Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
WNN Breaking (WNN/RFE/RL) Berezniki, RUSSIAN FEDERATION, EASTERN EUROPE: A parole hearing in the Russian town of Berezniki has been adjourned until May 23 after a jailed member of the all-female opposition group Pussy Riot refused to continue taking part via video-link. At the hearing on May 22, the court rejected Maria Alyokhina’s requests to be [...]
WNN Breaking (WNN/RFE/RL) Moscow, RUSSIA, EAST ASIA: The case of the 2006 killing of Russia’s prominent investigative human rights journalist Anna Politkovskaya is set now to be tried again in court as more charges are being brought forward in the case. Russian Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said on May 21, 2013 that four men [...]
WNN Breaking (WNN) Moore, Oklahoma, UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: As a 2 mile wide tornado categorized as a F4 to F5, the most severe rating a tornado can achieve, barreled into the town of Moore, Oklahoma touched down yesterday afternoon at 2:46pm (U.S. Central Time Zone), it hit buildings and lives ten minutes later. Crews have [...]
WNN Breaking (WNN) Kabul, AFGHANISTAN, CENTRAL ASIA: Going in what numerous human rights organizations say is a ‘giant step backwards’, the Lower Afghan Parliament, known as the Wolesi Jirga, has been debating the reversal of a protective law called the EVAW – Elimination Against Violence Women Law. This Law was officially endorsed by Afghan President [...]
WNN Breaking (WNN) Guatemala City, GUATEMALA, SOUTH AMERICA: The long struggle for justice has come to a point of resolution this week as the High Impact Court “A”courtroom conviction of Guatemala’s ex-president General Efraín Ríos Montt brings relief and emotional tears to many of Guatemala’s indigenous. As judgement and sentencing was passed in the National [...]
