Moni moni onse! Welcome to Thursday, where Hawaii’s Maui island battles destructive wildfires as the death toll continues to rise, Ecuador declares a state of emergency after presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio is shot dead less than two weeks before the election and a Caribbean duo is s.
Almost a year ago, a well-known lawyer, Yevhenia Zakrevska, became a soldier in the Ukrainian Armed Forces and now serves as an aerial reconnaissance officer. She tells her story to Ukrainian news media Livy Bereg.
On this day between in 1945, following the events of World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States, Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom, and Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union met to discuss the postwar reorganization of a war-torn Europe.
Before heading to South Sudan to continue his highly anticipated trip to Africa, the pontiff was in the Democratic Republic of Congo where he delivered a powerful speech, in a country where 40 million Catholics live.
By Published Feb. 22. Updated Feb. 22 at 9:39 am A woman lays flowers at the memorial to the Heavenly Hundred in remembrance of the people killed in the EuroMaidan Revolution in Kyiv on Feb. 18, 2021. Photo by
Oleg Petrasiuk
It is seven years since the worst day of bloodshed on Maidan left 49 activists dead and over 150 injured. Three of the only five men whose trial over the killings on Feb. 20, 2014, are now in hiding, with the trial of the remaining two men only just beginning again. On Feb. 17, Ukraine’s parliament finally voted in its first reading on a bill that could make it possible to try the three fugitives in absentia. According to lawyer Yevhenia Zakrevska, important amendments must still be made and soon to this bill if there is to be any chance of receiving a verdict regarding the only Berkut officers to have been put on trial over the killings that day.