The National Migration Institute plans to investigate the cause of a deadly fire that broke out at a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on Monday evening and killed at least 39 detainees, according to NBC News. Local authorities, migrants at the facility, and outside experts have provided differing
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Sustained combat between the M23 movement and government forces in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has displaced over 300,000 people from their homes throughout the province of North Kivu this past month, as reported by the United Nations refugee agency. Fueled by lingering geopolitical and ethnic tensions from
The Spanish Parliament has approved a package of history-making legislation to grant paid medical leave for menstruating people that suffer from debilitating period pain, marking Spain as the first country in Europe to advance menstrual equity laws of this nature, according to Politico. The package also included provisions to expand
Residents of East Palestine, Ohio are exercising vigilance in the wake of a major train derailment that caused a chemical spill in the region earlier this month. CBS News reports that on February 3rd, 38 cars of a Norfolk Southern train transporting combustible materials from Illinois to Pennsylvania derailed and
The International Criminal Court has announced plans to move forward with its investigation of atrocities committed in the Philippine government’s “war on drugs” under former President Rodrigo Duterte, according to Human Rights Watch. Duterte, the former mayor of Davao who rose to power in 2016 on a fierce campaign that
After 11 months of unrepentant attacks on Ukrainian soil, the Russian army has seen a gradual depletion of its Iskander ballistic missiles, and has resorted to utilizing the S-300 and S-400 anti-aircraft systems, according to a report from Reuters. Yurii Inhat, a spokesperson for the Air Force Command of the
Following talks at last weekend’s Ramstein Summit, German defense officials agreed to send Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine as of Wednesday, according to a report from The Guardian. The recent conference, which brought together the U.S. and other allies to negotiate a supportive strategy against Russia’s war of aggression,
