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EU border agency says migrant arrivals in Greece drop 90 percent
The number of migrants arriving in Greece dropped 90 percent in April, EU border agency Frontex said on Friday, in a sign ...Top Lebanese Hezbollah military commander killed in Syria
Lebanese militant group Hezbollah announced on Friday that its top military commander had been killed in an attack in Syria in a ...Fighting erupts north of Aleppo as ceasefire expires
Syrian government forces battled rebels north of Aleppo on Thursday as a ceasefire expired in the city itself, the Syrian Observatory for ...Yes to assertive, no to aggressive
I teach and write in the field of Peace and Conflict Studies, with a special focus on ...Islamic State bombing of Shiite area in Baghdad kills 52
The Islamic State group said one of its suicide bombers carried out an attack near a market in Baghdad Wednesday, as officials ...Rodrigo Duterte wins Philippines presidential elections
Geraldine Roman on Tuesday celebrated overcoming "bigotry, hatred and discrimination" as results showed she had become the first transgender politician to win ...Obama to make historic Hiroshima visit, highlight nuclear security
U.S. President Barack Obama will visit Hiroshima later this month and become the first sitting U.S. president to do so since World ...Bangladesh hangs Islamist leader for rape and genocide in 1971 war
Bangladesh hanged Islamist party leader Motiur Rahman Nizami on Wednesday for genocide and other crimes committed during the 1971 war of independence ...Germany beats Slovakia 5-1, Danish player in hospital
Germany beat Slovakia 5-1 in Tuesday\'s action at the hockey world championship, which also saw Danish defenseman Jesper Jensen taken to hospital ...NASA says 1,284 new planets found by Kepler telescope
NASA announced Tuesday the discovery of 1,284 new planets outside our solar system, more than doubling the number of exoplanets found with ...




