Ian Penny, World & Nation Editor
• February 12, 2016
Columbia
The Constitutional Court of Colombia made a ruling prohibiting mining operations and petroleum projects from the country’s paramos regions. Paramos are moorland ecosystems typically found...
The dogs and cats are gone. Now residents of the besieged Syrian town of Madaya are surviving on boiled water and tea leaves.
Since 2011, the Middle Eastern nation has gone from mild protests to a war-torn...
Canada
Canada’s recently elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will face a major political decision on whether or not to bail out Bombardier, Inc., a multinational transportation company based in...
The refugee crisis is a perpetual crisis. As long as there has been conflict, there have been refugees. I myself am the child of refugees, their first, born in a country right across the river from the...
On Sept. 1, Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris tweeted his plan to aid the refugees in Syria.
“Greece or Italy sell me an island,” tweeted Sawiris. “I’ll call it ‘Independence’ and host...
By now, we have all seen the pictures of Syrian refugees fleeing a civil war that has displaced more people than the entire population of North Carolina. And yet, as much as we want to help, it can feel...
Thousands are stuck in overcrowded refugee camps with nowhere to go. Conditions are unsanitary, unheated, and inhumane.
The refugee crisis in Europe has become a significant international problem that...
Europe
In Iceland, France and other countries around the world, families are opening their doors to thousands of refugee families. The migrants are coming from countries like Syria, Afghanistan, Eritrea...
On Wednesday, Sept. 10, President Barack Obama gave a speech on his plans to eradicate the threat of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
The president’s plan is a nice idea. For many Americans, it...
