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Ukrainian officials say Russia has bombed a school with 400 people sheltering inside
There was no immediate word on casualties from the reported strike on the art school situated in the embattled port city of Mariupol.
(Image credit: Felipe Dana/AP)
First Person: From Gaza to the Red Planet
Loay Elbasyouni is a Palestinian electrical engineer on the NASA team that designed Ingenuity, an innovative robotic helicopter that landed on Mars in 2021. He talks to UN News about his journey, from a UN-run school in the Gaza strip, to the US space agency.
Read the full story, “First Person: From Gaza to the Red Planet”, on globalissues.org →
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Her brother was killed in Ukraine. She says his family is still waiting for answers
The family of Jimmy Hill, the U.S. citizen killed in Ukraine this week, doesn’t know what happened to his body and where his remains are now.
(Image credit: Katya Hill)
Informal Workers Face Up to the Crisis in Latin America
CARACAS, Mar 18 (IPS) – Doris Martínez was a cook in a Venezuelan restaurant that closed its doors; she emigrated to Colombia, got sick from working long hours standing in front of a stove, and returned to her country where, together with her husband and children, she runs a busy fast food kiosk on a road in Valles del Tuy, near the Venezuelan capital.
Read the full story, “Informal Workers Face Up to the Crisis in Latin America”, on globalissues.org →
After 10 years fighting in the bush – it’s time to go home
Foreign combatants with armed groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) can find it hard to return home once they decide to stop fighting. The UN Mission in the country (MONUSCO) is helping them to demobilize, and adjust to a new life.
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