UN: 20 million facing famine

The world faces the largest humanitarian crisis since the United Nations was founded in 1945 with more than 20 million people in four countries facing starvation and famine, the U.N. humanitarian chief said. Stephen O’Brien told the U.N. Security Council that “without collective and coordinated global efforts, people will simply starve to death” and “many…

Lavrov for 'true union' against ISIS

“Unprecedented terrorist aggression has been seen in Europe, the United States, and the countries that are our allies under the Collective Security Treaty Organisation in Asia – all this presents a serious threat to international security”, said Russian Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov addressing MunichSecurity conference. (The full text of the speech here: http://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/-/asset_publisher/cKNonkJE02Bw/content/id/2086892) Russian minister expressed concern…

Trump to sign refugees restrictions

  Today president Donald Trump is expected to sign executive orders starting onwards including a temporary ban for an indefinite period of  time for the most of the refugees and a suspension of visas for citizens of Syria and six other countries of Middle East and Africa, according to  congressional aides and Washington immigration experts….