In 1949 my great-grandparents fled a war-torn Ukraine. When I first heard about the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, I couldn’t believe that so little had changed in over 70 years.
The Russian war against Ukraine is having worldwide consequences. In March, the United Nations food chief David Beasley warned that the war has created “a catastrophe on top of a catastrophe” and that we may see a food crisis worse than during the Second World War.
More than 3.9 million refugees from Syria have crossed the borders into countries including Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Turkey and Egypt, looking for safety. More than half of these refugees are children.
Lily Hindy is deputy director of Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues, which trains journalists in first aid tactics.
March 2013 marks 10 years of America’s war in Iraq.
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In April 2010, President Obama met with leaders from 46 other countries to discuss the danger of nuclear weapons.
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Howard Zinn, a historian, died on January 27. Zinn was famous for writing about ordinary people who fought against injustice.
