International

Thousands of environmental activists paralyzed parts of central London by blocking Marble Arch, Oxford Circus, and Waterloo Bridge in a bid to force the government to do more to tackle climate change

Notre-Dame was in the midst of renovations, with some sections under scaffolding and bronze statues were removed last week for works

Beresheet would have been the first craft to land on the moon that was not the product of a government program

Eight years ago, Libya was the most advanced African country until Western intervention to topple Muammar Gaddafi plunged its territory into a civil war

The Obama administration decided not to prosecute WikiLeaks & Assange on the grounds that the website’s work was too similar to journalistic activities protected by the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of freedom of the press

A measles outbreak in Brooklyn, primarily among Orthodox Jewish children, prompted New York City to declare a public health emergency, requiring unvaccinated people in the affected areas to get the vaccine or face fines

Casualties were mounting in fighting that also threatens to disrupt oil supplies, fuel migration to Europe, and wreck U.N. plans for an election to end rivalries between parallel administrations in the country

Due to its strategic position, the region attracted the interest of Washington and private companies since the U.S. began its expansion to the west and the Monroe Doctrine was proclaimed in 1823

The northwest, including Idlib province and parts of Hama and Aleppo provinces, is home to about 3 million people, half of whom have already been internally displaced, the United Nations says

Facebook has been hit by a number of privacy-related issues, with the latest being a glitch that exposed passwords of millions of users stored in readable format within its internal systems to its employees