“They want to empty the country.” Sept. 20, 2015, Refugees wait at a bus terminal in Istanbul. Ahmet Sik / Getty Images ISTANBUL — The 53-year-old father of two was convinced that Bashar al-Assad wanted him to flee Syria. More than two years after he buried the bodies from a massacre in his village near…
Editor`s note: Christopher Santora worked as a prosecutor for the Special Court for Sierra Leone from 2002 to 2005 in cases against various faction leaders from the country’s 11-year war. He also served as prosecutor from 2007 to 2010 in The Hague, Netherlands, in the case against former Liberian President Charles Taylor, and was involved…
Luxury apartments in the hills above Place St Pierre overlook squalid tent camps. Below, a former sweatshop worker, Darline Charles, does her laundry. She says her family cannot afford to move to a new home costing $740 for half a year. PORT-AU-PRINCE // In the colonial-style French restaurant on Place Boyer in Pétionville, the duck…
At least 41 people have been killed and hundreds injured after suicide attacks in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore. Police have confirmed that at least two suicide bombers blew themselves up at a Sufi shrine in the centre of the city, and officials say the cause of a third blast is still being investigated….