MOSCOW (AP) – Armenia and Azerbaijan say they have agreed on a ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh from Saturday afternoon. The foreign ministers of the countries said in a statement that the purpose of the ceasefire was to restore prisoners and restore the dead, adding that certain details would be agreed later. …
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OSLO (AP) – David Beasley, head of the UN World Food Program, told the Associated Press that his organization had become speechless by awarding the Nobel Peace Prize. “I think this is the first time in my life that I have been without words. I was just shocked and amazed, …
Read More »Remote learning begins in the virus-affected Philippines
MANILA, Philippines (AP) – Grade school and high school students in the Philippines began classes from home on Monday after a coronavirus epidemic forced remote-learning on an education system already struggling to fund schools. Distance education has been a rational nightmare for a long-time poverty-stricken Southeast Asian country that lacks …
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SARJAVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) – Dennis Zikik was on his daily video call with his parents in Bosnia early August when his father said he was probably coming down with a fever. Less than a month later, both of Zikik’s parents died, with the global toll of coronavirus epidemics rising to …
Read More »East Germany through the eyes of its filmmakers
Berlin (AP) – John F. When Kennedy saw communist East Germany on the Berlin Wall in 1963, the red curtain blocked the American president’s opinion through the Brandenburg Gate, accusing him of violating international agreements with the United States. “To prevent the rebirth of German militarism.” Documented by a Western …
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