Posts Tagged ‘Families’
Hong Kong Questions Families Of Wanted Activists
Activist Dennis Kwok is among eight fugitives wanted in Hong Kong AFP Hong Kong national security police detained four people Thursday, including the brother of prominent activist Dennis Kwok — one of eight fugitives with bounties on their heads for allegedly breaching national security. The city’s national security department “took away two men and two…
Read MoreFamilies, Rescuers Search For Victims Of India’s Worst Train Crash In Decades
A drone view shows derailed coaches after trains collided in Balasore district in the eastern state of Odisha, India, June 3, 2023. Reuters Rescuers and families searched through mangled train carriages on Sunday for more victims of India’s worst rail crash in more than two decades with signal failure emerging as the likely cause. At…
Read MoreSusanne Skov Diemer, Expert in Security Reveals Her 5-Step Plan to Ensure Families’ Safety in a Crisis
Susanne Skov Diemer, a security and intelligence expert has unveiled her 5-step approach to keeping families safe in a crisis. Her framework consists of a systematic model, which equips people with the vital skills and practical guidelines to mitigate the effects of any dangerous situation or attack. Susanne Skov Diemer Susanne Skov Diemer Amid the…
Read More‘Overwhelming’: S. Korean Families’ Grief Compounded By Online Abuse
The parents of 24-year-old Lee Ji-han have been the target of online abuse since he was killed in a crowd crush last year AFP First, he lost his child in Seoul’s Halloween crowd crush. Then came a torrent of online abuse, upending his family’s once-private life and making him an internet-wide figure of mockery. In…
Read MoreIn Peru’s Andes, Scars Of Protest Deaths Cut Deep As Families Seek Justice
Vera Lucia Samillan sits while her brother Juan holds a photo of their brother Marco Antonio Samillan, one of the victims killed during latest protests against Peru’s President Dina Boluarte, as they mourn at their home in Juliaca, in Puno region, Peru February 8, 2023. Reuters In a small bedroom of a tin-roofed home in…
Read MoreInflation Metrics Paint Scary Picture For Struggling Families
Prices on goods went on a steady climb following the end of restrictions from the COVID-19 Pandemic, as supply chains became bottle-necked and demand grew for items that had been less sought after during lockdowns. While some prices have begun to ease, many things are still at record highs, and families are continuing to feel…
Read MoreFamilies Seek Closure For Wartime Mine Disaster As Japan-Korea Relations Thaw
Jeon Seok-ho, whose father died in the Chosei Coal Mine Disaster of 1942, poses for a photograph with old photos taken when he was an elementary school student in Japan, at his home in Daegu, South Korea, February 4, 2023. Reuters On a crisp February morning, four elderly Korean men bowed their heads towards Japan’s…
Read MoreIsrael Announces Measures Against ‘Families Of Terrorists’
Israeli security forces stand guard near the site of an attack carried out on Saturday in Silwan, near Jerusalem’s Old City AFP The Israeli security cabinet has announced measures to revoke certain rights of “terrorist families” after two attacks in east Jerusalem, one of which killed seven people near a synagogue. Ahead of the meeting…
Read More‘Unbearable Distress’: Families Rally For French Held In Iran
Benjamin Briere was arrested in May 2020 and sentenced to eight years and eight months in prison for spying AFP Families of the French citizens jailed in Iran held a rally Saturday to urge their release, warning that their loved ones were enduring a sometimes years-long “inhuman” psychological and physical ordeal. Seven French citizens are…
Read MoreFamilies Of Boeing MAX Crash Victims Set To Face Company In US Court
Forensics experts shown in March 2019 combing through the crash site of an Ethiopian Airlines operated Boeing 737 MAX aircraft AFP Relatives of passengers who died in the twin Boeing 737 MAX crashes are scheduled to confront the airplane maker Thursday in a US court, some four years after the tragedies in Ethiopia and Indonesia.…
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