One of the most horrifying episodes in American history spanned just two days in 1921, when at least 300 people were killed on May 31 and June 1. The attack by a white mob on African Americans in Greenwood became known as the Tulsa Race Massacre. 

Colombia’s government and its largest remaining guerrilla group have agreed to a six-month ceasefire at talks in Cuba, in the latest attempt to resolve a conflict dating back to the 1960s. 

Dozens of sexual assaults in Sudan reported by various organizations are estimated to be only the tip of the iceberg, while attacks perpetrated by paramilitaries and criminal gangs go unpunished. 

"We have a pandemic of suicidal thoughts in Afghanistan. The situation is the worst ever, and the world rarely thinks or talks about it," says psychologist Dr. Amal. 

Dr. Amal tells us she received 170 calls for help within two days of the announcement that women would be banned from universities. Now she gets roughly 7 to 10 new calls for help every day. Most of her patients are girls and young women. 

Clashes erupted after Israeli forces raided the city of Ramallah in the West Bank early on Thursday in what the military said was an operation to demolish the house of a Palestinian accused of a Jerusalem double-bombing last year. 

Russian attacks on medical facilities in Ukraine made 2022 the most violent year in a decade for hospitals and health workers operating in conflict zones, according to a new report by a coalition of humanitarian organizations. 

Fourteen members of the VDP volunteer militia and four soldiers died on Monday in Sawenga in central-eastern Burkina, while five were wounded, a source said. 

Another security source confirmed the toll, saying that the clash occurred during an operation to secure the area, and that "more than 50 terrorists were neutralized" in an airborne counter-attack. 

Mexican prosecutors are investigating what President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador called the “execution” of five men in an incident that has sparked outrage from human rights observers. 

Nearly 80 girls were poisoned and hospitalized in two separate attacks at their primary schools in northern Afghanistan, a local education official said on Sunday. 

It is thought to be the first time this kind of assault has happened since the Taliban swept to power in August 2021 and began their crackdown on the rights and freedoms of Afghan women and girls. 

Police in Hong Kong have detained dozens of people on charges of “breaching public peace,” including a woman carrying a bouquet of flowers and a man who held a candle, during a crackdown on commemorations of the anniversary of the bloodshed in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.