April 16: Aberri Eguna (“Fatherland Day”) in Basque Country
April 19, 1940: Indian Day in Brazil
April 23, 303: Catalonia: Sant Jordi’s Day
April 24, 1916: Proclamation of the Irish Republic
April 26, 1937: Bombing of Guernica, Basque Country
April 27, 1961: Sierra Leone Independence Day
April 27, 1960: Togo Independence Day
Disputed islands of the South China Sea
Haiti to rebuild National Palace smashed in 2010 earthquake
UN inaugurates water supply system in Haiti anti-cholera fight
A scandal of sexual abuse mars the U.N.’s exit from Haiti
With End of UN Mission Ahead, Haiti Seeks to Revive Its Military
Mongolia launches its first satellite
Mongolia Clears Hurdles Needed for $5.5 Billion IMF-Led Bailout
Montenegro is going to be Europe’s hottest new tourist destination — here’s why
Montenegro makes notable progress towards EU
Sixth False Bomb Report Alarms Montenegro Capital
Russian Media Paint Dark Picture of Montenegro
Anti-Semitic Incidents in Austria Rise Again, NGO says
‘Islamic’ kindergartens: Vienna’s Muslim preschools cause a stir in Austria
Austria calls for closure of Mediterranean migrant route
Switzerland is not manipulating its currency
Switzerland’s controversial Islamic leaders
IN PICS: Ten stunning images of Switzerland in spring
Geneva marches again – this time for science
Turkish obstruction keeps Armenian memorial in public eye
Cyprus and Austria sign MoU for co-operation in military matters
Cyprus evaluating implications of Turkish referendum results
Cyprus leaders meet in bid to revive stalled peace talks
Soros gets warm Brussels reception amid spat with Hungary
Slovenia ombudsman asks court to examine new migration law
Slovenian government seeks some supervision of central bank
Portugal Is a Keynesian Mirage
In Portugal, Drug Use Is Treated As A Medical Issue, Not A Crime
Inside the World’s first all-female special forces unit: Norway’s Jegertroppen
Norway’s oil problem sets election stage after spending binge
Kuwait quizzes IS suspect deported from Philippines
Kuwait is rich and advanced, but with a contradiction at its heart
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait signal likely extension of oil output cut
Kuwait’s most prominent opposition figure freed from prison
Sierra Leone News: Enslaved in Kuwait for 2 months… Victim reveals secrets
Kuwait study urges caps on number of expatriates
Brazilian tribal leader fronts global protests for land rights
Brazil’s Indigenous Leaders Convene To Shore Up Eroding Rights
Brazil: Official Report Links Human Tragedy of the Guarani Kaiowá to Agribusiness
Donald Trump to host Palestinian president next month
Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israel go on hunger strike
Israel rules out talks with Palestinian hunger striking inmates
Israel Orders Solitary Confinement for Hunger Strike Organiser
A Novel’s Role in Israeli-Palestinian Tensions
Jewish and Arab Israelis do not want to live in same neighborhoods
Israel ‘lobbying FIFA’ to prevent settlement teams’ ban
Iran vows ‘Death to Israel’ as it unveils its latest missiles during National Army Day
US Defense Secretary Reiterates Support for Israel
Secession of Caprivi from Namibia – 3d treason trial ends with 10-year jail term
Thousands March in Tizi Ouzzou for Independence of Kabylie from Algeria
Libya urges international ‘intervention’ to stave off civil war
Occupation No One Cares About: Morocco’s Continued Occupation of the Western Sahara
UN peacekeeping force in Western Sahara must urgently monitor human rights
Polisario Front accepts appointment of Horst Köhler as UN Personal Envoy for Western Sahara
My Stand On Nnamdi Kanu And Biafra, By Charly Boy
Biafra: Southern Cameroon Joins Secession Struggle
IPOB laments members’ disappearance, detention without trial
IPOB restructures, appoints new leaders for Biafra zones
12 Nigerian states Biafra agitators want
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 11 professors set to storm Washington DC for Biafra conference
Exiled Ethiopian athlete vows to protest Oromo killings at London Marathon
Oromo: Controversial Report on Protests Downplays Severity of Government Crackdown
Eritrea: Will the Dutch close the Eritrean embassy?
The famine the Eritrean government doesn’t want you to know about
Egypt to establish military base in Eritrea
Eritrea presses China for help on Security Council sanctions
Somaliland editor detained after trading himself for colleague’s freedom
Break Away Nation: How Somaliland Is Putting The Horn of Africa On The Map
Somaliland: A little goes a long way
Somaliland: no water, no school & no future!
Mali returns interim authorities to last northern cities
A guide to Barotseland Self-determination
Injustice against Barotse nationals escalates as Magistrate Milumbe sees opportunity to cash-in
Batwa: Denied Land Ownership in Burundi
Somali national stadium still a military base, CAF President to the rescue
Ex-Zimbabwe PM and Veep hint of alliance to unseat Mugabe in 2018
Zimbabwe at 37: We are ‘masters of our own destiny’ – Mugabe
Zimbabwe is 37 years old, opposition “commemorate and not celebrate”
UN alarmed by Burundi militia chants to ‘impregnate or kill’ opponents
Gambia to do away with iconic glass marbles for ballot papers
Gambia’s first visually impaired female MP
C.A.R holds unprecedented disarmament talks with rebel groups
South Sudan takes first steps to a new constitution
Somalia: Roadside bomb kills 8 in Puntland
Czech court bars Uber in country’s second-largest city
Two weeks after float, Czech crown falls back to former cap level
China Bans ‘Extreme’ Islamic Baby Names Among Xinjiang’s Uyghurs
Uyghur Village Cadre Dismissed For Holding Islamic Wedding Vows at Home
Businesses eye tie-ups between Xinjiang and Singapore
‘Domestic burden’ holding young Indigenous women back from school
Private schools push for separate Indigenous campuses to cash in on federal funds
Indigenous translations go online as reform talks end
In Macedonia, anti-press rhetoric leaves journalists feeling vulnerable
The real story about the Republic of Macedonia
Suspect in foiled French election attack also sought by Belgium
Belgium’s ‘fairytale’ bluebell forest victim of own beauty
Finland’s Green Party And Nuclear Power — Really?
Finland is experiencing an increasing drain of elite brains
Rauma in the spotlight: city celebrates 575 years as Finland turns 100
Finland has a nascent ‘jihadist underworld’
How Finland could be a smoke-free country by 2030
Hybrid war in the High North: Finland responds to the Russian threat
Russian language losing its position around the world
The largest international technical cyber defence exercise in the world takes place next week
Influx of ‘red capital’ raises fears for editorial independence in Hong Kong media
CCP puts separatist activities in HK, Taiwan on national security agenda
Two unfinished tasks for independence advocate Peng Ming-min
Taiwan return of China dissident seen as bid for better ties
Independence advocate honored with Tainan park
Chiang Kai-shek statue on Yangminshan beheaded
Ai Weiwei questions HK autonomy after being denied bank account by HSBC
Belarus orphanage children found on brink of starvation
Between East and West: what’s next for Belarus?
Stanislau Shushkevich: Lukashenka Is Losing Power
Serbian president lobbies Russia, Belarus for supply of S-300s long range missiles
Serbia’s Post-Election Protests Broaden, but Can They Make a Difference?
Fresh claims of Azerbaijan vote-rigging at European human rights body
Taekwondo champion fights gender inequality in Azerbaijan
Authorities in Azerbaijan use jail, militia to stifle protest movement
Azerbaijan To Provide Georgia With Alternative To Russian Gas In 2017
Ukraine’s mission to UN tells about massive human rights violations in Crimea, Donbas
Russia turns Crimea into largest military base in the world – Poroshenko
Occupying authorities not to unban Crimean Tatars’ Mejlis – Russian media
Russian prosecutor demands 17 years for Crimean Tatar political prisoner Ruslan Zeytullaev
Putin’s Crimean hostage Ruslan Zeytullaev has been on hunger strike for NINETEEN DAYS
Crimean woman abducted and taken to interrogation with a bag on her head
How Russia fights religious ‘dissidents’ in occupied Crimea
In Russia rallies held in support of Crimean Tatars
“Putin friends” from EU attending business forum in Russian-occupied Crimea
Occupants “erase” Crimean Tatars from history of Crimea
Crimean Tatars: UN Court Reiterates Condemnation of Illegal Occupation of Crimean Peninsula
Tortured to Death for Defending Ukraine’s Flag and Ukrainian Unity
First casualties of OSCE mission in Donbas: land mine blast kills one, injures another
Poroshenko asks Tillerson to revisit UN peacekeepers deployment in Donbas after OSCE incident
Putin follows Hitler and Stalin in seeking to repress Jehovah’s Witnesses
20 Ukrainian soldiers to undergo treatment in Hungary
Crimintern: How the Kremlin uses Russia’s criminal networks in Europe
Moscow reacts to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan switching from Cyrillic with hysterics
Road Rage: How a New Tax Has Turned Dagestan’s Truckers Into Russia’s Most Stoic Protesters
The latest protest Moscow is trying to ignore: Thousands of angry truckers
State of counter-terror operation imposed in two districts in Russia’s Dagestan
Number of Russian citizens fighting for ISIS in Syria up dramatically in last year
In macho Chechnya, being gay is an act of intolerable rebellion
‘They want to exterminate us’, says Chechen gay man
Chechnya’s President Claims He Is Under “Attack” as Journalists Flee for Their Lives
Thousands of Slovaks protest corruption, demand ouster of PM Fico’s ally
Tajikistan Opens A New Chapter: No Books Allowed In Or Out Without Approval
Tajikistan’s Economy: Any Light at the End of the Tunnel?
Is Tajikistan’s Most Famous Militant Gulmurod Khalimov Dead?
Luxembourg to Launch a Fund Offering Financial Support for Space Resources Industry
Economic Recovery and Confronting Corruption in Kyrgyzstan
Activists ramp up pressure on Lebanon’s rape law
Lebanon rape law: Wedding dresses hang in Beirut sea front protest
Lebanon army kills wanted IS militant in raid
Catalan politicians declare commitment to independence referendum
Catalan government to call the referendum and apply its results, despite Spain’s threats
Catalonia to declare independence if Spain blocks the referendum, warns Catalan VP
British MPs, diplomats and journalists debate Catalonia’s independence roadmap at Westminster
Newcomers Dominate Bulgaria’s New Parliament
Bulgaria stops five Germans on way to Syria to join militant groups
Did Cornish voters for Brexit just kill off their own language?
U.K. Prime Minister Calls For Early Election
How an early election makes Scottish independence more likely
Nicola Sturgeon calls on Scotland to reinforce her mandate for indyref2 in the upcoming election
Nicola Sturgeon: Tory attempt to block indyref2 will ‘crumble to dust’ if SNP win election
Yes2 relaunches as aYe Scotland ahead of new #ScotRef campaign
SNP in Falkirk are telling their voters to pick pro-indy Green candidates as their next preferences
NEPA urges public to change habits as Jamaica observes Earth Day
Jamaica urged to take bold steps with ganja
Little taste for EU membership in Iceland
Icelanders Seek to Keep Their Language Alive and Out of ‘the Latin Bin’
Can Iran stop Iraqi Kurdistan independence?
Only Israel will recognize independent Kurdistan now, top Shiite leader
German foreign minister meets Kurdistan leaders in Iraq
What is next on Erdogan’s Kurdish agenda?
Turkish-backed rebels attack Kurdish forces in northern Syria
Turkish warplanes bomb Kurdistan border areas for third day
Kurdish parties come together to set date for independence referendum
Kurdish Iranian parties discuss creating a democratic front
Science confirms the incredible story of Lithuania’s Holocaust escape tunnel
The art of action: meet the artist who walked across Moldova in search of cultural identity
EU Warns Moldova To Honor Trade Pact As President Looks To Russia
Moldova complains about ASF threat from Ukraine
Moldovan court sentences “raider” Platon in connection to $1bn bank fraud
No candidates nominated for vote on Albania’s president
India’s Tibet Game Tests Beijing
Beijing renamed places in Arunachal Pradesh because of Dalai Lama’s Tawang visit
Exile: A Record Of The Early Years Of Exile Tibet
Tibetan monk released after three years in prison
Politics of Reincarnation: India, China, and the Dalai Lama
The night my father escaped Tibet
Tibetan Culture Immersion Summer Program in India for Tibetan Youths
Hollywood Shunning Richard Gere For Supporting Tibet Implies Chinese Factor There
5 Tibetans arrested in Kardze after self immolation by Tibetan
Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act introduced in the US
Russian Soldier Stabbed To Death In Armenia
Sarkisian Promises ‘Radical Changes’ In Armenia
Elections in Armenia: ‘A New Beginning,’ but Highway Robbery Prevents ‘a Just Armenia’
West Papuan independence leader to visit NZ
Denmark to contest UK efforts to ‘take back control’ of fisheries
Revolting scenes in Danish soccer derby as Brondby fans throw dead rats at Copenhagen
Despite Withdrawing From Denmark, Uber Is Bullish on Its Future in Europe
Denmark sees surge in number of poor
Singapore raises voice against rising protectionism
Younger Singaporeans choose YouTube over TV
Tomorrow’s Cities: Singapore’s plans for a smart nation
New Zealand tightens immigration rules in ‘Kiwi-first’ crackdown
Puha & Pakeha brings Maori flavour to the streets
The phrase ‘Māori tribal elite’ really tells you something – about the person using it
Kosovo citizen indicted for alleged war crimes in 1999
Thaçi: Albanians to unite if EU closes door to Kosovo
Three Yezidi girls freed from Mosul
Helping traumatized Yazidi refugees requires a different kind of care
Yazidi survivors ring in new year and new life
We Yazidis understand the forces of hatred that threaten civilisation
Yazidis who fled Isis live in limbo in Turkish refugee camps
Barzani stresses unity in Yezidi new year message
Islamic State holding more than 3400 Yazidis since 2014: Kurdish official
Yezidi commander resigns from PUK, founds new party
On Yezidi New Year, SRSG Kubiš Remembers Victims, Calls for Release of Yezidis Held by Daesh
Armenia’s President congratulates Yezidi community on New Year
Sweden mulls sovereign wealth fund as government debt keeps falling
15 movies that will help you discover Sweden
Women around the world: Latvia
ETA Still Wants Independent Basque Nation After Disarming
Basque separatist group launches internal debate after disarmament move
PNV leader proposes Gibraltar co-sovereignty as a model for Madrid – Basque Country relationship
Hopes for peace in the Basque Country, writes Gerry Adams
Local exhibit in Boise, Idaho, will commemorate 80th anniversary of Gernika bombing
The Basque Experience: Analysis of Post-Conflict Context, Reconciliation, and Cultural Reflection
Grant Provides Path to Nursing for American Indian Students at Cal State San Marcos
In The 1920s, A Community Conspired To Kill Native Americans For Their Oil Money
Photographer Captured Changing Lives of His People
Indigenous Scholars Endorse D.C. March for Science
Cherokee Nation Sues Walmart, Drug Companies Over Opioids
Athletics, reconciliation to come together at North American Indigenous Games, July 16-23
New health research centre to focus on Indigenous, mental health issues
Brexit has returned Irish unity to political agenda – O’Neill
Breandán Mac Cionnaith: Irish unity not a case of ‘changing one flag for another’
Has Theresa May turned her back on Northern Ireland?
General Election 2017: Polls at awkward times for Northern Ireland tend to make things worse
May’s election call ‘shows disinterest and disdain for Northern Ireland’
Irish Citizens Assembly votes to mandate Oireachtas to legislate for abortion
Brian Feeney: Arlene Foster’s Irish Language gesture too little too late
DUP’s Arlene Foster to meet Irish Language groups ‘as soon as possible’
`One for me, one for you’ comfort zone risks obscuring Irish language debate
After Mt Everest, Adivasi girl sets her goals high
Land issues continue to haunt Adivasis
Tatarstan Names An Ethnic Russian As Prime Minister
Georgia: Lavrov’s Abkhazia Visit To Shore Up ‘Illusion’ Of Legitimacy
Georgia and Ukraine share agenda on de-occupation
Did a Welsh Prince Reach the New World Before Columbus?
Wales faces a “epoch defining election”
Yes Cymru: Why do you want an Independent Wales?
Faroe Islands resume search for oil riches
Initiation of criminal case against ex-head of Russia’s Mari El Republic Markelov appealed
Albino girl known as Snow White becomes as internet sensation in Siberia
Greece blows EU-IMF bailout targets away with strong budget performance
Greece’s refugee children learn the hard way
Students build bridges with Native Hawaiian youth on spring break exchange
This Indigenous Man Couldn’t Check In To His Flight Because He Used His Tribal Name
Balochistan: Over 100 people arrested during military offensives in Bolan and Panjgur
Chittagong Hill Tracts: Student Dies Following Brutal Torture by Bangladeshi Army