Armenia
“Each year on this day, we remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from ever again occurring.” - US President Joe Biden.
This is big for Armenia and very delicate for US-Turkey relations. US President Joe Biden has formally recognized the massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during World War I as genocide. Much more detail in this Al Jazeera piece here.
Iraq
Terrible story out of Iraq. At least 23 people were killed by a fire that broke out in a hospital treating COVID-19 patients in Baghdad. More detail from the BBC here.
India
The world cannot stand by and watch this happen. Read about the horror that is unfolding in the Times of India, the Hindu, the NY Times, the AP, and Al Jazeera.