This is a special bonus episode of the When Life Gives You Parkinson’s podcast that we are calling Extra Dosage. Full episodes will be released every other Wednesday. In between, Niki and I will share new information, original interviews and extra material that provide more context to topics raised in the previous episodes of the podcast. […]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A Belgian judge has ordered the government to repatriate six children of Islamic State (IS) militants and their mothers who have been detained in a camp in Kurdish-controlled Syria, the national news agency Belga said on Wednesday. Tatiana Wielandt, 26, and Bouchra Abouallal, 25, both Belgian citizens, and their children have been […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday oversaw the successful test of a new Russian hypersonic missile system called Avangard which can carry nuclear and conventional warheads, the RIA news agency cited the Kremlin as saying. Putin remotely observed the test, which took place in the Russian Far East, from a Russian defense ministry […]

A crowd of mourners said goodbye to the 7-year-old Guatemalan migrant girl who died in U.S. custody this month, laying her to rest in a Christmas Day funeral that left her mother so crushed she could not bear to attend. Friends and family on Tuesday lowered the body of Jakelin Caal into a grave in […]

South Korean delegation to attend groundbreaking ceremony for reconnecting roads and railways across divided peninsula. A South Korean delegation has left for North Korea to attend a groundbreaking ceremony for reconnecting roads and railways across the divided peninsula despite stalled denuclearisation talks. A nine-car special train carrying some 100 South Koreans, including officials and five […]

Jakelin Caal buried on Christmas Day, more than two weeks after she died in US Border and Protection custody. San Antonio Secortez, Guatemala – Jakelin Caal was excited to go to the United States. The seven-year-old indigenous Q’eqchi’ girl told everyone in her small remote village in San San Antonio Secortez about the new life […]

Europe’s highest and most active volcano erupted in Italy just before Christmas, creating troubles for many locals and tourists in nearby areas. Amid the busy holiday season, Mount Etna’s eruption led to the closure of Catania airport on Sicily’s eastern coast because of the heavy ash that was sent into the sky. While the airport resumed […]

BEIRUT, Dec 25 (Reuters) – Syrian air defenses intercepted “hostile targets” near Damascus, Syrian state media reported on Tuesday. Loud explosions were heard in the Syrian capital, a Reuters witness said. “Our air defenses have intercepted a number of hostile targets near Damascus,” Syrian state TV said. The nature of the targets was not clear. Lebanese state-run […]

A Mexican governor and her senator husband were killed on Monday (December 24) in a helicopter crash near the city of Puebla in central Mexico, the government said, just days after she had taken office following a bitterly contested election. Martha Erika Alonso, a senior opposition figure and governor of the state of Puebla, died […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S.-led coalition in Syria conducted air strikes last week that destroyed facilities used by Islamic State, the coalition said on Tuesday, less than a week after President Donald Trump declared victory over the militant group and said he would withdraw U.S. troops from the war-torn country. The coalition said its attacks […]