News articles in simplified English for language learners
Daylight saving time starts in March when people turn clocks forward by an hour, so that they can enjoy more daylight during the summer months. In Europe people set their clocks forward an hour on the last weekend in March and set them back on the last weekend in October.North America starts two weeks earlier … Read more
A new study shows that students around the world lost about a third of a year’s learning due to the COVID pandemic. 15 countries were examined, most of them in the western world. During the first year of the pandemic, many countries closed down their schools in an attempt to slow the spreading of the … Read more
Almost 7 million Venezuelan citizens have left their country since the economic and political collapse in 2014. It has been the second-largest refugee crisis in the world. Most of the migrants are fleeing to neighbouring countries, especially Columbia. Thousands are taking dangerous routes through the jungle north to Panama, but many of them do not … Read more
Women around the world are protesting against the Iranian government. The demonstrations began after Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish woman, died after she had been arrested by Iran’s morality police. Amini was tortured and beaten to death because she refused to cover her hair with a headscarf. In the past days, women all over the world, … Read more