Readers Write: USAID funding, Veterans Affairs
As someone with on-the-ground experience with USAID programs in Africa and Eastern Europe, I am appalled by the administration’s slash-and-burn approach to this critical piece our nation’s security ...
'We're pawns in a game': US aid workers left in limbo overseas as agency slashed
USAID foreign staff say in addition to feeling stranded, they also worry how their absences will harm the countries and ...
The fossil skull that rocked the world – 100 years later scientists are grappling with the Taung find’s complex colonial legacy
The international scientific community rebuffed this hypothesis. They were looking outside Africa for human origins and ...
Used as human shields, starved and under fire: The horrors people with disabilities face in Putin’s war
In the final part of our series on the plight of people with disabilities caught up in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Bel Trew speaks to a man who had only the use of one limb, his arm, about the ...
America Can’t Just Unpause USAID
Democratic lawmakers have started pushing back on the demolition of USAID. Yesterday, Brian Schatz, a Democratic senator from ...
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Gold Rush Gone Toxic - Illegal Mining in Tigray Endangers Lives, Environment As Authorities Turn a Blind Eye to Cyanide and Mercury Use
For centuries, artisanal gold miners in the Asgede district, located in the North Western Zone of the Tigray region, have used traditional tools for gold extraction. However, in recent years, this ...
Trump’s beef with the World Health Organization is personal
Trump has long charged that WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus covered up China’s responsibility for the Covid pandemic, and also aided Democrats who called Trump’s own move to shut the ...
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Tigray Military Forces - Partial Arbitrator of Conflict?
It's difficult to overstate the opportunism and ineptitude that serves as a unifying feature of Tigray's fractured leadership. Tigrayan politics is now composed exclusively of blood sports; every ...
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Commanders stun top-seeded Lions, head to first NFC title game in 33 years
The amazing rookie year of Jayden Daniels rolls on. And the star quarterback of the Washington Commanders has plenty of help. And now it’s on to the NFC championship game. Daniels was virtually ...
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Flouting the European Court of Human Rights and Bringing Domestic Courts to Heel
Türkiye’s refusal to implement the European Court’s judgments came to a head in February 2022 when ... and the candidates reported interviews of no more than two or three minutes with no ...