fail
Well over a million refugees fled from Rwanda into Uganda, Tanzania, and Zaire at the end of the Rwandan Genocide. The U.S. kept the U.N. from sending in troops to stop the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. The most widespread and pernicious myth about the Rwandan Genocide may be that the US stood by and let it […]
For two months now, the United States and other Western countries, backing Israel, have been talking about “the day after” in Gaza. They have rejected Israeli assertions that the Israeli army will remain in control of the Strip and pointed to the Palestinian Authority (PA) as their preferred political actor to take over governance once […]
One morning in 2019, an auditor arrived at a meatpacking plant in rural Minnesota. He was there on behalf of the national drugstore chain Walgreens to ensure that the factory, which made the company’s house brand of beef jerky, was safe and free of labor abuses. He ran through a checklist of hundreds of possible […]
Associated PressAug 26, 2023, 02:49 PM ET1 Minute Read BUDAPEST, Hungary — The American women’s 4×400 relay team was disqualified from the preliminary round at the world championships Saturday after its third and fourth runners in the four-lap race bungled the baton exchange. Quanera Hayes missed on several attempts to hand the stick to anchor […]
Comment on this storyComment The U.S. intelligence community assesses that Ukraine’s counteroffensive will fail to reach the key southeastern city of Melitopol, people familiar with the classified forecast told The Washington Post, a finding that, should it prove correct, would mean Kyiv won’t fulfill its principal objective of severing Russia’s land bridge to Crimea in […]
African leaders have left two days of meetings with Russian president Vladimir Putin with little to show for their requests to resume a deal that kept grain flowing from Ukraine and to find a path to end the war there. Mr Putin, in a press conference late on Saturday following the Russia-Africa summit, said Russia’s […]
The wave of recent anti-LGBTQ+ bills launched across the US is unlikely to win over voters who are more focused on practical issues such as health and education, said a trailblazing Black gay lawmaker. The spate of conservative-sponsored legislation from anti-trans bills to drag queen bans is a backlash against the growing support for LGBTQ+ […]
March 11 (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp are weighing the creation of a fund that would allow regulators to backstop more deposits at banks that run into trouble in the wake of Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse, Bloomberg News
Agathe Demarais, global forecasting director of the Economist Intelligence Unit, speaks with host David Dollar about her new book, Backfire: How Sanctions Reshape the World Against U.S. Interests (Columbia University Press). In the conversation, Demarais explains why sanctions are a frequent U.S. foreign policy tool, why sanctions are often ineffective, and how China and Russia […]
The new year is an opportunity to experience inner reflection and self-awareness beyond shedding the predictable stubborn holiday weight which now has the gym more crowded than usual. CNBC spoke with David Schwarzbach, Chief Financial Officer of Yelp, who said in part, “I’ve discovered that taking a few minutes after lunch to weed the garden […]