DHAKA (Reuters) – U.S. envoy Sam Brownback called on Thursday for the release of journalists jailed in Myanmar while covering the plight of ethnic Rohingya Muslims forced to flee a military crackdown. Brownback spoke in Bangladesh, where he was on … Continue reading
HAVANA — Through the Space Age, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Internet era, Cubans held one constant: A Castro ruled the nation. That is about to change. Raúl Castro, 86, is expected to step aside as Cuba’s president … Continue reading
Houston (AP) — Former first lady Barbara Bush is in “failing health” and won’t seek additional medical treatment, a Bush family spokesman said Sunday. “Following a recent series of hospitalizations, and after consulting her family and doctors, Mrs. Bush, now … Continue reading
President Donald Trump is leaning toward pardoning Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the former George W. Bush administration official who was caught up in the investigation into the leak of the identity of a CIA officer, according to a person familiar with … Continue reading
An international chemical weapons watchdog is preparing to send a team to Syria to investigate whether prohibited materials were used in an attack on a rebel enclave last weekend. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), an intergovernmental … Continue reading
The Music of Yungchen Lhamo: One Drop of Kindness Yungchen Lhamo, courtesy of the artist. Yungchen Lhamo is a renowned Tibetan singer who has performed in over 80 countries. Lhamo’s music is inspired by spirituality and Tibetan mantras, and has been met … Continue reading
The Hubble Space Telescope has broken yet another observing record: The famed observatory has found the most distant “ordinary” star ever observed, at an astounding 9 billion light-years from Earth — which means the light scientists see started traveling at … Continue reading
Trump declared there would be “NO MORE DACA DEAL,” referring to an Obama-era protection of millions of undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children, and called for congressional Republicans to pass tougher immigration policies because the U.S. … Continue reading
Reports from all major news outlets reveal important and disturbing developments in the arena of data harvesting and election interference on the part of the British firm Cambridge Analytica. News groups dedicated to President Trump’s misfortune present information with to … Continue reading
On Saturday, March 24 massive marches and protests worldwide brought attention to the challenges arising most particularly from the February, 14, Parkland, school shooting. BBC covers these protests primarily with a series of videos NPR reported on smaller counter protests … Continue reading