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How 360,000 Haitians Wound Up Living in Empty Lots and Crowded Schools
New York Times· 6 days agoHundreds of thousands of people in Haiti are on the run from rampant gang violence and have...
A View from Cairo | Yasmin El-Rifae
New York Review of Books· 2 days agoIn February satellite photographs of a new militarized buffer zone along Egypt’s border with Gaza circulated online. The Egyptian government was silent...
Five world records that are under threat at Olympic Games Paris 2024
Olympics.com· 4 days agoFrom the pool to the track, and up the climbing wall, Olympics.com explores five world records that...
Flooding in Americas, brutal heat in Asia and Africa: Extreme weather across the globe
Los Angeles Times· 7 days agoVoters and politicians in the world’s largest election, in India, are fainting in temperatures as...
Tunisia: The migration trap
Al Jazeera· 4 days agoSub-Saharan African refugees and migrants fleeing northwards away from war, conflict and corrupt governments are ending up trapped in Tunisia, unable to...
Protesters' concern for Palestinian victims seems selective
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo News· 5 days agoBefore the Supreme Court Citizens United ruling, our government mostly worked. Dark money means we have no way to know who...Ukrainians, not to mention the juntas, generals ...
Who’s Afraid of the International Criminal Court?
The Nation· 5 days agoFor the past two weeks, the Israeli government has been warning that the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague is about to file war crimes...
Biden Offers to Turn U.S. Military Personnel Into Saudi Royal Bodyguards
The American Conservative· 5 days agoPresident Joe Biden has made a habit of putting the interest of foreign governments before that of...
Strategic amnesia, political division put U.S. in extreme jeopardy
UPI· 3 days agoTo put it charitably, America and Americans suffer from a bad case of strategic amnesia. This...
U.K. Begins Rwanda Deportations
Foreign Policy Magazine· 6 days agoThe highlights this week: A rare cyclone hits Kenya and Tanzania, Togo accused of election-rigging, and Congo’s country music cowboys. If you would like...