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Ahead of the UN Summit for the Future, Oxfam calls for reform of the UN Security Council to stop the “Permanent Five” from being their own “judge and jury.” ...

In The Black Image in the White Mind, historian George M. Frederickson writes, “In the years immediately before and after 1800, white Americans often ...

If Nigerian government truly has no business in aviation business, why did the Minister of Aviation travel to faraway Seattle ...

Palestinian history and geography were scrubbed from Israeli schoolbooks a decade ago, scholar Nurit Peled-Elhanan says.

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A 52-year-old yacht skipper convicted of smuggling two Ethiopian refugees into Cayman ... very sad case whichever way you look at it and the judge has approached it in exactly the correct way.

If I don’t do it, nobody will. My work, my job - I built it myself.” Anton Hur, 43, exuded confidence when he spoke of his ...

(Bloomberg) -- Ethiopia’s state-owned airline suspended flights to Eritrea, the latest sign of a deterioration in relations between the two neighboring countries. Most Read from Bloomberg How ...

ATLANTA — At the Marcus Tower of Piedmont Atlanta Hospital on Labor Day, Dr. Jim Kauten had pre-op all to himself. A few moments of quiet time to look back on his most recent operations, halfway ...

Retired Judge Nancy Gertner, who was a federal trial judge in Massachusetts; legal ethics scholars Stephen Gillers and James J. Sample, and the government watchdog group known as Citizens for ...