Credit to Author: Vladimir Putin, Russian President| Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2020 17:37:04 +0000
Fourth of five parts I WANT to show you another document — a transcript of Adolf Hitler’s conversation with Foreign Minister of Poland Jozef Beck on Jan. 5, 1939. This document is indicative. It is a sort of distillation of the joint policy of the German Reich and Poland on the eve of, in the […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Agence France-Presse| Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 16:33:43 +0000
CARCASSONNE, France: The plight of baby kangaroos and koalas orphaned by Australia’s bushfires has prompted a sewing frenzy in France, where an appeal for cloth pouches for the animals has reaped thousands of contributions. The call for international help was first issued by Australia’s Animal Rescue Collective Craft Guild and promptly shared by the Australian […]
Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 16:30:19 +0000
ATHENS: “I celebrated my seventh birthday inside the camp of Bergen-Belsen with a piece of bread and sticks for candles,” recalls 83-year-old Lola Angel, one of the few Greek Jews left to remember the horror of Nazi concentration camps. “I was just three when I had to hide,” says Nina Camhi, who is 80. “But […]
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Credit to Author: Agence France-Presse| Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 16:59:13 +0000
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Far from feeling the heat, President Donald Trump will be chilling in Davos, a fancy Swiss ski resort, when the Senate hears opening arguments in his impeachment trial next week. Trump is so confident that his Republican party majority will stay loyal that he sees no risk in jetting to Switzerland for the […]
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Credit to Author: Agence France-Presse| Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 16:56:19 +0000
KLANG, Malaysia: Scooping waste from a Malaysian river to stop it reaching the sea, a solar-powered barge named the “Interceptor” is the latest weapon in a global battle to rid the world’s waters of plastic. Trash is being dumped into seas and rivers in enormous quantities, polluting vital habitats, endangering a kaleidoscope of marine life […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Agence France-Presse| Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 16:45:19 +0000
BY Laure FILLON MADRID: The preservation of Earth’s pristine wildernesses and oceans, long treated as a separate issue to curbing climate change, is taking on more importance as scientists say they really need to go hand in hand. The year 2020 will be crucial as nations submit their commitments to the fight to curb global […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Agence France-Presse| Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 16:42:41 +0000
WASHINGTON, D.C.: United States officials announced a truce in the trade war with China with much fanfare, but economists and trade experts call it largely a victory for Beijing. After a dispute that raged for close to two years, with several fumbled efforts at a resolution, the US agreed to cancel planned tariffs and rollback […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Agence France-Presse| Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2019 16:21:27 +0000
LONDON: At a dingy office space in north London, around 60 labor activists busied themselves recently with the basics of modern campaigning before next week’s general election. Far from traditional door-to-door canvassing, they were deployed on social media — a fiercely contested, but little-regulated, battleground in British politics. “We’re mobilizing and persuading,” said Laura Parker, […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Agence France-Presse| Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2019 16:19:23 +0000
HONG KONG: Some of them have lost their jobs, suffered life-changing injuries and even fled overseas. But six months into Hong Kong’s demonstrations, pro-democracy protesters say they aren’t backing down. The unprecedented movement was born on June 9, when an estimated million people took to the streets to protest a proposed bill allowing extradition to […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Agence France-Presse| Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 16:19:02 +0000
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Nearly three months after he abruptly ended talks with the Taliban, President Donald Trump has given his blessing to fresh diplomacy, but major obstacles stand in the way of a deal to end the Afghanistan war. Chief among the questions is how to address the soaring violence in Afghanistan — which the Taliban […]
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