Zimbabwe Court Upholds Presidential Election Of Emmerson Mnangagwa
Emmerson Mnangagwa will be Zimbabwe’s next president, and only the second person to hold that title since the nation’s independence in 1980. The constitutional court unanimously upheld his narrow victory in last month’s election.
Why The Number Of U.S. Visas Being Granted To Afghan And Iraqi Allies Are Down
During the many years U.S. troops have been fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, locals have served as interpreters and other capacities at considerable risk to themselves and their families. Many have been allowed to immigrate to the U.S., but the Trump …
Secretary Of State Mike Pompeo’s North Korea Trip Gets Cancelled
President Trump canceled Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s upcoming trip to North Korea, tweeting that “we are not making sufficient progress with respect to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.”
A Brief Reunion And A Heartbreaking Final Goodbye For A Separated Korean Family
Families from South and North Korea met in North Korea this week for family reunions after a three year hiatus.
A Lot Has Changed In Ireland Since The Last Time A Pope Visited
NPR’s Ailsa Chang speaks with Irish journalist Paddy Agnew about the mood in Ireland ahead of Pope Francis’ visit this weekend.
On Harvey anniversary, why some Texans say they may never return home
Corpus Christi isn’t one of America’s biggest cities, but it’s bigger than a room at the Super 8 motel in Weslaco, which is why Gina Rodriguez liked it – at least at first. In the roughly nine months she’s lived there since hurricane Harvey destroyed …
How to help China’s Muslims
One of the best opportunities for Islamic extremists to gain recruits is to point to the persecution of peaceful Muslims, whether by non-Muslims or other Muslims. When Myanmar’s military forced 700,000 Rohingya Muslims out of the country a year ago, f…
How ‘heritage players’ are helping Vietnam build a basketball culture
One day in 1980, a teenager named Nelson Nguyen left home in Da Nang, Vietnam. From Hong Kong he went to Washington, D.C., and then to southern California, where he raised a son who loved basketball. Horace Nguyen grew up watching Kobe Bryant lead th…
As news of China’s camps for Uyghurs spreads, it meets with muted criticism
Eighteen months after the first reports of a major security crackdown in China’s frontier province of Xinjiang, the world is beginning to wake up to evidence that Beijing is forcing an unprecedented detention and indoctrination program on the Muslim Uy…
In a distressed part of Ohio, one way people are finding work – and purpose
Mike Oates’s life was tracing the same downward trajectory of so many ensnared in the opioid crisis. One person who does understand that is Jeffrey Magada, a Youngstown, Ohio, native who says he, too, could have ended up on the wrong track if he hadn’…
Australia’s Prime Minister Is Ousted By His Own Party
Malcolm Turnbull was booted from his seat by conservatives in his party. It’s the 4th time in the past decade that the country has removed its prime minister. Scott Morrison is the new prime minister.
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