Russia’s Multinational Military Exercise Last Week Was A Dry Run For Bigger War Games
The exercise, called “Peace Mission 2018,” included 3,000 troops from China, India, Pakistan and other countries. Next week’s war games are billed as the biggest Russian exercises since the Cold War.
Boruboru: South Sudan’s newest spectator sport is one for the girls
Replace them with three barefoot girls on a sandy pitch on the outskirts of South Sudan’s jumbled capital city. This is more like if dodgeball met gymnastics on the clay courts of the French Open, and then a couple of Major League Baseball pitchers sh…
U.K. Charges 2 Russians In Poison Attack On Former Spy
Scotland Yard says it has sufficient evidence to charge Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov in absentia with attempted murder over the poisonings in the city of Salisbury in March.
U.N. Diplomats Warn Fight For Syria’s Idlib Province Could Worsen
The U.N.’s senior envoys for Syria offer updates on their efforts to slow regime and Russian attacks on Idlib province before it becomes a disaster for the three million civilians there.
U.S. Secretaries Of Defense And State To Visit India
India is an important ally to the U.S., but the Trump administration has twice postponed high-level talks with the country over the past year — citing scheduling conflicts.
Labour Party To Adopt International Definition Of Anti-Semitism
Britain’s opposition Labour Party is trying to defuse widespread attacks from Jewish community leaders who’ve accused the party’s leader of being either anti-Semitic or tolerant of anti-Semitism.
Zalmay Khalilzad Appointed As U.S. Special Adviser To Afghanistan
The Afghan-born former diplomat served as U.S. ambassador in Kabul under President George W. Bush. In Afghanistan, views of Khalilzad are mixed, with some blaming him for many of the country’s woes.
15 Women Entrepreneurs From Saudi Arabia Visit U.S. To Develop Their Pitches
A Washington, D.C.-based tech incubator is hosting women entrepreneurs from Saudi Arabia who work on social problems through apps.
Anthropologist Mourns Loss Of His Work And History From Museum Fire In Brazil
Investigators are sifting through the remains of Brazil’s National Museum, after a massive fire Sunday. NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks with anthropologist Antonio Carlos de Souza Lima, who fears his research on Brazil’s indigenous cultures is gone.
At Kavanaugh hearings, questions of how much power a president should hold
In a life spent circling Capitol Hill, Judge Brett Kavanaugh has made a rare foray to the very top. Born and raised in the D.C. area, Judge Kavanaugh’s legal career has unfolded at the highest levels of the judicial and executive branches, from the ch…
Is Trump’s rewrite of NAFTA hurting a partnership?
When a North American trade agreement was first proposed under President Reagan, it was envisioned not just as a commercial pact among three countries but also as a strategic partnership. Perhaps most critically, the idea was to anchor a problematic M…
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