Briefing: Why violence has flared in Nicaragua
For years, as neighbors like Honduras and Guatemala experienced political unrest and violence, Nicaragua was a bastion of calm. In April, President Daniel Ortega proposed a social security reform that would have increased employee payments but decreas…
Will Trump Raise North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses At Summit With Kim Jong Un?
“No regime has oppressed its own citizens more totally or brutally than the cruel dictatorship of North Korea,” the president said in January. Human rights experts fear the issue may be ignored now.
How one woman in East Boston shares climate know-how with coastal neighbors
On a sunny day in early May, Magdalena Ayed leans over the fence above a pebbly beach in East Boston. It looks much better than it did just weeks before, says Ms. Ayed, when she and a group of volunteers cleaned the area of trash. “If we didn’t advoc…
Trump Meets With Japanese Prime Minister Ahead Of North Korea Summit
President Trump hosted Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the White House Thursday. It was chance for Abe to urge Trump to keep insisting that North Korea dismantle its nuclear weapons program.
Push to enshrine consent in rape laws encounters obstacles in Europe
The case went public just as the sex assault claims came showering down on Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, and France, like much of the West, was in the throes of the #MeToo movement. Many in France were outraged. President Emmanuel Macron promised…
Guatemala Volcano Toll Reaches 99, As Officials Point Fingers Over Evacuation
Rescue workers faced toxic gases as they tried to recover bodies. Meanwhile, opposition politicians accused government agencies of not doing enough to warn about Sunday’s eruption.
U.S. Evacuates Multiple Employees From Chinese Consulate Over Mysterious Illness
The State Department would not say how many employees were sent home from the consulate in Guangzhou. In May, one employee was confirmed as having symptoms similar to the mysterious attacks in Cuba.
Why Grandmothers May Hold The Key To Human Evolution
What made us human might have had less to do with men out hunting, and a lot more to do with what was going on at home — with grandmas and babies.
Meanwhile in … Kazakhstan, an entire nation is struggling to learn a new alphabet
Kazakhstan, an entire nation is struggling to learn a new alphabet. Last year Kazakhstan’s president-for-life Nursultan Nazarbayev decreed that the country would switch from reliance on Cyrillic script to use of Latin script – a move away from the cou…
German Lawmakers Call For U.S. Ambassador To Be Replaced
The new U.S. ambassador to Germany has been upsetting his hosts with his instructions to German business leaders to stop trading with Iran and his announced support for right-wing populists in Europe.
Morning News Brief
Japan’s prime minister meets with President Trump to discuss North Korea. And, the U.S. ambassador to Germany raises eyebrows for his support of the far right.
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