Huffington Post
Monday, September 8, 2014 - 06:13
As many headlines around the country focus on President Obama's moves in Iraq to contain the violence wreaked by Islamist militants, the news of U.S. airstrikes in Somalia this week targeting the leader of the extremist group al-Shabab may have seemed out of the blue. Yet the U.S. has quietly been building up a large counterterrorism operation in Africa in recent years.
Friday, August 8, 2014 - 07:01
Here are six issues brought into the spotlight as a result of the summit this week, reminding the world that things are improving for the people of Africa.
Wednesday, July 30, 2014 - 07:23
Alex Sánchez's life story offers a dramatic example of how U.S. policy has failed both in Central America and in its own communities of color for decades
Thursday, December 19, 2013 - 00:00
The liberal British publication chose "modest yet bold, liberal and fun-loving" Uruguay as its country of the year for 2013, heaping praise on the government of Jose "Pepe" Mujica for legalizing the production and sale of marijuana.
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 - 08:21
Indeed, days in which 40 people are killed have become so commonplace, Rao said, that they often don't draw anything more than a simple mention in a wire report.
Thursday, December 12, 2013 - 00:00
With Republicans assailing President Barack Obama for shaking the hand of Cuban leader Raul Castro at Nelson Mandela's funeral on Tuesday, Secretary of State John Kerry pushed back at a House hearing.
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 00:00
"Some of them were caught in the streets, with their children, and were sent to Haiti — like that, without anything."
Friday, October 25, 2013 - 08:32
Pirates attacked an oil supply vessel off the Nigerian coast and kidnapped the captain and chief engineer, both U.S. citizens, American officials said on Thursday as the Nigerian military ordered its Navy to rescue the men.
Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 00:00
The group urged the U.S. Congress to pass to legislation establishing a "robust" shield law that protects journalists from being forced to divulge their sources.
Friday, October 11, 2013 - 07:37
The title the widely distributed Agence France-Presse wire dispatch became inescapable, however often it may have appeared elsewhere with a different heading. "Kerry avoids criticizing crackdown in talks with Sudanese foreign minister" (e.g., the important online Arab news source Al-Arabiya, September 30, 2013). And indeed the most important news within the AFP account was both conspicuous -- and outrageous: "US Secretary of State John Kerry Monday met with his Sudanese counterpart Ali Karti in Washington but failed to repeat strong U.S. criticism of the deadly crackdown on protestors."