German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives at the Israeli embassy in Berlin to sign the book of condolence for Israeli ex-president Shimon Peres Sept. 30, 2016.
Hurricane Otto made landfall as a unsafe Category 2 hurricane on a sparsely populated stretch of Caribbean coast in Nicaragua Thursday, becoming the southernmost hurricane on record to hit Central America. A powerful hurricane churned toward Nicaragua and Costa Rica with...
Global concern has been growing over the fighting, after Damascus launched a ferocious assault in Aleppo last Tuesday, using air strikes, barrel bombs and artillery fire in a bid to recapture the east of the battered city.
Nearly three-quarters of state legislatures are in Republican hands, which demonstrates how risky partisan gerrymandering is to the continued viability of two-party democracy.
Yet despite hardship brought about by a U.S. economic embargo, Castro’s Cuba became a country renowned for high education standards and world-class doctors. Soler said she did not expect Fidel Castro’s death to change the human rights situation in Cuba.
In a blog post Saturday on the post-Castro era Piccone said, “A better approach for the incoming Trump administration would be to maintain President Obama’s policy of constructive engagement and work with the post-Castro leadership to protect USA national interests in...
President Raul Castro announced the news on national television. Alonso-Rodriguez’s mother died when he was young, and his father stayed behind with sisters and a grandmother who couldn’t leave.
Many retail trackers are now grouping the Saturday and Sunday between Thanksgiving-Black Friday and Cyber Monday as part of a five-day block for comparison purposes.
Canada appears unfazed by Donald Trump’s vow to immediately begin the process of pulling the United States out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership once he becomes president.