After democratic elections, protest and dialogue failed to resolve Venezuela’s political crisis, some international leaders proposed a more drastic measure to seek political change. David Smilde, Tulane University Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, who has led […]
We may never know the true number of persons enslaved today but sound estimates can help make sure they don’t remain invisible. By Monti Datta, University of Richmond Modern slavery is a crime against humanity. […]
Will China’s moon landing launch a new space race? What will China discover on the far side of the moon? BeeBright/Shutterstock.com Wendy Whitman Cobb, Cameron University China became the third country to land a probe […]
Allied Kurdish and Arab anti-Daesh forces claim to be making gains in a fresh offensive launched in the Aleppo province. A second round of an offensive by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance consisting […]
A new assassination of a Syrian anti-ISIS activist took place in Turkey on Sunday. Naji al-Jarf received an approval as of asylum in France and was about to move from the Middle East just the […]
Defense attorneys representing Guantanamo detainees are protesting that the pace in reviewing cases, remains too slow to meet Obama’s January 2017 deadline to close the prison that has been an icon of abuses in America’s […]
The fate of Raqqa, the de-facto capital of ISIS, has come under serious threat as one of the chief supply roads across the Euphrates has now been cut off by Kurdish-led forces Saturday. Several villages […]
Turkish society has been keeping silent about what happens in Kurdish towns, where Erdogan’s army and police are shelling residential areas, killing more civilians every week. Why do even Kurds in western Turkey appear so […]
By Carmen Russell-Sluchansky Victims of a Haiti cholera epidemic filed a lawsuit Wednesday demanding compensation from the United Nations over an outbreak that killed more than 8,300 people. The petition, filed on behalf of a sample […]
As Secretary of State John Kerry presses Israel and Palestine to revive their long-awaited peace talks, Ambassador Maen Areikat, the chief representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization to the U.S., remains cautiously optimistic about the […]
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