Xi, Modi and Putin attend SCO summit: What’s on the agenda? The two-day summit aims to promote a vision of a multipolar world and mutual trade ties amid Trump’s unilateral policies. Chinese President Xi Jinping, his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have arrived in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek for the…
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0 claims checkedIt has become fashionable among African commentators to dismiss Christianity as an alien, European tool of oppression that destroyed a supposedly flawless pre-colonial African heritage. This…
More Mail Ballots Are Arriving Late This Cycle, and They’re Getting Tossed State officials say they worry about the Postal Service’s ability to deliver votes this fall.
Busi Mavuso, chief executive of Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA), which represents the interests of big business, has criticised the “strategic partnership” aimed at deepening economic ties…
A U.N. committee said countries are legally obliged to consider reparations for the transatlantic slave trade and take other measures to address the enduring legacy of racial discrimination it says…
The British Museum privately hosted the Donald Trump-supporting tech billionaire Peter Thiel in the exhibition space of the Bayeux tapestry earlier this month, the Guardian understands. The museum’s…
The death toll in last week’s devastating flooding in Nepal has risen to 903 people, officials said Monday, as the number of those listed as missing nearly doubled to 4,247. Among the missing are 592…
Iceland has voted against reopening EU membership talks, with 52.8 percent rejecting the government's proposal. This comes as the EU wants to expand and strengthen unity.
Some 90 years after the death of the last documented thylacine – better known as the Tasmanian tiger – the species remains a global symbol of human-made extinction. The carnivorous marsupial fell…