DRC Elections And The Fate Of The UN MONUSCO Mission – Analysis
By Wilder Alejandro Sanchez* The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) held long-awaited general elections on 30 December to replace President
By Wilder Alejandro Sanchez* The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) held long-awaited general elections on 30 December to replace President
After an 11-3-1 December, the Penguins kept rolling with a 3-1 start in January, including an impressive, 4-0 shutout over the Winnipeg Jets, one of the NHL’s best teams. Then they took off on a 1-3-1 road trip to end the unofficial first half of the season that left them with more questions than answers. […]
Aussie dollar continues to slide against the greenback.
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A group of high school students wearing “Make America Great Again” caps went from vilified to vindicated in the course of a weekend after a video of them apparently facing off with Native American activists in the nation’s capital went viral. “The honorable and tolerant students of Covington Catholic School came to DC to advocate...
The company, which has increased share in the local motorcycle market by 6-7% in the past nine months, said domestic business would get greater management attention.
Nearly 300 furloughed Department of Homeland Security employees are being called back to work amid the longest government shutdown in history.
“They lock us up, they shoot us down. Ain’t no justice in this town!” Black Lives Matters demonstrators shouted in sub-20 degree temperatures.
Shipping companies are starting to experiment with cleaner fuels and cutting-edge technologies. Here are some of the brave, new ideas in green shipping.
A search is underway for a light aircraft after it disappeared from radar near the Channel Islands on Monday evening.
Longer video casts new light on Native American taunting controversy New York Post
When video first emerged on Friday showing the confrontation between the Covington students and Native American activists, many were quick to assume the ...
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Australians Alex Hunt and James Pretto are leading the charge to be the first foreign multi-sport athletes to win the Kathmandu Coast to Coast longest day world Championship men’s event in 26 years.
Here are the top 10 business stories that made news on Monday
After dropping to a low of 1 degree, temperatures figure to moderate into the low 30s by Tuesday afternoon.
UP TO 40 Ministers will resign unless they are free to stop a No Deal next week – Amber Rudd has warned Theresa May. Sources yesterday revealed the pro-EU Work and Pensions Secretary has told the PM’s aides she faces ‘dozens’ of resignations unless they can back a radical cross-party Brexit plan. Under the proposal […]
Alice Thompson, a former senior adviser in Turnbull's office, took to social media to say she was not "just" running to ruin Mr Abbott's "mission to be leader".
Marathon talks to end a teachers' strike in America's second-largest school district were reportedly "making progress" Monday, but the strike will continue into its sixth day Tuesday, even if a deal is reached, union representatives said. Some 30,000 teachers in the Los Angeles school district walked off the job on Jan. 14, demanding higher pay, smaller class sizes and more support staff. Union leaders said even if the two sides reach an agreement before the start of the school day Tuesday, teachers... Читать дальше...
Officials said early in the morning an avalanche hit south Kashmir’s Qazigund region, which connects the Valley to Jammu and ultimately north India. No loss of life was reported in the incident.
"Bloomberg’s kind of money buys a lot of loyalty — or at least silence. Anyone else would be toast."
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The internal investigators tasked with keeping Uber safe were overworked, underpaid and at times emotionally traumatized as they struggled under the burden of nearly 1,200 cases every week, a confidential internal memo obtained by CNN says.
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FOR most of his career, Dominic Grieve has enthused about democratic “rules-based” systems, insisting that legal form, minted by elected authorities under the Crown and cobwebbed by time, was essential for political stability. You could say he quacked on about it, for there was something duck-like about this bespectacled lawyer’s metallic-sounding voice. Maybe his parents […]
One month since the start of the shutdown, the Trump 2020 campaign is chugging ahead with staffing and organization -- and even fundraised off the paralyzed federal government. But the shutdown may yet prove to be a drag on the campaign and help set the tone for the race, depending on how long it endures and how it gets resolved.