Month: October 2021

For months, the poverty-stricken Caribbean nation has been battling a surge in gang violence and kidnappings.

British tabloids said the prince was “channeling James Bond” with his green velvet jacket at the Earthshot awards.

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday that Russia is also suspending the operations of NATO’s information office and its liaison in Moscow.

The Army general helped guide the U.S. military to victory in the 1991 Persian Gulf War as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He struggled a decade later over the U.S. invasion of Iraq as a beleaguered secretary of state under President George W. Bush.

After days of heavy rain, one local told a Kerala news channel, “the house has gone. Children have gone.”

Prostitution has boomed in Spain since the practice was decriminalized in 1995, but critics say the lack of regulation hurts sex workers.

In the advanced economies of the West, there are signs that worker power is growing. Elsewhere, the story is more uneven and certainly more grim.

It doesn’t help that ex-yakuza members carry the symbols of their former life: Full-body tattoos and missing pinkies.

The country’s growth was weighed down in the third quarter, hitting the slowest rate in a year.

For for Haitians rich and poor, gang violence and kidnappings for ransom have become a tragically common facet of life.