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The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti, one of the world’s longest-running such deployments and the only one in the Americas, will end in a few months, but not before reckoning with a fresh scandal.
A UN battalion of Nepalese peacekeepers i...
DATE: Apr 18, 2017
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When a front-runner in France’s impending presidential election obliterates history by denying the country’s well-documented complicity in deporting tens of thousands of French and foreign Jews to Nazi death camps, it is clear that something sinister...
DATE: Apr 17, 2017
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A House Intelligence Committee hearing on Monday produced the remarkable spectacle of FBI director James Comey publicly testifying that there was “no information that supports” tweets by Donald Trump alleging wiretapping of his New York headquarters ...
DATE: Mar 22, 2017
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When it comes to understanding the Republican obsession to undo Obamacare, this number is about all you need to know: 24 million. That is how many people would lose coverage under the GOP’s supposedly choice-enhancing, access-increasing replacement p...
DATE: Mar 15, 2017
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On the last day of 2016, the Catholic Church announced a remarkable political breakthrough in Congo, a sprawling country nearly the size of Western Europe that for decades has been a fount of war and instability in Africa. Joseph Kabila, the country’...
DATE: Mar 13, 2017
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Maryland’s roll-out of its medical cannabis programme has been called “one of the slowest” of the 28 states that allow it. Approved about three years ago, the programme is still months away from being operational — and that may be optimistic.
The le...
DATE: Mar 06, 2017
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The nature of Donald Trump’s relationship with Russia is the most obscure and disturbing aspect of his coming presidency. Trump’s unwavering defence of Vladimir Putin’s regime against all criticism, and his breezy dismissals of a CIA finding that Mos...
DATE: Dec 14, 2016
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More than six years after a brigade of United Nations peacekeepers from Nepal introduced cholera in Haiti, triggering an epidemic that has killed at least 10,000 and sickened many more, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon has finally uttered the word “s...
DATE: Dec 14, 2016
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The self-defeating passivity of President Barack Obama’s policies in the Middle East may have reached its apotheosis this month at a National Security Council meeting that he chaired.
On the table were options for responding to the bloody and crimina...
DATE: Oct 31, 2016
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Jérémie. Les Cayes. Port-Salut. These Haitian towns, blasted and shattered by Hurricane Matthew, are unfamiliar to most Americans. Yet now that the storm has left them desperate for relief, it is to Americans they are turning for the most basic forms...
DATE: Oct 18, 2016
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