At 90, Wole Soyinka Revisits His Younger, More Optimistic Self
With the Off Broadway debut of his 1958 play “The Swamp Dwellers,” the Nigerian Nobel laureate looks back on the writer he was when he was starting out.
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Is South Sudan heading to another civil war?
Tension is rising in South Sudan after the vice president is put under house arrest.
Mark Carney laments Canada’s lost friendship with US in visit to 9/11 town
Canadian PM makes remarks on visit to Newfoundland town that sheltered US airline passengers after attacks Mark Carney has lamented Canada’s lost friendship with the United States as he visited the town that sheltered thousands of stranded American airline passengers after the 9/11 attacks. The Canadian prime minister’s visit to Gander, Newfoundland, on the second…
In Canada, I saw how Trump is ripping North America apart – and how hard its bond will be to repair | Andy Beckett
With the US president now warmer to Moscow than to Ottawa, it’s little surprise Canadians I met rolled their eyes at the decline of the special relationship As wealthy but lightly defended countries have often learned, being close to a much more powerful state – geographically or diplomatically – can be a precarious existence. All…
U.S. Foreign Aid Cuts Hit Sudanese Refugees Fleeing Violence and Famine in Darfur
Just weeks after the U.S. government suspended its work in massive foreign aid cuts announced in January, humanitarians say much of the damage to critical programs has already been done.
As Trump pivots to Russia, allies weigh sharing less intel with U.S. — NBC News
As Trump pivots to Russia, allies weigh sharing less intel with U.S. NBC News ‘What the Hell Is Happening to Your Country?’ The Atlantic Why some U.S. allies are reassessing intelligence sharing with the Trump administration MSNBC America-Led Spy Network Risks Collapse Over Trump-Russia Fears Newsweek Trump deepens NATO’s crisis of trust on sharing intel POLITICO Europe
Arab leaders “aligned with Palestinians” on rebuilding Gaza
Arab Summit on Gaza
National Endowment for Democracy Sues Top Trump Aides Over Funding Freeze
The nonprofit has enjoyed bipartisan support since its founding in the Reagan era, but it finds itself under pressure from the Trump administration.
Top Trump allies hold secret talks with Zelenskyy’s Ukrainian opponents
KYIV — Four senior members of Donald Trump’s entourage have held secret discussions with some of Kyiv’s top political opponents to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, just as Washington aligns with Moscow in seeking to lever the Ukrainian president out of his job. The senior Trump allies held talks with Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, a remorselessly ambitious former…
Powell defends Fed’s authority over US monetary policy
Central bank chief vows to ‘focus on the data’ rather than get dragged into political debates