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13 uur geleden
On Russia, Congress shows remarkable unity
The Russia controversy – one of the most defining issues of Donald Trump’s young presidency – has been cast by the president and his supporters as a political “witch hunt,” even while Democrats are all over the news talk shows raising serious questions. In fact, observers say this Congress is the most hard-line against Moscow in decades, mostly because Russia’s attempts to influence last year’s US elections are too close to home to ignore.
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In Ethiopia, model drought defenses are put to the test
Battered by drought and civil wars, more than 20 million people from Yemen to Tanzania are at risk of starvation in what aid workers call the largest humanitarian crisis since World War II. But over the past two decades, nations that once produced searing images of famine's toll have moved to thwart it by strengthening community resilience.
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How do refugee students make the jump to Germany's universities?
Mohamad Taqi Sohrabi has had to fight for an education his entire life. An Afghan refugee born in Iran, Mr.
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Hot new job for middle-class students: manual labor
Hunched over their workspaces in a dusty, sunlit room in the North Bennett Street School in Boston’s North End, Jim Reid-Cunningham’s bookbinding workshop seems grateful for an interruption. “It’s like getting behind in the pitch count in baseball,” Mr.
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The bounty that heads off famine
With more than 20 million people at risk of famine, or what is called the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II, a Monitor series this week looks at some of the successes in avoiding famine. More deeply, the articles probe what it means to build “resilience” among people in dealing with a disaster.
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Trump’s Putin meeting showed his naiveté, Trump-Putin’s meeting was overhyped, Why Donald Trump Jr.’s handling of Russian lawyer meeting makes things worse, Has China lost its
“The meeting between US president Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit .
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Readers write: Mealtime memories, prisoner empathy, violence and children
Recommended: Could you pass a US citizenship test? Thank you for your June 12 cover story, “The story of prisoner 5770102414.” Being a published writer, activist, and advocate against the mistreatment of prisoners, I could only empathize with Prontip Mankong.
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A disrupter at UN: Can new chief shake up bureaucracy to speed progress?
António Guterres, who took over as United Nations secretary-general early this year, acknowledges that the world community has made encouraging progress in improving people’s lives over recent decades. Just two examples: Malaysia reduced poverty levels from about half the population in 1970 to under 10 percent in 2000, allowing the country to focus on eradicating poverty by 2030.
4 dagen geleden
Why there's a growing rift in GOP over law and order
Should the government be able to take your money, car, or home without charging you with a crime? For Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a “careful” plan to expand the program amounts to a common-sense approach to support law enforcement and weaken criminal enterprises amid an uptick in violent crime. Democrats and civil libertarians have been up in arms about such seizures for years, saying the war-on-drugs-era tactic creates absurd incentives that have in many cases resulted in “policing for profit,” as the nonprofit Institute for Justice found in a 2015 report.
4 dagen geleden
Poland’s challenge to EU values
Poland’s government, elected in 2015 with 38 percent of the vote, appears to be on a collision course with the European Union. In fact, the EU has few tools to punish Poland.
4 dagen geleden
For homeless girls in Queens, Girl Scout Troop 6000 offers an anchor
When New York City Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer attended the first meeting of Girl Scout Troop 6000 in his district in western Queens this year, he hadn’t the slightest inkling that the small group of girls gathering here would have such an impact. As the first Girl Scout troop in New York designed specifically for homeless girls, Troop 6000 began in February as a modest effort to help bring a sense of community, if not normalcy, to the 100 families with children who lived in a Queens shelter in his district.
5 dagen geleden
She arrived in Senegal 43 years ago – and is still there working on social issues
Two dozen men and women sit in a circle at a training center an hour’s drive from Dakar, the capital of Senegal. Molly Melching, a warm American in her 60s who is Tostan’s founder and chief executive officer, listens attentively as participants share what they’ve learned.
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Presidential persuasion: So far, the art eludes Trump
Until this week Mr. Trump has been largely uninvolved in twisting arms and bending ears in an effort to win passage of the bill.
5 dagen geleden
How Western spyware is being used to shut down Arab rights activists
For veteran observers in the Middle East, the revelation that the UAE may have hacked Qatar’s news agency, precipitating a diplomatic crisis, reads like the rejected plot for a spy novel. Since the so-called Arab Spring erupted seven years ago, Arab governments and intelligence agencies have spent millions on spyware, malware, and hacking services, experts and analysts say, waging a digital battle against their own citizens.
5 dagen geleden
Curiosity as an answer for income inequality
The closer that economists look at the rise in income inequality, the more they find one cause may be the rise of another inequality: The least productive firms are falling further behind the most productive firms. This point was made in a recent study spanning 16 countries by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
6 dagen geleden
GOP challenge: Reforming widely accepted 'safety net' programs
The failure of Senate Republicans to close ranks on health-care reform this week put on display an old* challenge: How conservatives can reform social safety-net programs when there’s a growing acceptance of them – even among Republican voters. Chastened, some GOP lawmakers are talking about trying to pivot toward other issues, notably tax reform, after failing to fulfill their pledge to “repeal and replace” Obamacare.
6 dagen geleden
Why the ground shifts under Venezuela's regime
A defining moment in a democratic revolution often comes when a nation’s poor, who mostly focus on daily material needs, join others in demanding basic rights and uncorrupted governance. The Trump administration, for example, promises stiff sanctions if President Nicolás Maduro goes ahead with a pre-rigged vote on July 30 to rewrite the Constitution and move Venezuela closer toward Cuba-style authoritarian rule.
6 dagen geleden
How cities are helping former felons get stable housing
Six months after Ronald Doyle’s wife died, he got a call from a public housing officer. When Doyle got out of jail in 1991 after serving eight years, he had nowhere to go.
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Europe's female imams challenge Muslim patriarchy – and fight Islamophobia
Sherin Khankan flits about the window sills, lighting wicks and placing bouquets of roses in just the right places as she prepares for Friday prayers. “We being women, there is always a lot of candles and flowers,” explains Denmark’s first female imam, placing a single, deep pink rose in a potted plant.
7 dagen geleden
Health care: The promise, and the perils, of bipartisanship
Last week, when Republican senators unveiled their revised health-care plan, reporters swamped Sen. Susan Collins (R) of Maine, a crucial swing vote, pinning her against a wall just steps from the Capitol’s magnificent rotunda.
7 dagen geleden
South Carolina debuts a new model for bridging racial divides
In this rural outpost, a pair of statues collectively called “Reconciliation” celebrate two natives and their heritage, Jewish financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch and African-American baseball legend Larry Doby. The South’s stubborn, persistent history of racial prejudice is usually not so brazenly on display.
7 dagen geleden
What is stirring Russia's youth to rally around Alexei Navalny?
Mikhail Aralov is part of the biggest political surprise of the year in Russia. The 22-year-old student chef has been arrested twice in the past few months for taking part in unsanctioned protest rallies called by Russian opposition leader and aspiring presidential contender Alexei Navalny.
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A toehold for peace in Syria
After six years of war, nearly 100,000 civilian casualties, and rising foreign intervention, Syria has a toehold on peace. A truce in southwest Syria, brokered on July 7 by Russia and the United States, has so far held up.
7 dagen geleden
Shawarma – São Paulo-style? Syrian refugees expand Brazilian palates
On a Thursday morning in São Paulo, Ghazal Baranbo prepares for the lunch rush at her family’s restaurant. It looks like a well-choreographed dance, but four years ago Ms.
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Will Trump restrain steel imports? Why many in GOP wouldn’t mind if he did
The US and China have just wrapped up 100 days of trade talks, heading into a bilateral economic summit this week in Washington. A month later, the administration will begin renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with partners Canada and Mexico.
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In post-quake rebuilding, Kathmandu's carvers reclaim a fading heritage
In a workshop inside the courtyard of a 17th century palace, Tirtha Ram Shilpakar is surrounded by the guts of ancient temples. The floor around him is crowded with carved wooden beams, ashy with age.
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Creating a virtuous circle with North Korea
With tensions rising over North Korea’s nuclear and missile capabilities, the new president of South Korea, Moon Jae-in, has decided to break what he calls “the vicious circle of military escalation.” On July 17, his government offered to hold talks with North Korea.
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Why 'son et lumiere' shows light up French summer nights
Forget fireworks, we had son et lumiere. While the French are old hands at the artform, I had the feeling we were experiencing the show “Chroma” the way spectators did in 1952, when Paul Robert-Houdin officially introduced them to a brand new genre.
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Meet a new breed of prosecutor
The new district attorney of Nueces County here in southern Texas strolls around the local courthouse in cowboy boots and a crisp brown suit with a colorful tie and matching pocket square, flashing a smile as wide as the grille of the Ford F-350 pickup he drives. On the surface, at least, he seems like your stereotypical Texas lawman – the one you see in movies wearing a Stetson and spurs, delivering justice and colloquial quips through a lip filled with chewing tobacco.
2 weken geleden
Best lesson yet in Brazil's anti-graft drive
President Barack Obama once called him “the most popular politician on earth.” But on July 12, former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sentenced to almost a decade in prison for corruption and money laundering.
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Year after coup, Turkey's opposition on the march. But to where?
The crowd stretched for as far as the eye could see: the biggest flag-waving Turkish opposition rally in many years. Recommended: Think you know Turkey? This weekend marks the anniversary of last summer’s failed coup, which Erdoğan’s critics say he has exploited to fortify his own power and crack down on a range of political opponents.
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For foreign reporters, hints of 'House of Cards' in 'Trump Show'
Sean Spicer, Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller – all are players in the palace intrigue known as the Trump White House. Chinese TV viewers can’t get enough of the “Trump Show,” and coverage of America in general, says Ching-Yi Chang, White House correspondent for Shanghai Media Group.
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Why GOP Senate bill is ‘a long way’ from repealing Obamacare
For more than seven years, Republicans have been promising voters they would repeal the Affordable Care Act. The bill that GOP senators unveiled on Thursday is very far from that promise.
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Using a taro patch in Hawaii, this couple teaches the islands’ values to youths
Dean and Michele Wilhelm dreamed of creating a space that was restorative and healing for others, perhaps a relaxing retreat for couples or families. At the same time, the family began cultivating community through gatherings around traditional Hawaiian food.
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The Trump-Macron partnership
Just six months in office, President Trump has made no less than three trips to Europe, a place he calls a “blessing to the world” – that is, if it remains “strong.” During his travels he found a kindred spirit in another new and mold-breaking president, France’s Emmanuel Macron, who warned this month that Europe has “lost its way” and needs new leaders to revive it.
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Do the US and Russia need clearer rules of engagement?
Barely a week after Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin sat down in a bid to iron out their differences, the effort appears to be in tatters. The scandal engulfing Mr.
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Trump is back in Europe: Why the continent suddenly appeals
Who would have imagined that Donald Trump would take such a liking to Europe – and especially to France – so quickly in his presidency? Recommended: More than Bastille, Bonaparte, and brie: Test your knowledge of France with our quiz! Ostensibly, Mr. Trump and first lady Melania Trump are on a quick, barely 48-hour jaunt to the City of Lights because France’s new president, Emmanuel Macron, invited them to take part in the July 14 Bastille Day festivities – the pièce de résistance of which is a grand military parade down the Champs-Élysées.
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Among Trump voters, is there a tipping point?
With his rainbow-tinted aviator glasses, Vietnam-era jungle hat, and American flag sleeveless shirt, Tony Carraway comes across as a patriot the way Hunter S. Thompson did: on his own terms, without apology.
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To handle Trump's isolationism, France takes lessons from World War I
When President Trump takes his place as guest of honor on the Champs-Élysées on Friday to watch US soldiers march with French troops in France’s annual Bastille Day parade, he will be commemorating the 100th anniversary of the US entering World War I. As war was raging in Europe, American President Woodrow Wilson was campaigning for reelection with the slogan, “He Kept us out of War/ America First.
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Amid the rubble of Mosul, Iraqi reconciliation
When the Islamic State (ISIS) took over Iraq’s second-largest city in 2014, one of its first acts was to kill any Mosul resident who merely thought differently. Now compare that murder spree on individual conscience to what has happened since Iraqi forces recaptured the city on July 9.
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For conservatives, health-care choice trumps other values
In the crucible that Republicans hope will produce a health-care bill acceptable to at least 50 GOP senators, key conservative values – such as more choice in health plans – are taking precedence over another important one: attitudes about government spending. Or at least that’s the case with a much-talked-about change to the bill offered by conservative Sen.
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Trump’s challenges escalate, with son’s email of ‘love’ for Russia help
With those three words, Donald Trump Jr. has brought the Justice Department’s investigation of Russian meddling into the 2016 election deep into the immediate Trump family, setting up a possible confrontation with the FBI and perhaps altering the future course of President Trump’s administration.
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How Germany forced a rethink of Africa
Just this year alone, an estimated 400,000 African migrants will flee to Germany, escaping either war or poverty, or both. Among the 400,000 companies in Germany, fewer than 1,000 invest in Africa, officials found.
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Black gun owners ask: Does the Second Amendment apply to us?
Like many African-Americans of his generation, Phillip Smith, a Californian in his 50s, grew up without a gun in the house. To his parents, gun ownership was not just politically unacceptable, but morally wrong – a fount, if anything, of trouble and tragedy.
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Mary Matsuda Gruenewald graduates from her high school – 74 years later
For 17-year-old Mary Matsuda, a not-so-funny thing happened on the way to her high-school graduation: Soldiers armed with rifles and bayonets forced Mary to abandon her family’s strawberry farm here, weeks before the end of her junior year at Vashon High. It was May 16, 1942, and Mary, along with 110 others of Japanese-American ancestry, were “evacuated” from this bucolic agricultural island in the Puget Sound and sent to the first of four federal internment camps Mary would inhabit during World War II.
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Economy races ahead, but land-rights turmoil leaves many Cambodians behind
Some have left behind drought-affected farmland in the country’s south. The 4.
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Sanction China over North Korea? The cases for and against
Nikki Haley, President Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, says the United States has “multiple forms” of “ammunition” yet to use to stop North Korea’s growing nuclear and ballistic missile threats. If Beijing fails to do more – or undermines international efforts to do more – to pressure Pyongyang over its advancing nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile programs, the US will slap the Chinese with punitive economic measures to encourage them to reconsider.
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In G20 protests, a different view of extremism
Recent years have seen rallies by Pegida, an anti-Islamic group, gain momentum, as well as those by the far-right Alternative for Germany party. Germany, it seemed, was in the midst of its own turn to the populist right.
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One test case for voter fraud vs. suppression: Sparta, Ga
In 2014, the rodent chewed some wires at the historic Hancock County, Ga., courthouse in downtown Sparta, Ga.
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How Cleveland has become a leader in trying to eradicate human trafficking
On a recent Friday night, when many women are spending time with their families or going to see a rom-com movie with friends, Renee Jones is doing something unconventional. It is to connect with them in hopes of preventing the women from falling prey to one of the country’s most overlooked but vexing social problems: sex trafficking.
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