The family of former British Prime Minister William Gladstone apologised for their family’s slave-owning past in Guyana on Friday, as descendants of slaves have sought reparations. William’s father, John, was one of the largest slaveholders in the parts of the Caribbean colonised by...
Since Russia’s full-fledged invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the geopolitics of the Middle East and North Africa region have been undergoing an upheaval. Most recently, Palestine has applied to join the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) bloc alongside seven Arab countries:...
An American man stolen at birth by hospital workers in the Chilean capital, Santiago, has been reunited with his mother after 42 years. “Hola, Mama,” Jimmy Lippert Thyden uttered on Sunday in what seemed like an unremarkable greeting between mother and son. Forty-two years ago, hospital...
The Panama Canal is in dire straits. A severe drought is impeding navigation of the United States-dominated trade artery that bisects the isthmus of Panama in Central America. As of mid-August, more than 200 ships were stuck at the canal. On August 26, CNN warned that...
The Haitian National Police have announced they will open an investigation into those responsible for a deadly incident on Saturday, when a church leader led parishioners on an armed protest through a gang-controlled area of the capital Port-au-Prince. Frantz Elbé, the director general of...
