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A bronze statue of former US President Theodore Roosevelt is to be removed amid an ongoing backlash against symbols of racial bias and imperialism. The statue outside the American Museum of Natural History in New York shows Roosevelt on horseback flanked by a Native American man and an African man. ...

The end of Leopold II PARIS—The first week of European and particularly French and Francophone protests in the wake of the U.S. Black Lives Matter movement concerned parallel police actions against French minorities, including the death on his birthday of Adama Traoré, held down by three French cops in a ...

THE question whether the provinces, or the federating units as they should be called, are subordinate to the federation has been at the centre of one of the more important public debates going on these days. The issue touches upon matters related not only to the future of the federation ...

Modern states, for sure, are presumed to conduct their business by following well-established traditions, rules and clearly defined timelines. Since the advent of 2020, however, Pakistan has also been dealing with a panic-stirring pandemic like the rest of the world. It demands total attention of our rulers. In these extra-ordinary ...

ISLAMABAD: The government on Friday proposed Rs1.29 trillion defence allocation for next fiscal year representing an 11.8 per cent increase over the original allocation for the outgoing year. Federal Minister for Industries Hammad Azhar, while presenting the budget in the National Assembly, said “defence and internal security have been given ...

Inside Boris Johnson’s government, senior officials are exhausted, demoralized and starting to despair. Their dreams of reshaping Britain for a bright post-Brexit world have been blown off course by coronavirus. With more than 41,000 Covid-19 deaths in the U.K., Johnson has presided over the worst record in the world after ...

“Today, injustice goes with a certain stride, The oppressors move in for ten thousand years. Force sounds certain: it will stay the way it is. No voice resounds except the voice of the rulers And on the markets, exploitation says it out loud: I am only just beginning. But of ...

reception of doctors from the Henry Reeve Contingent working in the Italian city of Crema, upon their arrival at Havana’s José Martí International Airport, June 8, 2020 ai. u june 9, 2020 10:06:36 Dear compatriots, welcome to the homeland! Just a few minutes ago, members of the task force that ...

Nationwide uprising against racist police violence Up to 50 million jobless and 100,000 people dead – those are the backdrops to what has become a national uprising against police violence targeting Black people in America. The recent murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police has triggered incredible developments that have ...

Trump’s withdrawal of U.S. funding for WHO will impact the organization’s ability to function, since these resources constitute 27% of the budget for polio eradication, and 19% of the total devoted to fighting tuberculosis, HIV, malaria and measles | Trump is attempting to divert attention from his administration’s mishandling of ...