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NPR’s Cokie Roberts: Press Corps Covered Up Congressional Sexual Misconduct ‘For Years’

Appearing on ABC’s This Week, National Public Radio’s Cokie Roberts admitted that “for years” the female press corps has covered up sexual misconduct on Capitol Hill. While speaking about John Conyers and Al Franken, two Democrats facing numerous sexual misconduct allegations, Roberts let this bomb matter-of-factly drop on the left-wing Sunday show, “I mean, we…

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Arsenal: No Alexis Sanchez & Mesut Ozil exit in January – Arsene Wenger

Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez to stay until end of season – WengerManager Arsene Wenger says forward Alexis Sanchez and midfielder Mesut Ozil will be at Arsenal after the January transfer window « unless something unbelievable happens ». The contracts of both players expire at the end of the season. Asked if his gut feeling is they…

Hundreds of thousands at probability of famine in submit-storm Haiti 0

Hundreds of thousands at probability of famine in submit-storm Haiti

It’s been almost a year since southern Haiti was devastated by Hurricane Matthew. It has also been almost eight years since an earthquake killed more than 300,000 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless. But a recent visit to a UNICEF treatment centre in the south shows everything continues to go wrong in the country. Dozens…

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Barzani adviser: Kurdish secession is inevitable

Amid rising regional tensions and international opposition, Iraqi Kurds voted in a controversial secession referendum in September, setting off a chain of events that resulted in a military confrontation between Erbil and Baghdad. Central government troops quickly regained control of Kirkuk, home to more than one million people and the hub of a major oil-producing area.…

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Rabbis petition in opposition to Israel in enhance of Rohingya

Amid a brutal campaign against Muslim-majority Rohingya in Myanmar, Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins did something he had never done before, signing a petition against the Israeli government to end arms supplies to the Myanmar military. « Rabbis have a moral obligation to make their voice heard in such moral situations, » Elkins, who holds Israeli and American…

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Pakistan’s take care of protesters a ‘blow’ to democracy

The resignation of Pakistan’s federal law minister and signing of an agreement to end a weeks-long sit-in outside the capital Islamabad has been termed a « surrender » and a « dangerous trend for democracy and the state ». Thousands of supporters of a religious party launched a sit-in outside Islamabad earlier this month, demanding the resignation of minister…

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Is Chechnya’s Kadyrov in actuality ‘dreaming’ of quitting?

Ramzan Kadyrov, the wilful leader of Russia’s southern Chechen republic, is talking about standing down. He says it is his « dream ». However, if past practise is anything to go by, this does not mean for a minute that he is contemplating retirement at 41, or even relinquishing his ruthless grip on what has become his…

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Pope meets Suu Kyi, fails to level Rohingya in speech

Pope Francis has met Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi but avoided directly addressing the ongoing Rohingya crisis. At the meeting in Yangon on Tuesday, the pontiff stressed the importance of Myanmar respecting the « identity » of all of its ethnic groups, without using the term « Rohingya ». More than 600,000 Rohingya have fled to neighbouring…

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Hadiya case: Fight of a woman to marry man of change

New Delhi, India – From the confines of her parents’ home to the regulation of a hostel; from the « custody » of her parents to the « guardianship » of the college dean: freedom is arriving in instalments for 24-year-old Hadiya. India’s top court on Monday finally heard Hadiya, a woman from a Hindu family whose marriage to a…