Watch: Mohan Yadav: ‘Welcome varied opinions, but no Minister senior to CM’ Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav completed one year in office on December 13, 2024. He succeeded a popular CM, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who had helmed the State for more than 16 years. The BJP’s decision to pick Mr. Yadav for the … Read more
While Russia is launching accelerating salvos at neighboring Ukraine, even threatening nuclear Armageddon, it seems the UK and France — both NATO members — have somehow still not managed to patch things up. UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, who is in the middle of a bitter intra-party battle against Rishi Sunak for leadership of the … Read more
The cascade of resignations by British officials urging that the ethically-challenged Prime Minister Boris Johnson step down ultimately produced the desired result. After an endless series of scandals, and following stubborn vows that he would not give up, Johnson at last announced his resignation on Thursday. It looks like democracy prevailed in the United Kingdom. … Read more
by Sigal Atzmon Ask a second radiologist or pathologist to assess the work of a first and there is a 10% to 50% chance that they will uncover a diagnostic error according to numerous clinical studies published over the years. These are not reassuring odds and despite many efforts to improve them, medical error remains … Read more
After decades of demurring, Finland appears ready to find shelter under NATO’s expansive defense umbrella. Prime Minister Sanna Marin, who met with her Swedish counterpart Magdalena Andersson on Wednesday, underscored the shift in thinking that many of us here have been feeling. “We have to be prepared for all kinds of actions from Russia,” Marin … Read more
Sitting in court during Elsheikh’s trial in Alexandria, Virginia was Diane Foley, the mother of American journalist James Foley, who was murdered by ISIS in 2014. “I’m relieved and incredibly grateful that justice prevailed,” Diane Foley told me after the verdict. In 2012 James, aged 39, was a freelance photographer covering the war in Syria. … Read more
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rightfully tweeted, “To the world: What is the point of saying never again for 80 years, if the world stays silent when a bomb drops on the same site of Babyn Yar?” I will not stay silent and sit back as these atrocities play out before our eyes. When I received … Read more
The French Senate voted 160 to 143 in favor of the ban on wearing the hijab and other “conspicuous religious symbols” in sports competitions. The amendment was proposed by the right-wing Les Républicains, which argued the hijab could risk the safety of athletes wearing it while playing sports. You really couldn’t make this up. In … Read more
In cobalt mining towns like Kolwezi, children emerge by the hundreds from water-logged huts to climb the rocky, 50-meter pit walls of nearby industrial mining sites. Some scrounge for cobalt inside scores of trenches and tunnels dug into the pit walls. Others climb over the concrete fences atop the pit walls to dig inside the … Read more
Then, on August 24, 2016, Taliban gunmen stalked the campus killing anyone who moved. One of them shot Musazai in the leg. She pretended to be dead and the gunman shot her again to finish her off. A bullet struck her in the foot. For the next six hours, as the terrorists rampaged on the … Read more