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When I arrived as a graduate student in New York in 1983, the city and the country were in the middle of a vibrant anti-apartheid campaign. I never dreamt that 40 years later I would feel this gnawing ...

Homicides are up 10% in Milwaukee this year. Even more depressing — and truly infuriating — is the perception that gun deaths ...

President Museveni on Saturday pledged to wipe out corruption as his major agenda, as he officially declared intention to run ...

A red shipping container sits on the tarmac of Sierra Leone's Queen Elizabeth II Quay, under swinging cranes and towering stacks of similar steel boxes.

Catholic bishops from Asia, Africa and Latin America are demanding climate justice for the parts of the world most affected ...

Richard Boucher, who served for more than a decade as the spokesman for the State Department and assistant secretary of state for public affairs, has died at age 73, according to ...

With Kenya’s prisons overflowing and 90% of incarcerated women being single mothers, High Court Advocate Miriam Wachira is ...

Iran is assessing the damage and lashing out over the American and Israeli airstrikes that damaged its nuclear sites. But the ...

A recent FICO report showed that in April 2019, just 1.6% of the U.S. scorable population had a FICO score of 850 — it's typically unnecessary to aim for a credit score above 800.