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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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Health and Human Services Department under Kennedy took unprecedented steps to change how vaccines are evaluated, ...