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Violence erupted after the re-election of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta this week, leaving at least 24 people dead nationwide, a rights group said. … Kenyatta, the 55-year-old son of the country’s founding President, was declared the winner Friday, defeating veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga for a second five-year term. … Most of the demonstrators were… Read more.
To stem more shame…? Anchoring the men’s 4x100m, he had a few meters to make up. And no doubt the young Bolt would have. But this one suddenly screamed and stumbled as he came down with his golden farewell shattered by the first injury he has experienced at a major competition. (NBC Sports, August 12,… Read more.
A protest against government removal of a Confederate statue in Charlottesville on Saturday turned violent. The white supremacist protesters clashed with counterprotesters, leading the governor to declare a state of emergency before the rally even started. A woman died and multiple were injured after a car plowed into counterprotesters. (The Hill, August 13, 2017) Frankly, reaction… Read more.
And everyone in Washington is dumbfounded … again. President Donald Trump reiterated his bellicose warning to North Korea from earlier in the week, telling reporters at his golf club in New Jersey on Thursday that his threat to bring ‘fire and fury’ if North Korea continued to threaten the United States may not have gone… Read more.
And, trust me, giving way to gallows humor is the only way to cope with the apocalyptic rantings and antics of both leaders. President Trump used his harshest language yet to warn North Korea on Tuesday that it will be ‘met with fire and fury and frankly power, the likes of which this world has… Read more.
Israel plans to revoke media credentials of Al Jazeera journalists and close the network’s office in Jerusalem, the country’s communication minister has announced. Ayoub Kara made the announcement on Sunday during a press conference in Jerusalem, where Al Jazeera was barred from attending. ‘We have based our decision on the move by Sunni Arab states to… Read more.
Bolt insisted this would be the final individual race of his storied career – his swan song. This is why everyone was so anxious for him to go out on a high note. Alas: Olympic champion and world record holder Usain Bolt finished third in the men’s 100 meters in 9.95 seconds at the IAAF World Championships in London… Read more.
Venezuela’s controversial new assembly has opened despite fierce opposition at home and abroad. President Nicolás Maduro says the constituent assembly is needed to bring peace after months of crisis. But the opposition says the new body, which has the ability to rewrite the constitution, is a way for the president to cling to power. (BBC,… Read more.
Usain Bolt sparked unprecedented interest in this month’s IAAF World Championships when he announced it would be the last meet of his storied career. It also helped that sports commentators began hyping the showdown between the aging Bolt and upstart Andre De Grasse (of Canada) the way others hyped the showdown between the aging Sonny… Read more.
Al Gore won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his crusade against climate change. This, notwithstanding that his crusade amounted to little more than a “Powerpoint presentation” of alarming weather projections, which he marketed as an apocalyptic thriller titled An Inconvenient Truth. But it was a blockbuster, and an Oscar winner to boot! Except that,… Read more.
