Gunners get ready to fire their manager Mike Arteta, as Antonio Conte loads missiles to take over
Arsenal have reportedly agreed terms in principle with Italian boss Antonio Conte as Mikel Arteta struggles to get the Gunners’ season up and running. The Gunners sit bottom of the Premier League with three defeats from the three games. They are yet to score a goal and already questions are...
Biden administration in frenzied erasure of damning Afghan weapon reports from federal websites
President Biden will be bringing world leaders together for a virtual Summit for Democracy in December, the White House announced early this week as part of the administration’s efforts to tackle authoritarianism, fight corruption and advance human rights. The War in Afghanistan has always been a black-box, but the Biden...
Detained life: Kenya President Kenyatta knows not only his birthday, but also day and venue of his conception
A message in the visitors’ book in Maralal National Museum serves as a reminder that Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta knows where he was conceived: the detention house where his father had been transferred rehabilitation as they colonial government prepared him to take over the reins power at independence. He is...
Does teaching people aged over 65 years a foreign language promote heathy brain function?
For a long time, it was thought that the only way to really learn a language was to do it early. It was thought that after adolescence, you couldn’t learn a language perfectly. You were always going to be accented. But we now know that that’s not true, because there...
Colombia ‘crop substitution’ programmes: Reality on the ground is the illicit drug business is thriving
As part of the Colombia peace agreement, the government pledged to invest heavily in rural infrastructure and in crop substitution programmes for coca growers like Pípe under what was called the Plan for Development and Territorial Focus, known by its Spanish initials, PDET. Since the plan was launched in 2017,...
Five years on Colombia’s coca regions remain at war, narcotics trade rebuilding and distrust is growing
Colombia’s 2016 peace deal was lauded for bringing to an end the longest-running war in the Americas. But five years on, aggressive counter-narcotics tactics and unkept government pledges are blamed for fuelling distrust in rural areas and driving a new cycle of violence. President Iván Duque’s administration has launched a...
