War on terror: Abu Ghraib detainees awarded $42m in torture trial against US defence contractor
The case was filed 16 years ago but got caught up in procedural hurdles, as CACI tried more than 20 times to dismiss the lawsuit. November’s case was a retrial; in an initial trial in April, jurors were deadlocked following more than a week of deliberations.
Wary of erratic Trump, China’s Xi cautions US at meeting with President Biden to ‘make the wise choice’ to keep relations stable
Xi, who is firmly entrenched atop China’s political hierarchy, spoke forcefully in his brief remarks before reporters. Biden, who is winding down more than 50 years of public service, talked in broader brushstrokes about where the relationship between the two countries has gone. He reflected not just on the past four years but on the decades the two have known each other.
Celebrated ‘Soweto’ movie star Whoopi Goldberg gets the flak for alleging NYC bakery rejected her order over politics
The flap started on Wednesday when Goldberg celebrated her 69th birthday on the ABC talk-show by sharing a tray of Charlotte Russe – small sponge cakes topped with whipped cream and a cherry that she said were her mother’s favourite dessert when she was growing up.
Disquiet as Trump’s pro-Israel cabinet nominations upset Muslims who voted for him
Several Muslim and Arab supporters of Trump said they hoped Richard Grenell, Trump’s former acting director of national intelligence, would play a key role after he led months of outreach to Muslim and Arab American communities, and was even introduced as a potential next secretary of state at events.
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te meeting with Biden riles Beijing ahead of US president’s meeting with China’s Xi in Peru
At the same time, Beijing’s economy is taking a stiff hit from Biden’s steps on trade, including a plan to restrict US investment in Chinese artificial intelligence, quantum computing and semiconductors and export restrictions on high-end computer chips. All of those topics are expected to figure into the talks, US officials said.
Uganda became a ‘thinking desert’ when command-order pedagogism robbed education of reasoning
One thing is true! Students who have been exposed to interdisciplinary, crossdisciplinary, transdisplinarity and extradisciplinary teaching and learning are able to evaluate complex problems and to suggest solutions to them. As Sudderth has surmised, interdisciplinarity supports critical thinking by helping students to understand multiple viewpoints, evaluate conflicting perspectives and build structural knowledge (Oweyegha-Afunaduula, 2023, 2023). They have advanced critical thinking and reasoning skills.
Raped and impregnated by IS fighters, thousands of Yazidi women abandon children when rescued
Yazidi captives are often too afraid to seek help, four survivors said. Rafida Naif, a 26-year-old Yazidi woman, spent 20 months at al-Hol. She said she feared she would be killed if she identified herself to guards and wasn’t immediately removed from the IS family she was with. When the family would hear a vehicle approaching their tent, she said, they would hide her in a hole and cover it with cardboard or bedding.
Against smouldering embers of Tigray Ethiopia struggles to put out Amhara inferno lit by Fano rebellion
Human rights groups have accused the Ethiopian authorities of extrajudicial killings, mass arrests and attacks on schools and hospitals.
Russia suspends gas deliveries to Austria after Ukraine declined to renew transit agreement
European and global gas prices spiked following a drop in Russian pipeline supplies in 2022 but some European countries found alternative sources, including liquefied natural gas from the United States. The US has become the world’s top gas producer and is expected to expand production.
Musk’s political ascendancy gives Wall Street banks hope of offloading $13 billion of debt
In recent months, one of the sources said, some banks expected X had seen increased traffic as users flocked to the platform around big events like the US elections. Trump, whose account on the platform was restored by Musk after the previous management banned him in January 2021, has been regularly posting on it.
