Espionage: Ex-US ambassador to Bolivia accused of spying for Cuba arrested in Florida
Born in Colombia, Rocha was raised in a working-class home in New York City and went on to obtain a succession of liberal arts degrees from Yale, Harvard and Georgetown before joining the foreign service in 1981.
Trump rallies supporters to ‘guard the vote’ and vows revenge against Biden if he wins 2024 poll
Trump noted he was often attacked for these relationships and tried to defend them. “It’s good to have a good relationship with people who have nuclear weapons,” he said.
Trump rallies supporters to ‘guard the vote’ as he vows revenge against Biden if he wins 2024 poll
Former President Donald Trump on Saturday attempted to turn the tables on his likely rival in November, President Joe Biden, arguing that the man whose election victory Trump tried to overturn is “the destroyer of American democracy.” Trump’s allegations about Biden, a Democrat, echo the ones that Biden has been...
What’s the endgame of East African Community: East African federation or East African confederation?
When Ugandans voted 65 per cent for federal system of government in a nationwide constitutional change initiated by President Museveni’s National Resistance Movement (NRM) in the early 1990s, they sincerely wanted a federal government of Uganda.
Henry Kissinger, top US diplomat who died aged 100, was in many respects stuck at age 14
As national security adviser, Henry Kissinger played a key role in prolonging the US wars in Southeast Asia, resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands of American troops and hundreds of thousands of Cambodians, Laotians, and Vietnamese. During his tenure, the United States dropped nine billion pounds of munitions on Indochina.
Republicans in a fix: GOP 2024 nomination rules vague on what happens if Trump is convicted
One contingency section of longstanding party rules would allow the RNC to free a state from the rules prior to the convention if “compliance is impossible” and “the Republican National Committee determines that granting such waiver is in the best interests of the Republican Party.”
Republicans plan vote to authorise Biden impeachment as White House queries legitimacy
Republicans have been struggling to show progress in the nearly year-long probe of the president and business deals by members of his family, including his son, Hunter Biden. They have presented no evidence to prove that the president, in his current or previous office, abused his role or accepted bribes.
America’s paragon of foreign policy Henry Kissinger, who believed ‘power is the ultimate aphrodisiac’ dies at 100
A Jew who fled Nazi Germany with his family in his teens, Kissinger in his later years cultivated the reputation of respected statesman, giving speeches, offering advice to Republicans and Democrats alike and managing a global consulting business. He turned up in President Donald Trump’s White House on multiple occasions. But Nixon-era documents and tapes, as they trickled out over the years, brought revelations – many in Kissinger’s own words – that sometimes cast him in a harsh light.
Third parties look to reap from looming Biden vs Trump rematch in US 2024 presidential election
Stein, a physician and environmental activist, announced this month that she will make her third bid for the presidency in 2024, reversing course from her earlier decision to remain on the sidelines next year and support Cornel West, a scholar and progressive activist with a loyal following on the left. West announced last month that he no longer was running under the Green Party banner, but as an independent.
In the past sanctions deterred coups in Africa, there’s growing evidence they no longer work
A trend in the current third wave of coups is that sanctions did not prevent repeated overthrows in Sudan, Mali and Burkina Faso. Nor have they deterred the unlawful assumption of power by soldiers in Guinea, Niger, Chad and Gabon. Several of these countries have yet to restore constitutional order or revert to the status quo, meaning coup-makers are driving the transition agendas. The latest example is Mali, where presidential elections planned for February 2004 have been postponed.
