Quobna Cugoano was captured by slavers aged 13 but later played a big part in the UK abolition movement.source
Day: September 20, 2023
US Fed leaves interest rates unchanged, signals another hike
The US Fed expects interest rates to fall only half a percentage point in 2024, lower than market expectations. The United States Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday…
How Chile’s stolen children are finding their way home
Santiago, Chile – Chris Flaherty remembers clearly the phone call in which he learned about his biological family. It was in October 2022, and he had just finished a day…
NASA set to deliver biggest asteroid sample yet: What you need to know
Planet Earth is about to receive a special delivery — the biggest sample yet from an asteroid. A United States space agency (NASA) spacecraft will fly by Earth on Sunday…
The West’s climate crisis is bad news for the Global South too
The global investment and lending systems are on the verge of a climate-centric metamorphosis as the consequences of global warming on economies around the world become impossible to overlook. That…
Why Cubans are fighting for Russia in Ukraine
Santa Clara, Cuba CNN — For months, hundreds of Cubans have quietly left the island to fight for Russia in its war in Ukraine, chasing promises of money and Russian citizenship from…
Rishi Sunak to Weaken U.K. Climate Targets as Election Approaches
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of Britain was preparing on Wednesday to weaken key targets in the country’s efforts to slow climate change in what could be a critical policy shift…
Turkey supports ‘steps taken by Azerbaijan’ in Nagorno-Karabakh: Erdogan
Turkey’s leader expresses full support for Azerbaijan’s military operation in its ethnically Armenian breakaway region. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expressed full support for Azerbaijan’s military operation in its…
Canada: How ties with India soured over Hardeep Singh Nijjar killing
“I do think that this is a lesson to us all that there is nothing sacrosanct about India’s close relationships with Western partners. This is a wake-up call that yes,…
Portraits of Fire Victims: Two Toddlers Named ‘Memory,’ and a Teacher About to Wed
As many as 600 people called the squalid five-story building at 80 Albert Street in downtown Johannesburg home. Nearly three weeks after a fire tore through the building, leaving at…
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