Rebels launched sweeping assaults against the forces of President Bashar al-Assad in northwestern Syria, taking control of large portions of territory, including much of the city of Aleppo. Carlotta Gall, a senior correspondent for The New York Times, explains how events beyond Syria’s borders lit the fuse for renewed fighting.
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Washington, DC CNN — Spending at US retailers fell in March as consumers pulled back after the banking crisis fueled recession fears. Retail sales, which are adjusted for seasonality but not for inflation, fell by 1% in March from the prior month, the Commerce Department reported on Friday. That was steeper than an expected 0.4%…
CNN — Mercy Esther was eight years old when she left home. Raised by her grandmother in rural Tanzania, Mercy Esther and her siblings were born into poverty, sometimes without money for food, let alone schoolbooks. When their grandmother was approached with a job offer for Mercy Esther in Kenya, and the promise that money…
In an environment of high valuations, one of two “catalysts” could cause a market correction. That’s according to Brian Arcese, portfolio manager of the Singapore-based Foord Asset Management, who said markets have been “expensive for quite a while” — the S&P 500 is up about 23% in the year to date. It has a price-to-earnings…
Waliullah Maroof Hamida Banu at her Karachi residence in 2022 An Indian woman who says she was trafficked to Pakistan more than two decades ago has finally returned home – 18 months after her grandson spotted her in a YouTube video. Hamida Banu said she had spent the last 22 years “as a living corpse”,…
AFP Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has been a loyal member of the governing party since she was 14 If things work out as Namibia’s long-time governing party hopes, the country will be electing its first female head of state this week. But a mood of disillusionment with liberation movements in southern Africa, coupled with the anti-incumbency feeling…
We photographed badly wounded Gazans who made it out for treatment. Many can think of little but the dead they left behind. “We wanted to go with them, too,” one child told us. Source link