President Joe Biden: ‘Madeleine Albright was a force’
As a young girl, she found a home in the United States—after her family fled their home country of Czechoslovakia ...
Day: March 23, 2022
First female U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright dies at 84
Albright was born Marie Jana Korbelová and immigrated to the United States from Czechoslovakia with her family in 1948. She ...
Tigrayans “starving to death” in Ethiopia and “giving them food is more important than medicine”, laments WHO chief Tedros
The World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus lamented on Wednesday that people in the Tigray region of Ethiopia ...
Here are the 19 U.S. officials traveling with President Biden to Europe to confront Putin and back Ukraine
U.S. President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is currently traveling to Europe to rally support for Ukraine amid Russia's invasion.
President Biden, U.S. Department of Transportation announce $2.9 billion of bipartisan infrastructure law funding for major infrastructure projects
Combining three major discretionary grant programs into one Multimodal Projects Discretionary Grant opportunity reduces the burden for state and local ...
Kremlin targets critics amid Ukraine war as verdict adds 9 years to Alexei Navalny’s prison sentence
The conviction of the imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on new trumped-up charges on March 22, 2022, reflects the Russian government’s ...
Girls’ education under threat in Tanzania
Tanzania’s pledge to adopt guidelines to ensure that schools ensure adolescent mothers can return to schools by June 2022 is an important turning ...
Reign of terror in Uganda with hundreds ‘disappeared’ and tortured
The Ugandan government has failed to hold to account security officials, who have unlawfully detained and tortured hundreds of government critics, opposition ...