NO, THANKS
Lawyers and family members of a Russian detainee—who is now being held in the UAE—say he should not be sent home to Russia as he may be tortured or killed.
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SAVIOR COMPLEX
As COVID cases reach new peaks around the world, Ebola frontliners are rallying against jab inequity and lambasting WHO’s global vaccine initiative for its obvious shortcomings.
DEVASTATING
“The majority of those hit in the strike were civilians who are protected from such attacks by international humanitarian law,” a UN report released this week noted.
PANDEMIC
Salvadoran pilot and UN peacekeeper Carlos Guillén Alfaro’s death in Mali remains shrouded in mystery—and his family is desperate for answers.
IRON LUNGS
The U.S. has long made combating polio its top funding priority at the World Health Organization. Now COVID and Trump have put that campaign in serious jeopardy.
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FATAL DISTRACTION
Cities across the nation are on fire even as COVID-19 has killed 102,000 Americans. Trump is desperate to shift blame. But scapegoating the WHO won't make things better.
CRAFTY
Kelly and Joseph Craft were reaping the rewards after showering Trump and other GOP top dogs with money. Then the pandemic hit.
PARADIGM LOST
The invisible virus attacked our society at its weakest links and made visible those whom we depended upon but had undervalued and forgotten.
THE INSECURITY COUNCIL
As Trump comes to New York next week, delegates from around the world are hunkering down.