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Latin America has been hit hard by COVID-19, and leaders there are rushing to vaccinate their populations.
Broader competition between the US, China, and Russia is seen as influencing vaccine distribution.
Some leaders in Latin America appear to be trying to use that competition to advance their own interests.
Latin America has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, and as countries there scramble to vaccinate residents, two leaders are looking to gain geopolitical leverage.
Presidents Juan Orlando Hernández of Honduras and Nayib Bukele of El Salvador have both been criticized by US officials and civil society Hernández over drug-trafficking connections and Bukele for what is seen as an ongoing power grab.
LONDON: Israel has launched hundreds of strikes against Iran and its allied proxies inside Syria since the country’s descent into civil war over a decade ago, with officials in Tel Aviv making it clear they will refuse to tolerate any Iranian entrenchment along their northern border. Israeli warplanes have repeatedly attacked Iran-linked facilities and weapons convoys destined
By JOSEPH CRESS | The Sentinel, Carlisle, Pa. | Published: May 15, 2021 CARLISLE, Pa. (Tribune News Service) Up to that time, it was the largest budget in the history of the Carlisle Area School District. The Sentinel reported on May 18, 1951, that school board members, meeting in a special session, had approved a preliminary fiscal plan of $742,670. Included as a line-item was $50,000 in federal funding, the first appropriation for the children of U.S. Army War College students attending Carlisle schools. Barely a year had gone by since the announcement was made that the senior college of strategic studies would move from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to Carlisle Barracks.
Margee Ensign Announces Resignation as President of Dickinson College - Margee Ensign announces her resignation as Dickinson president to return to AUN, and the Board of Trustees appoints Board Chair John E. Jones III to a two-year term as interim president.
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In this May 6, 2016, file photo, Russell Eagle Bear, the historic preservation officer for the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, stands in his office in in Rosebud, S.D. A group of tribes pushing to place Pe Sla, a site that s sacred to the Great Sioux Nation, into a federal trust has come up against the state of South Dakota. The state in April appealed a federal decision to take the land purchased by the tribes into trust. (AP Photo/Regina Garcia Cano, File)
The remains of 10 children who died at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Cumberland County between 1880 and 1910 are slated to be exhumed this summer.