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Blinken says US won’t trade Covid shots for political favors Secretary of State Tony Blinken said that the US would not “trade shots in arms for political favors” when outlining the State Department’s plans to share supplies of Covid-19 vaccines with other countries, though he offered little detail on what that outreach would look like. “This is about saving lives,” Blinken said during remarks at the State Department. “We’ll treat our partner countries with respect.” Blinken made the announcement and unveiled a new Covid coordinator, Gayle Smith, as the US has come under inc...

705 Known as the "White Ant", convicted war criminal Dominic Ongwen is estimated to have been between nine and 14 years old when he was abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) as he was walking to school in northern Uganda - going on over the next 27 years to become a ruthless rebel commander. Warning: Some people may find details in this story upsetting "It is a story of a child, like many in the LRA, forced to grow up in the image of their oppressors," campaign group LRA Crisis Tracker says. Shortly after his abduction in 1987 or 1988, he tried to escape with three others and when they...

December 13 - 2020 WASHINGTON DC / PORT SUDAN (File photo) The US passed an act on Tuesday to support a civilian-led democratic transition, promote accountability for human rights abuses, and encourage fiscal transparency in Sudan, meanwhile Russia signed an agreement to establish a naval base in the Red Sea. The US House of Representatives passed the Act with a majority of 335-78 votes.The Sudan Democratic Transition, Accountability, and Fiscal Transparency Act of 2020 (SDTAFT US) which was drafted on March 5, was incorporated as part of the National Defense Authoriza...

Ottoman empire during world war i. turkey, by the way, denies the genocide. joining me right now is christian bale, who starred in movies like the dark knight rises, the fighter, and american hustle, a great movie. oscar isaac is known for his role in star wars, the force awakens. and my friend john prendergast is the co-founder of the enough project, which seeks to end genocide. mr. bale, thank you for joining us. i want to ask you what attracted you to a movie about something that so few americans are even aware of? >> just that fact actually. i was really embarrassed to admit i wasn't aware...

The editor in chief of the jewish daily forward and mark quarterman, research director at the enough project. thank you all for being here. so this is -- as i was saying earlier this morning, this is going to be a pretty sober conversation. i want to be clear that sometimes the topics we take on, on mhp are my wheelhouse and the things that i sort of have my fundamental point to make. today i feel more like the audience in that i feel overwhelmed by this -- these developments. i feel distressed by them. i feel, chris, like we don't have necessarily even the common vocabulary to have a conversa...