As the Trump administration expands sanctions on Cuba to pressure regime change, one of its targets is GAESA, the military-run business empire behind hotels, dollar stores, banks and other key sources ...
For many in the Indian diaspora, visiting the motherland is usually an annual pilgrimage for the whole family. So, when New York resident Sonya Vai got the chance to travel to her parent’s home ...
Patrice Lumumba, the first elected leader of independent Congo (today Democratic Republic of Congo) was assassinated in 1961. His family has spent years trying to bring the perpetrators of his killing ...
Afghans are among the largest group of people seeking asylum in Europe. Now, the European Commission says it plans to hold talks with the Taliban in Brussels about deporting some Afghans back home.
The musical style known as cumbia had at its root a single powerful ambassador: Totó la Momposina. The Colombian artist has died at the age of 85. As we hear from Co-hosts Marco Werman and Carolyn ...
Sudan’s civil war has triggered what many describe as the world’s largest humanitarian disaster. It’s a crisis that remains ...
Dramatic cuts to science research grants have particularly affected rare disease research. But some of the people most ...
Pakistan is in the middle of a solar power revolution. Over the past five years, the percentage of electricity generated from ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared an emergency in response to an Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo. More than 300 cases are suspected and nearly 100 people have died. The ...
As tensions over immigration reach a crisis point in South Africa, the Nigerian government has even offered to repatriate its ...
It’s not often we get to hear music written and recorded in Antarctica. But that’s what musician Kyra Sims was able to do on her French horn, while on an expedition with Antarctic scientists and ...
Relatives of Mexico’s disappeared took to the streets yesterday for a Mother’s Day march, calling on authorities to do more ...