Yearly Archives: 2018

As Venezuela’s Health System Crumbles, Pregnant Women Flee to Colombia

Exhausted but relieved, Yariani Flores lay next to her healthy newborn son, along with four other Venezuelan women who just gave birth in a hospital in Colombia’s border city of Cucuta. Thousands of Venezuelan women have done the same over the past few years, as the health system in their home country has crumbled. They crossed the border, driven by …

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Democrats press U.S. Justice Dept. officials on possible leaks to Giuliani

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Democrats on Monday pressed Justice Department officials about whether some FBI agents may have leaked damaging information about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to Rudy Giuliani, now an adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, shortly before the 2016 election.

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Cultured Traveler: Athens, Rising

The city has endured crisis and chaos, and yet is now emerging from the wreckage as one of Europe’s most vibrant and significant cultural capitals.

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Every James Bond film ranked from worst to best

From “Dr. No” through “Spectre” (and Sean Connery to Daniel Craig), here’s what we REALLY thought of every James Bond movie. Ranking all 26 films from worst to best.          

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Right-Wing Italian Interior Minister Wants to Look into ‘Roma Question’

Italy’s new right-wing interior minister Matteo Salvini said his department has to look into “the Roma question” in Italy — a comment the opposition said reminds them of Italian fascism. Salvini said Monday he wants to take a census of Italy’s Roma population. “Unfortunately, we will have to keep the Italian Roma because we can’t expel them,” Salvini told Telelombardia …

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