Yearly Archives: 2018

The best museum exhibits in Europe this summer

If you’re heading overseas — or looking for a good reason to — Europe’s museum exhibits have a lot to offer in the next few months.          

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Arab coalition bombs Houthis at Hodeidah airport, urges them to withdraw

ADEN (Reuters) – Arab coalition aircraft bombarded Houthi fighters holed up at the airport of Yemen’s main port Hodeidah on Monday as a senior alliance official said he hoped U.N. diplomacy could coax the Iran-aligned movement to cede the city to “save the population”.

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Scope of Need of Migrants Trekking Through Balkans is Increasing

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) says thousands of migrants trekking through the Balkans are “in desperate need of basic humanitarian services and support.” IFRC said Monday, “More than 5,600 people have reached Bosnia and Herzegovina since the beginning of January, compared with just 754 across the whole of 2017.” “We are concerned that people …

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Too frail for death row? Texas inmate seeks execution reprieve

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – After two recent botched U.S. executions of inmates with compromised veins, a convicted murderer and rapist is arguing he is too ill to be put to death by lethal injection in Texas later this month.

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Will Congress Address Immigration Border Controversy?

Steve Inskeep talks to Republican Rep. Will Hurd of Texas about the growing criticism against the Trump administration policy of separating parents and children crossing illegally into the U.S.

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