Month: April 2022

It’s a momentous week for action on climate change. On Thursday, the White House is convening 40 world leaders for an Earth Day summit where “This climate policy expert is taking over Jeff Bezos’s $10 billion Earth Fund”

The United States has an aggressive new commitment for fighting climate change: cutting its greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 52 percent relative to 2005 “5 things to know about the new US climate commitment”

The greatest challenger to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rule is a man whose name the dictator won’t say and whom he has tried to kill: “Alexei Navalny, the Russian dissident challenging Putin, explained”

This story is one in our six-part series The Pandemic Playbook. Explore all the stories here. Every January or February, Le The Linh and his “Vietnam defied the experts and sealed its border to keep Covid-19 out. It worked.”

Since leaving government at the end of the Obama administration, former Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes has spent the last four years calling for “Ben Rhodes is worried about Joe Biden’s climate change and China policies”

There’s a quote often attributed to Winston Churchill, the former British premier: “Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms “Joe Biden wants to prove democracy works — before it’s too late”

Ethiopia’s Tigray region is facing a deepening hunger emergency, with about 350,000 people threatened by famine. It is the most severe starvation crisis in the “Ethiopia is facing a human-made famine”

Tunisia’s president has pushed the country’s fledgling democracy into crisis. Over the weekend, President Kais Saied fired the country’s prime minister and suspended Parliament in “The political crisis in Tunisia, explained by an expert”

One of the emerging tenets of the Biden presidency is that the United States and China are locked in ideological conflict over the fate of “The biggest threat to democracy isn’t coming from China. It’s coming from within.”

Which of these Chelsea greats would make our Super Eagles-Black Stars combined XI? Goal/GettyGhana-Nigeria Combined XI Ahead of this week’s World Cup qualifying double header “Ghana-Nigeria Combined XI: Essien vs Mikel”