U.S. and Afghan troops did in fact break through a locked gate outside of a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) clinic last week in Kunduz, Afghanistan, where 22 patients and staff were killed in a U.S. military bombing days earlier, a Department of Defense official admitted Monday. Pentagon spokesperson Jeff Davis said the soldiers…
Theoretically, it would be a great story for the American press: an autocrat so obsessed with overthrowing the leader of a neighboring country that he authorizes his intelligence services to collaborate with terrorists in staging a lethal sarin attack to be blamed on his enemy and thus trick major powers to launch punishing bombing raids…
IDEAS Bremmer is a foreign affairs columnist and editor-at-large at TIME. This is the text of a speech delivered by Ian Bremmer on November 18 at the 2019 GZERO Summit in Tokyo. China has made its decision. Beijing is building a separate system of Chinese technology—its own standards, infrastructure, and supply chains—to compete with the…
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Residents in several Bolivian cities are reporting food and gasoline shortages because of protests by supporters of President Evo Morales, who resigned and fled to Mexico after a disputed election and nationwide unrest. Bolivia’s interim government said Monday that its efforts to resupply La Paz faced challenges because demonstrators cut…
When Aurora Lo Porto noticed an alarming escalation of racist attitudes on social media in Italy during the past two years, she felt the impulse to act. The medical student had noticed that in her once-welcoming hometown of Catania, Sicily, neighbors and acquaintances had started speaking about immigrants only through harmful stereotypes and unverified data….
Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, has found himself at the center of controversy surrounding his relationship with disgraced American financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who died in an apparent suicide in a New York City federal jail in August. In an exclusive televised interview with the BBC at Buckingham Palace broadcast in…
Four-time world champion Lewis Hamilton would not be surprised to see Fernando Alonso walk away from F1, given the sport’s current lack of equity. Alonso, who has fallen down the order since joining McLaren back in 2015, is considering his next career move, with a departure from Grand Prix racing cited as a likely possibility,…
Red Bull Racing team boss Christian Horner praised Max Verstappen for his performance in qualifying on Saturday, a result achieved despite a persistent engine issue. Before the all-important evening session, Verstappen had expressed his frustration earlier in the day and on Friday with the running of his Renault Spec-C power unit. And even in the…
Renault F1 boss Cyril Abiteboul says that Max Verstappen’s comments that Red Bull have turned their back on its latest C-Spec engine because of its performance at high altitude are groundless. “In general I think Max should focus on the car,” Abiteboul told reporters in Sochi on Friday. Click Here: new zealand rugby team jerseys…
The Sauber team is looking forward to getting a boost from its new ‘home’ race this weekend as it heads to Monza for the Italian Grand Prix. Although the team itself is based in Switzerland, this week’s race will be the closest it has to a home event in 2018 following its new tie-up with…