Author: Olive Metuge
Rose Natabo needs to leave one of her starving sons behind. At dawn, she squeezes her firstborn goodbye, then wraps her youngest, Santo, to her back, his legs akimbo at her waist. Taking the hand of her middle child, James, she hurries away toward help, her pink plastic sandals clapping over the dry dirt. A couple hours later, the trio are in the back of an ambulance speeding by soccer fields, slums and footpaths. They turn through an iron gate and into the only hospital in Kakuma, a sprawling refugee camp in Kenya’s northern desert. After running from wars and…
Paul KirbyEurope digital editorUkrinform/NurPhotoBelgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever is yet to be convinced that the money held in Belgium should be loaned to Ukraine (file pic)European Union leaders are gathering for a Brussels summit where a momentous decision will be taken on whether to loan Ukraine tens of billions of euros in frozen Russian assets to fund its military and economic needs.Most of Russia’s €210bn (£185bn; $245bn) worth of assets in the EU are held by Belgium-based organisation Euroclear, and so far Belgium and some other members of the bloc have said they are opposed to using the cash.Without…
Listen to this articleEstimated 2 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.The U.S. military said Wednesday that it attacked a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing four people, on the same day the House rejected efforts to limit U.S. President Donald Trump’s power to use military force against drug cartels.U.S. Southern Command stated in a news release, and on social media, that the vessel was operated by narco-terrorists along a known trafficking route. The military…
It’s the age-old question: Does the Supreme Court decide its cases based on rank partisanship rather than legal principles? Many scholars and commentators unhesitatingly answer in the affirmative. Such individuals may acknowledge that the plurality of Supreme Court decisions are unanimous (42% last term) and that the vast majority of the court’s cases do not break down by the 6-3 conservative/liberal split (over 90% last term). But, in their view, the important cases are decided along partisan lines. Of course, this raises the obvious follow-up: Which cases are the important ones? In answering this, many look no further than the…
“You must not abandon the ship in a storm because you cannot control the winds. … What you cannot turn to good, you must at least make as little bad as you can.” —St. Thomas More The day after Halloween, I was accosted by holiday decorations and Christmas carols in a store. I should have been surprised by how quickly the season of giving was approaching, but instead, I found myself in a bah humbug sort of mood. Six weeks later with Thanksgiving and #GivingTuesday behind me, I’m still struggling to find joy and hope as I’m confronted with a…
What parents need to know about the updated admission ages in UAE schoolsUAE schools have introduced new age rules for admissions to kindergarten and grade 1, starting from the 2026–2027 academic year. The Education, Human Development, and Community Development Council approved the change, setting December 31 of the admission year as the new official cut-off date. Previously, the cut-off was August 31, giving children more time to reach the required age before starting school.The rule applies to schools and kindergartens starting in August or September, while schools starting in April will continue to use March 31. Current students are not…
Reporting Highlights A Man-Made Crisis: Trump officials were warned repeatedly that cutting off food aid to refugees in Kenya would lead to violence and death. They did so anyway, and thousands starved. Reduced Rations: To make the dwindling funds last, aid workers cut rations this summer to the point that half the camp received no food at all, forcing people to make impossible choices. A New Deal: The U.S. has since released some funds that will allow workers to keep distributing food through at least March, though rations are still drastically reduced. These highlights were written by the reporters and…
Heavy rains over the past week have compounded the already dire living conditions of the hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, UN agencies say.Unicef spokesman Jonathan Crickx told the BBC that the weather overnight had been “horrendous”, with the rain so intense that he had seen up to 15cm (6in) of water on the ground near his office.He said he was extremely concerned that children living in tents and makeshift shelters in wet clothing would succumb to hypothermia and other illnesses.Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry has said one baby has died from hypothermia and at least 11…
6 minutes agoNewsDuration 1:49Ice, ice, baby! A group of marathon runners awaiting a flight out of Antarctica staged a backward mile run on Dec. 15. While some competitors slipped and stumbled on their way to the finish line, the eventual victor hailing from Montreal called the sub-zero conditions ‘perfect.’ Source link
ScotusCrim is a recurring series by Rory Little focusing on intersections between the Supreme Court and criminal law. The first “opinion of the court” for the 2025-26 term was a summary disposition in a criminal case (an immediate grant of certiorari and reversal of the lower court decision without further briefing or oral argument). In Clark v. Sweeney, a short and little-noticed per curiam opinion with no identified author or dissents, the court reversed a grant of habeas corpus relief “because the Court of Appeals departed dramatically from the principle of party presentation.” While the court did not explain it,…