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By Thomas L. Friedman In the last six months I’ve heard one phrase more often than I had in my previous 66 years: “Can you believe this is happening in America?” As in: “I spent the whole day hunting online for a drugstore to get a…
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COLOMBO - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on members of the UN Human Rights Council to back a resolution on addressing “the lack of accountability for past atrocities in Sri Lanka”, in an address to the council on Wednesday…
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By Bill Pennington and Johnny Diaz LOS ANGELES - Tiger Woods was injured in a serious car crash, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said Tuesday (23), adding in a statement that paramedics pulled him from the wreckage with the…
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VAVUNIYA – Responding to education challenges posed by COVID-19 restrictions, US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Alaina B. Teplitz, on Tuesday (23) inaugurated ‘Smart Classrooms’,  a US-funded online education platform that connects students and…
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Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, officially known as Naval Station Guantanamo Bay or NSGB, (also called Gitmo because of the common pronunciation of the word by the US military) is the oldest overseas US Naval Base. The Base, located on 45 square…
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By Julie Bosman CHICAGO — A nation numbed by misery and loss is confronting a number that still has the power to shock: 500,000. Roughly one year since the first known death by the coronavirus in the United States, an unfathomable toll…
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By Maggie Haberman WASHINGTON - Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday (16) made a slashing and lengthy attack on Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Republican minority leader, calling him a “dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack” and…
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By Will Wright, Giulia Mcdonnell Nieto Del Rio, Campbell Robertson, Derrick Bryson Taylor and Michael Levenson TEXAS - More than 3 million Texans waking up Wednesday (17) morning went to bed still without power after a winter storm…
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By Thomas L. Friedman What do the left-wing San Francisco Board of Education, Donald Trump’s right-wing GOP and all the deer that hang out in my neighbourhood have in common? So much more than you’d think. And the future of American…
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By Michelle Goldberg A few hours after the Senate voted in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial Saturday (13), I spoke to the lead impeachment manager, Jamie Raskin. He was crushingly disappointed. Despite Republicans’ indulgence of Trump over…
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