A nine-year-old Black girl was handcuffed and pepper-sprayed by police in the US city of Rochester, footage released Sunday showed, sparking new outrage over excesses committed by the country’s law enforcement. Deputy Police Chief Andre Anderson said Sunday the girl — who has not been named — had been suffering from a serious mental health […]

Libyan delegates meet Monday for UN-backed talks in Geneva to choose a new temporary executive to lead the war-scarred country through a transition until scheduled December elections. The 75 participants at the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum have until Friday to select a prime minister and a three-member presidency council from a list of 45 candidates, […]

Myanmar’s military staged a coup on Monday, detaining democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and declaring it had taken control of the country for one year under a state of emergency. The intervention followed weeks of rising tensions between the military, which ruled the country for nearly five decades, and the civilian government over […]

Kenya’s public debt rose by 1.3 trillion shillings ($11.8 billion) in 2020. This is as the east African nation stepped up borrowing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and implemented various infrastructure projects. The Central Bank, in its weekly update of the financial markets on Friday, noted that the debt rose to $66.1 billion, up […]

When President Joe Biden unveiled a $1.9 trillion stimulus proposal earlier this month, few were surprised by the plan’s hefty price tag or sweeping scope. More striking was Biden’s inclusion of a measure to more than double the federal minimum wage to $15. The move, backed by leading Democrats including left-wing Senator Bernie Sanders, establishes […]