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By: Alyssa Wilson Authorities in Haiti have arrested more people in connection to the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. Taiwan's Embassy was raided after several suspects were believed to have sought refuge there. Two Haitian-Americans and several former Colombian soldiers were also arrested in connection, the Associated Press reported. PREVIOUS: Two Haitian Americans Detained In Connection to Assassination of Haitian President The new arrests bring the total number of suspects to 17, according to National Police Chief Léon Charles. 'We are going to bring them to justice,' he said Thursday. Colombia's government has offered full cooperation and revealed that some of the suspects detained […]
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South Africa is one of the hardest-hit countries in Africa with over 740,000 infections.
The country recorded 60 more virus-related deaths on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 20,011.
A review of state distribution plans reveals that officials don’t know how they’ll deal with the difficult storage and transport requirements of Pfizer’s vaccine, especially in the rural areas currently seeing a spike in infections. By Isaac Arnsdorf, Ryan Gabrielson and Caroline Chen, ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest […]
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President Cyril Ramaphosa has made a lockdown address to the nation on Wednesday night - and he came equipped with a major announcement on alcohol.
Did you know that the women of Delta Sigma Theta have a long history of being trailblazers in foriegn affairs? It's true! The first Black female ambassador of the US to a foriegn country was actually a member of Delta Sigma Theta. To celebrate their success in the field, we at Watch The Yard have […]
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Her appointment followed upon three and a half years as ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic, and before that a brief stint as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Astana, Kazakhstan. Previously she served as Consul General in Vladivostok, Russia from 2002 to 2004. From 2000 to 2002 she was Assistant Coordinator at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. Her reputation in Washington inner circles was sufficiently high to have her name mentioned in one Washington Post article listing rumored possible nominees for the post of Ambassador to Russia that was filled in early 2014.
Born in Columbus, Ohio on July 14, 1954 to parents Thaddeus and Lois Price Spratlen, and raised in Washington State and California, Pamela Spratlen graduated from Crenshaw High School in Los Angeles in 1972 and earned a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Wellesley College in Massachusetts in 1976. After graduation, she returned to California to work for the Los Angeles-based Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) and other public service organizations. In 1981 she earned an M.A. from the School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and she holds an additional Master’s in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College in Washington, D.C. That M.A. was received in 2006. From 1981 to 1989, Spratlen served as senior consultant in Sacramento to the California Legislature’s Joint Legislative Budget and Assembly Ways and Means Committees, advising them on oversight of the state’s $3 billion higher education budget.
Spratlen first joined the U.S. State Department in 1990 as an economic officer, and spent her first tour in Guatemala, 1990-1992. She also participated in two multilateral missions, the U.S. Mission to the Organization of American States from 1992 to 1994, and the U.S. Mission to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development from 1995 to 1998. She worked in the Executive Secretariat of the State Department from 1999-2000. The foreign languages she commands are Russian, French, and Spanish.
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Alabama Montgomery: State well being officers are urging individuals to serve up a heaping facet of precaution at Thanksgiving, as the vacation comes amid a nationwide surge in COVID-19 circumstances.…
By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Bahrain's Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, one of the world's longest-serving prime ministers who led his island nation's government for decades and survived the 2011 Arab Spring protests that demanded his ouster over corruption allegations, died on Wednesday. He was 84. Bahrain's state-run news agency announced his death, saying he had been receiving treatment at the Mayo Clinic in the United States, without elaborating. The Mayo Clinic declined to comment. Prince Khalifa's power and wealth could be seen everywhere in this small nation off the coast of Saudi […]
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Today, following the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse early Wednesday, July 7, Helen La Lime, the United Nations Special Envoy to Haiti, said that interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph will assume executive power. 'In the event of the death of a president, the current government assumes executive powers, and then the prime minister presides … Continued
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THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY — Most frightening for Democrats, one in three African-American men living in the Midwest also voted for Trump. The NBC poll also noted that there was an unusual relationship between education and how Black men voted this year. About 26 percent of African-American males who had a high school diploma or less supported Trump. But 22 percent of Black men with bachelor’s degrees and 20 percent of Black men with advanced degrees also supported him. (African-American males with some college education broke for Biden at levels comparable to those of Black women.)
