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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 post-mortem examination conducted on Kevin Smith, the sanitation worker who died on Sunday following an accident at the Infectious Diseases Hospital, Liliendaal, revealed his cause of death as multiple injuries.
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Today is the 317th day of 2020. There are 49 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2011: A chorus of Handel's Alleluia rings out as Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Italian premier, ending a tumultuous 17-year political era and setting in motion a transition aimed at bringing the country back from the brink of economic crisis.�OTHER EVENTS
By AVET DEMOURIAN Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Thousands of people protested in Armenia's capital on Wednesday, demanding the prime minister's resignation after he signed an agreement with Azerbaijan to halt weeks of fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh that calls for territorial concessions in favor of Azerbaijan. The rally organized by opposition parties in Yerevan reportedly drew up to 10,000 people. Some clashed with police, and many were detained and released later in the day. Demonstrators chanted 'Nikol, go away' and 'Nikol, the traitor,' referring to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian. The unrest was triggered by a Moscow-brokered truce Armenia and […]
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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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Ambassador Charles A. James was born in 1922 in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he attended public schools. After high school, James enrolled at Westchester State Teachers College in Pennsylvania (now Westchester University) where he studied for one year before enlisting in the U.S. Navy during World War II where he served for three years. James received his B.A. from Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont in 1949 and an LL.B. from Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut in 1952. In 1977, Middlebury College conferred an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree on Ambassador James for his lifetime of public service.
James practiced law in Sacramento and Stockton, California for ten years. In Stockton, he served as area President of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) covering northern California and Nevada. In 1961, James was appointed Assistant Attorney General for the State of California by Attorney General Stanley Mosk. James played a significant role in the enactment of truth in lending legislation in California and negotiated changes in the packaging practices of 21 major cosmetic firms. He also served as chairman of the staff to the Committee for Youth and Children in the California State Assembly.
In 1964, James became the Deputy Director and later, Director of the Peace Corps, first in Ghana and then Uganda. He later served in an administrative position for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Thailand and Vietnam. In 1974 he joined the U.S. Foreign Service and from 1974 to 1976, he worked as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs in the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C. During his tenure as Deputy Assistant Secretary, James headed the U.S. delegation to the African Economic Commission.
On September 16, 1976, President Gerald Ford nominated James as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Niger. After confirmation by the U.S. Senate, Ambassador Nelson traveled to Niamey, the capital, to
