Month: January 2021

Three large machines called turbines produce electricity at the Buck Combined Cycle Station in central North Carolina, near the town of Salisbury. Tall chimneys that once released smoke into the…

Some Cuban-Americans believe the death of Fidel Castro means human rights abuses in Cuba will end. Jose Sanchez is one of them. “We had a bad dictator that had Cuba…

Social media use has risen sharply in Cameroon, as have the government’s efforts to control it. Our story begins at a church in Limbe, in southwestern Cameroon. These church members…

The Iraqi government campaign to retake Mosul from Islamic State, or IS, militants has resulted in major damage to nearby towns and villages. But the fighting has not stopped sales…

Hundreds of thousands of Afghans have been displaced from their homes because of continuing violence in the country. They face severe hardship as the country’s harsh winter approaches. The United…

The United States is made up of 50 states, the District of Columbia and 16 territories. Five of these territories are permanently inhabited. They are the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,…

Americans are traveling internationally more than ever, the U.S. Commerce Department says. , Americans took 74 million trips abroad. That is a nine percent increase from 2014. It is also…

The top appeals court in Egypt overturned life sentences against former Egyptian President Mohammad Morsi and officials of the Muslim Brotherhood. The court cancelled the second of two life sentences…

Japanese troops arrived in South Sudan this week to join a United Nations peacekeeping force. The troops are replacing a group of Japanese peacekeepers who served in the U.N. Mission…

“Post-Truth” is Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year. The Oxford Dictionaries website told readers post-truth could be “one of the defining words of our time.” The term comes from an…

A new study finds that the natural death of a dictator does not usually lead to a change in a county’s governmental system. In other words, remaining leaders are unlikely…

The number of people in the United States without a home is down from one year ago. The total is nearly 550,000, about 3 percent lower than in 2015. The…

Donald Trump supporters expect him to carry out his campaign promises. “I expect him to move quickly with his rock-the-boat agenda,” said Republican Senator David Vitter of Louisiana. By rock…

Kenya is the third-largest tea producer in the world. Almost all of the tea grown in the East African nation is exported. Black tea is responsible for nearly all of…

Coast Province in Kenya is known for its natural beauty. For years, many Europeans have traveled to the area to see its white sands, blue waters and the sails of…