THE SCRIPT goes like this. First, the government cuts subsidies on basic goods such as bread, sparking riots. Middle-class people, including doctors and university lecturers, then take to the streets of the capital, Khartoum, spearheading a national uprising against military dictatorship. The regime responds by deploying police and security forces. Civilians are arrested and beaten;…
WASHINGTON — President Trump moved to replace the top ranks of the Department of Homeland Security on Monday, a day after forcing the resignation of its secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, as he accelerated a purge of the nation’s immigration and security leadership. The White House announced the departure of Randolph D. Alles, the director of the…
FDA approves Glaxo’s two-drug HIV regimen. The Food and Drug Administraiton (FDA) on Monday approved British drug giant GlaxoSmithKline’s pioneering two-drug combo therapy to treat a form of HIV. “Currently, the standard of care for patients who have never been treated is a three-drug regimen. With this approval, patients who have never been treated have…
Kirstjen Nielsen is out as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, President Donald Trump tweeted Sunday, amid ongoing controversy over a surge in Central American asylum-seekers crossing at the US-Mexico border. "Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen will be leaving her position, and I would like to thank her for her service," he tweeted.…
OVER THE past four years, Binyamin Netanyahu has refused most interview requests. But as he fights for a fifth term as prime minister, in what looks likely to be a close election on April 9th, he has hit the television studios to appeal to right-wing voters. In an interview on April 6th he offered Israelis…
WASHINGTON — Kirstjen Nielsen, the homeland security secretary, is leaving her position, President Trump announced on Sunday, ending a tumultuous tenure in charge of the border security agency that had at times made her the target of the president’s criticism. The move comes just two days after Mr. Trump, who has repeatedly expressed anger at…
In 1992, the U.S. witnessed the trial of John Gotti, the election of President Bill Clinton and the devastating arrival of Hurricane Andrew on the Florida coastline, causing a then-record $25 billion in damage. Further afield, it was also the year that Prince Charles initiated the world’s most-watched break-up by separating from Princess Diana. So,…
China is waging a global campaign against the Uighurs, a majority-Muslim ethnic minority concentrated in its western frontier of Xinjiang. In the last two years the country has ordered tech companies to spy on their phones, outlawed Muslim practices like wearing a beard or going to prayers, and detained at least one million of them…
THE VEHICLES on Beijing’s boulevards offer little evidence that China has a car industry at all. Range Rovers seem to outnumber all the Havals, Changans and BYDs put together; you sometimes see nothing but a stream of Volkswagens and Toyotas. And when you notice how slowly those congested streams flow you would certainly be hard…
Health officials say that disclosing outbreaks frightens patients about a situation they can do nothing about, particularly when the risks are unclear. “It’s hard enough with these organisms for health care providers to wrap their heads around it,” said Dr. Anna Yaffee, a former C.D.C. outbreak investigator who dealt with resistant infection outbreaks in Kentucky…
