Washington DC, 19/10: They were teachers and lawyers, military veterans and fired government employees. Children and grandmothers, students and retirees. Arriving in droves across the country in major cities and small towns, they appeared in costumes, blared music, brandished signs, hoisted American flags and cheered at the honks of passing cars.    

Washington/UN, 13/12: International troops could be deployed in the Gaza Strip as early as next month to form a U.N.-authorized stabilization force, two U.S. officials told Reuters, but it remains unclear how Palestinian militant group Hamas will be disarmed.   The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the International Stabilization Force would not fight…

Washington DC, 27/11: President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday evening that he had selected Dr Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford physician and economist whose authorship of an anti-lockdown treatise during the coronavirus pandemic made him a central figure in a bitter public health debate, to be the director of the National Institutes of Health.

Harare, 23/7: Teenage batting sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi became the youngest player in men’s international cricket to score a half-century, reaching the landmark in just 18 balls, as India crushed Zimbabwe by seven wickets in the first of the three-match T20 series at Harare.   The 15-year-old broke the world record previously held by Nepal’s Kushal…