FW de Klerk: South Africa’s last apartheid president dies at 85 [BBC]
‘before Saddam we had one Saddam and now we have a thousand Saddams’
The comedian and political satirist Ahmed Albasheer is the most popular media figure in Iraq —half of the country regularly tunes into his show. An outspoken critic of government corruption, Albasheer has also lamented the failure of the 2003 U.S. inva…
Joseph Galloway (November 13, 1941 – August 18, 2021)
Mr. Galloway, a 24-year-old reporter for United Press International, went on to witness and participate in the first major battle of the Vietnam War, in which an outmanned American battalion fought off three North Vietnamese army regiments while taking…