At least 773 people have been killed in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) largest city of Goma and its vicinity in a week, amid fighting with Rwanda-backed M23 rebels who captured the city in a serious escalation of a decade-long conflict, authorities said. “These figures remain provisional because the rebels asked the population … Read more
President Bashar al-Assad’s political survival was under threat on Saturday as his government battled opposition rebellions around the country and one of his most important allies, Iran, pared back military support. By Saturday morning, the main rebel offensive that began on Nov. 27 had reached the outskirts of the strategic city of Homs, only about … Read more
Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory,” wrote Winston Churchill. “He who enjoys it wields a power more durable than that of a great king.” Churchill, considered one of the greatest English orators of all time, wrote those words when he was but 22, … Read more