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Lawmakers in Washington will hold an oversight hearing Thursday examining the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the parent agency of Voice of America and other U.S.-funded media networks. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Eliot Engel, a New York Democrat, has issued a subpoena for Michael Pack, the USAGM CEO, to …

WHITE HOUSE – U.S. President Donald Trump has declined to confirm he is willing to agree to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses his November 3 bid for re-election to Democratic Party nominee Joe Biden.   “We’re going to have to see what happens,” said the president in response to a reporter’s question during a White House …

A grand jury in the U.S. city of Louisville, Kentucky, Wednesday charged a former police officer with wanton endangerment for shooting into the apartment of the neighbors of a Black woman, Breonna Taylor, who was killed during a bungled drug raid in March.  The grand jury decided that two other officers were justified in firing their weapons and cleared them of wrongdoing. No officers were charged directly …

OTTAWA, ONTARIO – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiled a plan Wednesday to address social inequalities laid bare by the coronavirus pandemic and create 1 million jobs during recovery, while also extending emergency measures for a second wave of COVID-19. In the so-called throne speech, read by Governor General Julie …

WASHINGTON – It will take some countries years to return to economic growth following the coronavirus crisis, which is lasting longer than expected, the No. 2 official at the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday. The Fund has provided some $90 billion in emergency financing to almost 80 countries, including 20 …

On this edition of Africa 54, the Sudanese government declares an economic emergency after the Sudanese pound loses 40 percent of its value in one month; Liberian Nobel laureate, Leymah Gbowee, announces a campaign against election-related violence in the country; Doctors and public health experts warn people in the northern …

India and China have agreed to not send more troops to a disputed border region in the Himalayas, where their respective troops engaged in deadly hand-to-hand fighting in June.  A joint statement released Tuesday says the agreement was reached after talks between senior military officials from both countries the day …

Modi is serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. Photo: Reuters/File Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was featured in TIME’s 100 list for 2020 most influential people, apparently, for all the wrong reasons. The annual list – which puts down 100 of the year’s most influential …

In a sweeping bipartisan vote that takes a government shutdown off the table, the House passed a temporary governmentwide funding bill Tuesday night, shortly after President Donald Trump prevailed in a behind-the-scenes fight over his farm bailout.  The stopgap measure will keep federal agencies fully up and running into December, …

The moderator of the Sept. 29 U.S. presidential debate between Democratic nominee Joe Biden and incumbent Republican President Donald Trump has released the six topics of discussion.  Trump and former Vice President Biden will debate their records in office, the current Supreme Court vacancy, COVID-19, the economy, race and violence …