07/10/2021 14:10 - The Tanzanian writer who moved to Britain as a refugee in the 1960s was honored for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism.” ...
07/10/2021 13:10 - One of the first things the New York Times photographer Tyler Hicks witnessed after arriving in Afghanistan in late 2001, soon after U.S. airstrikes on Oct. 7 opened the invasion, was the execution of a wounded Taliban fighter. The scene shocked him, upending everything he thought he knew about war and about the Afghan Northern Alliance — the U.S.-aligned fighters who had been his guides and protectors, and the Talib’s killers. ...
07/10/2021 12:10 - The home treatment, molnupiravir, is said by the company to potentially halve the risk of hospitalization and death from the virus. ...
07/10/2021 12:10 - Stacey Abrams says the infrastructure of voting is being eviscerated and the utility of a democratically elected government attacked. ...