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Arabic Sesame Street helps children explore emotions

Arabic Sesame Street helps children explore emotions

by Joe Snell | Mar 10, 2020 | Featured, Living

WASHINGTON — “Frustrated” was not a word used by five-year-old Tamer until he watched the children’s show “Ahlan Simsim,” the Arabic version of the “Sesame Street.” He learned the word from the show’s blue monster Gargur — Grover in...
US threatens to stop Yemen aid if Houthis don’t cooperate

US threatens to stop Yemen aid if Houthis don’t cooperate

by Joe Snell | Mar 9, 2020 | Featured, National Security

WASHINGTON — The United States will halt humanitarian assistance to Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen, where a majority of the country’s population lives, if the rebels refuse to remove obstacles to aid distribution. The announcement, made Feb. 25 by the US Agency for...
South Carolina churches play crucial role in national elections

South Carolina churches play crucial role in national elections

by Joe Snell | Mar 2, 2020 | Campaign2020, Featured, Living

  COLUMBIA, South Carolina — Through voter registration events and driving voters to the polls, Journey Church Associate Pastor Martin Quick wants his congregation of over 1,000 to take Saturday’s South Carolina Democratic primary vote seriously. Churches...
New solar park to ease Iraqi governorate’s power shortage

New solar park to ease Iraqi governorate’s power shortage

by Joe Snell | Feb 20, 2020 | Environment, Featured

DUHOK, Iraq — No one batted an eye when the power abruptly cut off in English teacher Miriam Zia’s 11th-grade classroom at the Sardam International School in Duhok. The cuts occur at least twice a day and are now “part of the fabric of our society,” Zia told...
Secret tip line aides U.S. in sanctioning Iranian officials

Secret tip line aides U.S. in sanctioning Iranian officials

by Joe Snell | Feb 19, 2020 | Featured, National Security

WASHINGTON — An encrypted line set up by the U.S. State Department is helping Iranians expose human rights violations by regime officials. The secret tip line is created amid escalating tensions between the two countries after the U.S. departure from the Iran Nuclear...
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