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Yemen troops, Saudi-led coalition attack Al Qaida militants in south

SANAA / AP Hundreds of Yemeni troops loyal to the internationally recognized president have launched an operation to drive Al Qaida and IS fighters out of southern coastal areas the extremists have seized amid the country’s complex civil war, security officials said on Sunday. They said the forces loyal to President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi are receiving air support from ...

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Nepal marks 1 year since quake as frustration mounts

  Kathmandu / AFP Nepal held memorial services on Sunday for the thousands killed in a massive earthquake one year ago, as victims still huddled in tents across the country accused the government of failing them. Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli laid flowers at a destroyed 19th-century tower in Kathmandu, where hundreds gathered to remember the devastating quake that ...

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The ‘settled’ consensus du jour

Authoritarianism, always latent in progressivism, is becoming explicit. Progressivism’s determination to regulate thought by regulating speech is apparent in the campaign by 16 states’ attorneys general and those of the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands, none Republican, to criminalize scepticism about the supposedly “settled” conclusions of climate science. Four core tenets of progressivism are: First, history has a ...

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