By Agence France-Presse Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake thanked voters Friday for delivering his leftist coalition a landslide victory in snap parliamentary elections that repudiated establishment parties blamed for triggering an economic crisis. Dissanayake, a self-avowed Marxist, swept September presidential elections on a promise to combat graft and recover stolen assets, two years after […]
By Agence France-Presse Political science student Saul Lara awakes around 4:00 am to begin his long journey — over two hours by motorcycle taxi and crowded metro — from the outskirts of Mexico City to school. The tiring commute illustrates the hardships brought by a crippling housing crisis in the Mexican capital, which has particularly […]
By Agence France-Presse Hundreds of people fled Friday as Typhoon Man-Yi bore down on the Philippines, threatening yet more destruction even as rescuers tried to reach people stranded on rooftops by the last tropical cyclone. Five major storms have battered the archipelago nation in the last three weeks, killing at least 163 people and prompting […]