Day: January 21, 2023
Door of No Return: Yellen Visits Onetime Slave-Trading Post
January 21, 2023
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen paid a solemn visit Saturday to the salmon-colored house on an island off Senegal that is one of the most recognized symbols of the horrors of the Atlantic slave trade that trapped tens of millions of Africans in bo…
Sections of Balkan River Become Floating Garbage Dump
January 21, 2023
Tons of waste dumped in poorly regulated riverside landfills or directly into the waterways that flow across three countries end up accumulating behind a trash barrier in the Drina River in eastern Bosnia during the wet weather of winter and early spri…