Most leaders I speak with are now engaged in one or more types of transformation. Their business has changed, they are responding or getting ahead, but many are not seeing the expected transformation results. Why? An often-overlooked fact is that a successful transformation requires passion. […]
Day: September 12, 2021
Photographing 9/11: ‘What did they think as they jumped?’
It was September 2001 and I had been sent to New York to cover a boxing match for a Puerto Rican newspaper. It was a world championship bout between Puerto Rican boxer Felix Trinidad and the American boxer Bernard Hopkins. Trinidad was a good friend […]
Villagers flee homes as Spanish wildfire blazes for fifth day
People fled their homes in six more Andalusian towns and villages on Sunday as Spain sent in a military unit to help tackle blazes raging close to a Costa del Sol resort. A wildfire fanned by strong winds has now driven out close to 2,000 […]
Pope calls for openness after meeting Hungary’s Orban
Pope Francis has met Hungary’s anti-migration Prime Minister Viktor Orban on a whistlestop trip to the country in which he called for greater openness, before heading for a four-day tour of Slovakia. During the visit to Hungary on Sunday that lasted just seven hours, the […]
UN to distribute cash aid to Gaza families, envoy says
The United Nations will begin on Monday to distribute cash aid to thousands of poor families in the besieged Gaza Strip under a programme funded by Qatar, the UN Middle East envoy has said. Qatar has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to Gaza since […]
Why is Guantanamo Bay still open?
From: Inside Story US President Biden faces legal and political challenges to close notorious prison. Article source: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2021/9/12/why-is-guantanamo-bay-still-open
Qatar foreign minister in Afghanistan in first high-level visit
Qatar’s Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani has visited Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul and met Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, the acting Prime Minister in the Taliban’s new government. He also met on Sunday with former President Hamid Karzai as well as Abdullah Abdullah, the head […]
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo announces French presidential bid
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has announced she will run for president in next year’s election, joining a growing list of challengers to centrist incumbent Emmanuel Macron. The 62-year-old daughter of Spanish immigrants who fled Francisco Franco’s dictatorship is the hot favourite to win […]
Will California Gov Gavin Newsom be kicked out in recall vote?
San Francisco, California – The Democratic governor of a deep blue state could be removed by Republicans. California Governor Gavin Newsom faces a high-stakes election on September 14 that threatens to replace him with one of the dozens of candidates, including a popular conservative radio […]
It is time to stop playing Jenga with US foreign policy
“A terrible time for our country … I don’t know what you call it – a military defeat or a psychological defeat,” said former US President Donald Trump in an August 17 interview on Fox TV. He was referring to the decision of his successor, […]