relief efforts

To better understand the history of the blockade, we’re joined now by Asaf Shariv, the Israeli Consul General to the U.S. We also speak with Philip Wilcox, the former American Consul General to Israel, about the larger implications of this confrontation.

Brazilian authorizes might feel a bit bewildered about all of the protests there. After all, conditions for Brazil’s poor have improved over the past decade. The World’s Jason Margolis has the story.

For most of us, when we want to make a major purchase, we apply for a loan. But what if you have no credit score? That’s the case for many immigrants living in the US. One non-profit in San Francisco has adopted a novel way to try and change that.

Oil-rich Qatar invests extensively around the world. France is one of the largest recipients of Qatari money. But a plan for Qatar to fund business opportunities in the heavily Muslim suburbs near Paris is controversial.

If you can provide a girl in a developing country with just a few years of education, you can break the cycle of poverty in a way that reverberates throughout a community.