Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas reviews honor guards with Japan‘s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) upon Abe‘s arrival in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Jan. 20, 2015.

Es besteht eine Verbindung zwischen der Zwangsumsiedlung von indigenen Menschen in Äthiopien und der Weltbank. Das hat eine interne Untersuchung der Institution ergeben, dessen vorläufiger Bericht an Medien durchgesickert ist. Es geht um eine Gesundheits- und Bildungsinitiative, in die in den vergangenen zehn Jahren fast zwei Milliarden Dollar investiert wurde. Aus diesem Topf sollen Regionalregierungen, aber auch die Gehälter von Beamten bezahlt worden sein, die indigene Anuak mit Gewalt umgesiedelt hatten.

Er blickt kurz auf die vergangenen 15 Jahre zurück, den 11. September, die Kriege in Afghanistan und im Irak, die Wirtschaftskrise. Und kündigt dann an, dieses Kapitel sei nun abgeschlossen, denn „der Schatten der Krise ist vorbeigezogen, die Nation ist stark“. Es sei nun an den Vereinigten Staaten zu entscheiden, wer man die nächsten 15 Jahre sein möchte.

President Barack Obama delivers his sixth State of the Union address, at the United States Capitol, January 20, 2015.

THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans:

We are 15 years into this new century. Fifteen years that dawned with terror touching our shores; that unfolded with a new generation fighting two long and costly wars; that saw a vicious recession spread across our nation and the world. It has been, and still is, a hard time for many.

„New sanctions passed by this Congress, at this moment in time, will all but guarantee that diplomacy fails — alienating America from its allies, and ensuring that Iran starts up its nuclear program again,“ the president warned lawmakers.

„It doesn’t make sense,“ he continued. „That is why I will veto any new sanctions bill that threatens to undo this progress. The American people expect us to only go to war as a last resort, and I intend to stay true to that wisdom.“

President Obama called on Congress to “a resolution to authorize the use of force against” ISIS in his State of the Union address — but what that will look like or even who will write the new authorization remains a mystery to most lawmakers.

Following the president’s speech, lawmakers from both parties expressed disappointment and confusion that President Obama did not say Tuesday that his administration will take the lead on language approving the U.S. military mission.

President Barack Obama used his State of the Union address on Tuesday night to urge Congress to pass legislation authorizing the ongoing war against Islamic State militants.

But the president gave no signs that he would start that process by sending Congress draft language for an Authorization for the Use of Military Force — something lawmakers have been waiting for him to do for months. To the contrary, White House officials signaled earlier in the day that Obama might not send language at all.

The sequencing of individual genomes, read-outs of a person‘s complete genetic information, could speed scientific research and help drug companies and physicians tailor medicines to an individual‘s genetic profile.

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If Democrats controlled Congress, Congress wouldn‘t have treated Obama‘s address like a dead letter and Obama might have tailored it more narrowly, careful not to ask for more than Congress could plausibly deliver. But Democrats don’t control Congress, and won’t control it again until Obama is no longer president. Under the circumstances, it stands to reason that when Obama proposes progressive policies like these, he’s playing a longer game