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“I beat China all the time,” Mr. Trump said last year, citing one Manhattan investment. But documents and interviews tell a very different story of that deal.
With the administration struggling to resettle Syrians and preparing to deport more Central Americans, allies and advocacy groups say the president’s actions do not match his words.
Three years after a factory collapse prompted top brands to commit to bettering worker conditions in Bangladesh, rights groups say problems persist.
The emergence of an older homeless population is creating daunting challenges for social service agencies and governments already struggling to fight poverty.
Buskers at the memorial to John Lennon in Central Park seem to have found a precarious harmony after years of fighting over who got to perform and when.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 25, 2016, covering May 31, 2016.
Drake
Beyonce
Radiohead
Keith Urban
Prince
2016Mohamed Abdelaziz, President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (1976–2016) (born 1947)[†]
Mohamed Abdelaziz ben Khalili ben Mohamed al-Bachir Er-Rguibi was the 3rd Secretary General of the Polisario Front, from 1976, and the President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic from 1982, until his death in 2016.
2016Jan Crouch, American televangelist, co-founder of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (born 1938)[†]
Janice Wendell Crouch was an American religious broadcaster. Crouch and her husband, Paul, founded the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) in 1973.
2016Carla Lane, English television writer (born 1928)[†]
Romana Barrack, better known as Carla Lane, was an English screenwriter who became known for creating or co-creating successful British sitcoms such as The Liver Birds (1969–1979), Butterflies (1978–1983), and Bread (1986–1991).
2016Rupert Neudeck, German journalist and humanitarian (born 1939)[†]
Rupert Neudeck was a German theologican, journalist and aid worker, especially with refugees.
2016Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) launch the Manbij offensive, in order to capture the city of Manbij from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).[†]
The Syrian civil war began with the Syrian revolution in March 2011, when popular discontent with the Ba'athist regime ruled by Bashar al-Assad triggered large-scale protests and pro-democracy rallies across Syria, as part of the wider Arab Spring. The Assad regime responded to the protests with lethal force, sparking a civil war. The Syrian revolution lasted almost 14 years and culminated in the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024. Many sources regard this as the end of the civil war.
In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[†]