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‘Conditions in Yemen are catastrophic.’
John Ging, UN director of aid operations, on the mounting humanitarian crisis in war-torn Yemen. More than 22 million people in Yemen are reportedly in need of food aid, the fastest-growing cholera epidemic has infected 1.1 million people, and 3 million people are displaced.
‘You’re putting wolves before your flock, and they are going to make a massacre.’
Retired Cardinal Joseph Zen, who is opposing Pope Francis’ decision to recognize Chinese bishops appointed by the Communist regime in Beijing.
‘We know that this might have inconvenienced some of you.’
KFC to customers, after running out of chicken in nearly all of its U.K. restaurants in February.
‘We’re going to be fighting from space in a matter of years.’
Gen. David Goldfein, chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, on the need for the Air Force to develop capabilities to fight wars from space and “embrace space superiority with the same passion and sense of ownership as we apply to air superiority today.”
‘If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, O.J. Simpson would still be in the record books.’
Broward County, Fla., Sheriff Scott Israel on whether his department could have stopped the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., had it acted differently. The department had received at least 18 calls warning about shooter Nikolas Cruz’s behavior prior to the shooting, and at least one armed school resource officer remained outside the school during the shooting. Israel said his leadership has been “amazing.”
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