Politics

Barack Hussein Obama II was born on August 4, 1961, in Hawaii. His parents, who met as students at the University of Hawaii, were Ann Dunham, a white American from Kansas, and Barack Obama, Sr., a black Kenyan studying in the United States. Obama’s father left the family when Obama was two and, after further studies at Harvard University, returned …

Paws off, plebeians. Morocco’s crown prince Moulay Hassan will have none of your weird hand pandering, thankyouverymuch.As a recent viral video demonstrates, misguided military officials who attempt to kiss the young royal’s hand are, as a rule, coolly rebuffed.

Workers should be allowed naps in the afternoon and encouraged to clock-in whenever they want, to encourage a more creative and productive workforce, an academic has suggested. [GARD]

Military camouflage is the use of camouflage by a military force to protect personnel and equipment from observation by enemy forces. In practice, this means applying colour and materials to military equipment of all kinds, including vehicles, ships, aircraft, gun positions and battledress, either to conceal it from observation , or to make it appear as something else . [GARD]

Mohammad bin Salman was born 1985 in Jeddah, is the deputy crown prince of Saudi Arabia, second deputy prime minister and the youngest minister of defense in the world. Mohammad is also chief of the House of Saud royal court, and chairman of the Council for Economic and Development Affairs.

Few foreign tourists visit North Korea, and even fewer get to see the metro stations in Pyongyang. Traveller’s itineraries are highly curated-if you wish to visit the Pyongyang metro stations you can only disembark at a couple stops. [GARD]

The United States presidential election of 2016, scheduled for Tuesday, November 8, 2016, will be the 58th quadrennial U.S. [GARD]

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army is the armed forces of the People’s Republic of China and the Communist Party of China. 1 August is celebrated annually as Army Day, commemorating the Nanchang Uprising on 1 August 1927. [GARD]

[GARD] 4. Ferial Govashiri She currently serves as the Personal Secretary to the President of the United States. She got her bachelor of political science from University of California, Irvine in 2005 and got into Politics in 2007 when she joined Obama’s Presidential Campaign working in the Department of Scheduling and Advance at his Chicago Headquarters. [GARD]