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David R. Sands

dsands@washingtontimes.com

David R. Sands covered numerous beats, including international trade, banking, politics and Capitol Hill, and spent eight years on the foreign desk as senior diplomatic correspondent. He has authored The Times' weekly chess column since 1993.

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A man passes the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, June 24, 2016. Britain voted to leave the European Union after a bitterly divisive referendum campaign, toppling the prime minister Friday, sending global markets plunging and shattering the stability of a project in continental unity designed half a century ago to prevent World War III. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

U.S. stocks plummet at opening after U.K. Brexit vote

The Dow Jones index of leading stocks fell nearly 500 points, or 3 percent, in the first minutes of trading Friday morning, as traders were still reeling from the shock vote the day before that will take Britain out of the European Union.

June 24, 2016
Anderssen-Steinitz after 35…Ne3+.

DAVID R. SANDS: A chess match from an age when titans came ready for battle

The world title match between Norwegian champion Magnus Carlsen and Russian challenger Sergey Karjakin, set for New York City in November, will almost certainly be more subtle, more sophisticated, more finely balanced than the world title match that was played 150 years ago this month in London.

May 31, 2016
Nepomniachtchi-Sjugirov after 9…Bxg5.

DAVID R. SANDS: Sometimes a chess grandmaster proves a friend in need

If you want a friend in this game, queen a pawn. OK, that's not a real chess saying, but there is this idea out there that it's an every-man-for-himself world out there among elite grandmasters, that the top players are lone wolves forced to hunt solo to survive. The reality is far different.

May 17, 2016
Vendors selling fruit from their push carts on the streets of Harare, Sunday, May 1, 2016, as Zimbabwe joined the rest of the world in commemorating International Workers Day, which is held annually to recognise the economic and social achievements of workers globally. According the African Development Bank statistics, over two thirds of the country's population are employed in the 'informal' sector.(AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Zimbabwe economic crisis deepening, IMF report says

Wracked by drought, deflation and falling world commodity prices, the Zimbabwean economy faces deepening economic difficulties with little relief in sight, the International Monetary Fund said in a new report Wednesday.

May 4, 2016
President Barack Obama speaks at the International Jazz Day Concert on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, in this Friday, April 29, 2016, file photo. Obama is set to meet with residents of Flint, Michigan, to hear how they're managing after lead from old pipes tainted their drinking water. And he is bringing a message to Flint on Wednesday, May 4, 2016 — a promise for change. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Flint water crisis may trigger racism investigations by U.N.

As President Obama travels to Flint, Michigan, Wednesday to highlight the city's water contamination crisis, the United Nations said it might initiate a human rights complaint in the case based on racism and class bias, a narrative the White House didn't dispute.

May 3, 2016
Flint, Mich., residents and supporters wear shirts that reads "Flint Lives Matter" as they wait outside a committee hearing on the Flint water crisis in Washington on March 17, 2016. In proposing a tougher limit for lead in drinking water, Gov. Rick Snyder wants to lift Michigan from the depths of the Flint crisis to being a model for water safety that can help assess whether the current national rules governing lead are too lax. (Associated Press) **FILE**

U.S. racism, class discrimination to blame for Flint water scandal: U.N.

The United Nations is weighing whether to insert itself in the probe into contaminated drinking water for residents of Flint, Michigan, after a trio of U.N. human rights experts in Switzerland said that racism and class discrimination may have played a key role in the scandal.

May 3, 2016