Fri 02 August 2024: Many recent movements, including Black Lives Matter and Occupy Wall Street, started out strong but often didn’t lead to lasting changes. Here’s why. The 21st century has been a time of immense global protest. With the Green Movement in 2009, Iran saw its biggest protests since the 1979 revolution, as thousands of people […]
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Wed 31 July 2024: South Africa is changing its pension laws. The new system is designed to give individuals the opportunity to access only a portion of their retirement funds before they retire in the case of dire need – or even in case of desire. To an extent, this makes sense, given the low savings rate […]
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Tue 30 July 2024: The problem of misinformation isn’t going away – and may be getting worse, in the wake of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. Internet platforms like Facebook and X have taken some steps to curb its spread and say they are working on doing more. But no method yet introduced has been […]
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Tue 30 July 2024: The world has at least 58 million US dollar millionaires, accounting for 1.5 percent of the global adult population, according to the 2024 UBS Global Wealth Report (PDF), which sampled 56 markets that account for 92 percent of global wealth. The United States has the highest number of millionaires, with some […]
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Mon 29 July 2024: The 2024 Paris Olympics aim to be the greenest edition on record, and the first compatible with the Paris climate agreement. Talk of “green games” goes back to April 2021. At the time, the Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (OCOG) had even aspired to carbon neutrality by removing more greenhouse gases […]
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Thu 25 July 2024: India’s government is targeting the acclaimed author because she speaks to the most foundational corruptions that underlie the socioeconomic and political pillars of the Indian state. After they unexpectedly lost their parliamentary majority in this year’s election and were forced to enter into a coalition government, I predicted that India’s governing Hindu nationalists […]
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Wed 24 July 2024: India’s middle class is much poorer than China’s after decades of strong growth despite starting at a similar base. Ten million dollars to fly Justin Bieber to India’s financial capital Mumbai for an evening’s performance. An 800-guest cruise around the Mediterranean costing $150m. A wedding ceremony featuring hundreds of guests and a price […]
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Mon 22 July 2024: India had nearly 1.2 million excess deaths in 2020, new data shows. The life expectancy of Muslims fell the most among all Indians – by more than five years. New Delhi, India – India’s actual death toll during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic that ravaged the world’s most populous country […]
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The Houthis see a Jewish conspiracy behind for the campaign against them. But in the Yemeni civil war of the 1960s, Israel helped the Shiite tribes from which the rebels hail. Sun 21 July 2024: Yemen’s Houthi rebels accuse Israel of standing behind the Saudi-led military campaign launched against them in February. The charge is not […]
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Thu 18 July 2024: Since the early 2000s, Kenya has come up with legislative changes and thrown a tremendous amount of funding at a range of reforms to improve the relationship between police and citizens. Specifically, these reforms have been aimed at addressing impunity and human rights abuses. Police reform was a crucial part of president Mwai Kibaki’s […]
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