Wed 28 December 2022: Every 30 hours, the pandemic spawned a new billionaire, while pushing a million people into poverty. Here’s why. Death and devastation are not the only calling cards COVID-19 will be remembered by. The pandemic has also drastically widened inequalities across the globe over the past three years. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires […]
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Mon 26 December 2022: The land question was at the heart of the South African national liberation struggle. The 1913 Natives Land Act restricted black people from owning and occupying parts of the country, leading to whites owning about 87% of the land. This reduced the African majority to “pariahs in the land of their birth”, […]
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Mon 26 December 2022: There is, by any standard, a terrifying phenomenon to which nobody is paying much attention; not even the media is making us aware of the potentially awful consequences. This phenomenon has appeared little by little in many countries, especially in the Arab world and the so-called Third World in general. I’m […]
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Thu 22 December 2022: Ivory Coast is the world’s top cocoa producing country but receives just four percent of the chocolate industry’s estimated annual worth of $100bn. Soubre, Ivory Coast – On a small cocoa plantation in the southwest of Ivory Coast, a group of men hack away at the yellow and red fruit used to […]
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Wed 21 December 2022: Alleged murder of Cassius is the latest in a number of attacks on Australia’s Indigenous children and young people. Melbourne, Australia – Australia was again forced to confront what experts say is “deeply entrenched” racism this year after the alleged murder of a 15 year old Indigenous boy, Cassius Turvey, shocked the […]
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Thu 15 December 2022: Uzbekistan has poured cold water on a potential alliance in another sign Central Asia is keeping Russia at arm’s length. Kyiv, Ukraine – The Uzbek official sounded like he was talking about his nation’s freedom. “We will never compromise our national interests,” Energy Minister Zhurabek Mirzamakhmudov told the Kun.uz news website, an […]
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Thu 08 December 2022: Chinese President Xi arrives in Saudi Arabia to much fanfare, unlike the low-key welcome afforded to US President Biden. Chinese President Xi Jinping is in Riyadh for a three-day trip, underscoring the constantly growing importance of Sino-Saudi relations, and a clear message from Saudi Arabia that it will not take diktats from […]
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Sun 04 December 2022: Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter has been tumultuous, to say the least. Twitter Verification has been rolled out and everyone interested in the service can pay $8 a month to get verified and receive benefits, such as the coveted blue tick, with a potential for higher visibility and reach on the platform. In […]
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Tue 29 November 2022: The stakes for what happens after tonight’s match are very high as a win will catapult Iran into the elimination stage for the first time in history. Tehran, Iran – It is Iran versus the United States in the Qatar World Cup 2022 on Wednesday. There’s survival at stake. But for the majority of the millions […]
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Mon 28 November 2022: Chinese censors are scrambling to scrub references to protest codewords and demonstration hotspots like Xinjiang. Taipei, Taiwan – Chinese internet users and government censors are engaged in a cat-and-mouse game to control the narrative around the country’s anti-“zero COVID” protests. Protests began in Urumqi, the capital of the far-western Xinjiang region, on […]
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