WHY MONEY WILL NOT BE ENOUGH TO ADDRESS JAPAN’S BABY CRISIS

Tue 28 February 2023: Japanese women are having children later in life worried that motherhood will end their careers. Chika Hashimoto, a 23-year-old who recently graduated from Tokyo’s Temple University, is not averse to having a family in the future, but nor is she jumping at the opportunity. “It is definitely not my first choice,” […]

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IS SAUDI ARABIA PREPARING FOR THE COLLAPSE OF THE PETRODOLLAR AND US DOLLAR DOMINANCE?

Mon 27 February 2023:   One of the most illusory phenomena in our current existence is the money we use for buying, selling and hoarding on a daily basis. It is, to put it simply, in the air, backed up by nothing and reliant on nothing, yet at the same time highly delicate and sensitive […]

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SANCTIONS OR ASSAD: WHAT IS BLOCKING AID FROM ENTERING NORTHERN SYRIA?

Thu 23 February 2023: As the death toll from the earthquakes which rocked Turkiye and Syria continues to rise, many are questioning whether sanctions on Syria are preventing aid from reaching the war-torn country. After 12 years of civil war, most of Syria is once again under the control of the Assad regime, but a small […]

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CRACKDOWN ON CHILD MARRIAGE TEARS FAMILIES APART IN INDIA’S ASSAM

.  Abroan Nissa holds a photo of her husband arrested during the crackdown [Md Meharban/Al Jazeera]  Tue 21 February 2023: More than 3,000 people arrested this month, with the state’s BJP government accused of targeting Muslims in the ongoing drive. Assam, India – As Saidul Islam stares at rows of wilted cauliflowers and cabbages, the 33-year-old […]

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WHY INDIA’S LADAKH REGION IS NOW FIGHTING FOR FULL STATEHOOD

Sat 18 February 2023: Three years after Ladakh was separated from Indian-administered Kashmir, residents say they want more safeguards for land and livelihoods. On August 5, 2019, when Ladakh was separated from Indian-administered Kashmir and turned into a federally governed territory, the streets in its main city – the Buddhist-majority Leh – erupted in jubilation. […]

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ISRAEL PASSES LAW ALLOWING DEPORTATION OF PALESTINIAN PRISONERS

Thu 16 February 2023: New law will make it easier for authorities to revoke citizenship and residency of Palestinians in Israel and occupied East Jerusalem. Occupied East Jerusalem – The Israeli parliament has passed a law making it easier for authorities to revoke citizenship and residency from Palestinians imprisoned over Israeli-designated “acts of terror” and who […]

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THE DOGS HELPING FIND EARTHQUAKE SURVIVORS IN TURKEY

A rescue dog sniffs the debris of a ruined building while search and rescue operations continue on Feb. 9, 2023, in Elbistan, Turkey. – Mehmet Kacmaz/Getty Images Wed 15 February 2023: Trained rescue dogs are helping to find survivors buried underneath layers of concrete and otherwise undetectable. Hours after two huge earthquakes and hundreds of aftershocks struck […]

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A STATE-SPONSORED LAND GRAB IN JAMMU AND KASHMIR

Mon 13 February 2023: The ongoing ‘anti-encroachment’ drive in J&K against alleged ‘illegal occupation’ of state land looks like an unveiled attempt to create a land bank for ‘outsiders’ What’s wrong with the administration seeking to remove ‘encroachments’ from public land or ‘state land’? Plenty, people say in Jammu and Kashmir, where tehsildars have been […]

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