Category: Animal
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Siberian tigers are being hunted at night for their body parts To investigate the status of Amur tigers in Russia, Skidmore made two trips to Primorye, in 2019 and 2020, totaling five months. She interviewed more than a hundred hunters and 12 buyers of tiger parts. The talks ranged from 30-minute chats to “multiple-day informal…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
In Iraq, Christmas is becoming many Muslims’ favorite new holiday Christmas has been classified as a holiday in Iraq since 2018, but that designation was up for annual renewal. Now it’s permanent. This is relatively unusual in the Middle East. While they may celebrate Christmas in some way, only four other nations out of 20…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Is President Xi Jinping undoing capitalism in China? In the last 40 years, China has become the only global economy to rival the U.S. But President Xi Jinping is cracking down on some of the private sectors, companies and individuals that led to the country’s prosperity. Lesley Stahl reports. #XiJinping #China #capitalism #Asia AWS appears to be down,…
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War: We’re Killing Each Other and the Planet
The U.S. Department of Defense is one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases. And it is also one of the largest consumers of fossil fuels. If the U.S. Military was a nation, it would be #47 in the world for being an emitter. The DOD is also a mass consumer of resources; in the…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Cultural Revolutions If this theory strikes you as ridiculous, it is enough for now to bear in mind that no matter how different you believe China to be from the United States, there are lessons from Ai’s history that are uncomfortably easy to recognize: “If you try to understand your country,” he writes, “it’s enough…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Thousands Of South Korean Union Members Donned ‘Squid Game’ Costumes To Protest Working Conditions As Squid Game continues to be a record-breaking international phenomenon, the Netflix series‘ anti-capitalist messaging is spurring real-world action thanks to a recent protest in South Korea. According to reports, over 27,000 people took to the streets in Seoul, where members of the South Korean…
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The Week in Stories Around Globe
The most vaccinated countries on Earth Iceland is ranked seventh, with 77 per cent of the population fully vaccinated. Another 15 percent have had a booster shot. #Iceland #China #UAE #COVID19 The US Is Officially A Banana Republic: The Top 1% Now Own More Wealth Than The Entire Middle Class Alas, since November 2019 it has only…
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The Evolved Man of the Week: Eric Marky
Welcome to the Evolving Man Project’s “Evolved Man of the Week” profile. Each week we will highlight an individual that embodies what it means to be an evolved person, famous and non-famous individual alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to the co-founder of Mídia Índia, musician, artist,…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
‘Overwhelmed by old challenges’, Caribbean leaders say COVID-19 has forced a new battle for the survival of their nations Caribbean island nations are under assault from the coronavirus pandemic even as they try to protect their communities from rising seas and raging storms, regional leaders said Saturday at the UN, where they called for bold…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
US Border Agents Are Removing Haitian Migrants Using Horses and Whips “This is why your country’s shit, because you use your women for this,” one officer on horseback shouted at a group of Haitian women who were crossing the Rio Grande with bags of food, showed one report by Al Jazeera. #Haiti #borderpatrol #JoeBidensAmerica Five years on:…
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