Category: Science
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The Week In Stories Around the Globe

For These African Migrants, Life in China Isn’t What They Promised “More and more Gambian migrants are giving up on their “Chinese Dream” and doing whatever they can to head home. “ #Gambia#China#Migrants#International Black science fiction writers face ‘universal’ racism, study finds “The world of speculative fiction publishing is plagued by “structural, institutional, personal,…
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The Week In Stories Around the Globe

The climate crisis is already here – but no one’s telling us “What is salient is not important. What is important is not salient. The media turns us away from the issues that will determine the course of our lives, and towards topics of brain-melting irrelevance” #ClimateChange #FossilFuels Uganda’s morals police are investing $88,000 in…
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THE WEEK IN STORIES AROUND THE GLOBE

Nicaraguans are using crowdsourcing technology to prove that a good map can change your life “Taking a bus in Latin America can be a disorienting experience. While the light rail systems in places like Mexico City, Buenos Aires, and Rio de Janeiro have system maps that are fairly easy to understand, most cities…
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THE WEEK IN STORIES AROUND THE GLOBE

US airstrikes allegedly kill at least 73 civilians in northern Syria US airstrikes on a Syrian village have killed at least 73 civilians, a majority of them women and children, activists say, in the deadliest coalition attack on non-combatants since the start of the bombing campaign against the Islamic State. #WaronTerror #SyriaCrisis #MilitaryIndustrialComplex If All…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe

Islamic State tightens grip on women held as sex slaves The advertisement, along with others for kittens, tactical gear and weapons, appeared on an encrypted Telegram app and was shared with The Associated Press by an activist with Iraq’s persecuted Yazidi community, which is trying to free an estimated 3,000 women and girls still held…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe

Former Brazil president Lula poised for corruption trial, associates fear “The justices will take a position in the coming days, in the coming weeks, not only with respect to this case, but also with respect to plea bargains that complement my plea bargain,” he said. “What we can see is that the circle…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe

Here Is The Powerful Letter The Stanford Victim Read Aloud To Her Attacker “A former Stanford swimmer who sexually assaulted an unconscious woman was sentenced to six months in jail because a longer sentence would have “a severe impact on him,” according to a judge. At his sentencing on Thursday, his victim read…