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The Week In Stories Around The Globe
Flash shot: A Sunday for Cuba’s Patron Saint Like every September 8, it was the day of Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre, the Patron Saint of Cuba, a date celebrated not only by Catholic devotees but also by numerous Cubans of different creeds and spiritualities, and even quite a few of those who declare…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
“This Must End”: Israel Orders New Mass Evacuation, Continuing Attacks on Gaza Health System “We have an obligation as healthcare workers, as public health advocates, to state very clearly … our demands not only for an immediate and sustained ceasefire, but an end to the Israeli occupation.” #GazaGenocide #War #Violence #MiddleEast Jubilation and stunned silence:…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Tunisian black women: ‘My skin colour says I don’t belong’ In 2018, Tunisia passed a landmark law to criminalise racial discrimination, in particular anti-black racism against black Tunisians and black African migrants. It became the first country in the Arab region to make discrimination specifically on racial grounds a criminal offence. #Tunisia #Racism #BlackLivesMatter #Africa…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
The legendary life of Brazilian soccer icon Pele in photos A three-time World Cup winner who scored 1,281 goals in 1,363 games, Pele is known as the “king of soccer,” the world’s most beautiful game. “The difficult, the extraordinary, is not scoring a thousand goals like Pelé. It is creating a goal like Pelé,” wrote…
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Did the world make progress on climate change? Here’s what was decided at global talks “We call for reduced CO2 emissions,” said Zambia’s environment minister Collins Nzovu after the meeting ended. “That’s a basic issue. Right now, as it is, we will not reach 1.5 [degrees Celsius]. We are off the map completely.” #COP27 #ClimateChange…
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It’s a Girl (Fascist)! It’s tempting to say that her position as a woman leader should be considered irrelevant, given her and her party’s vile anti-immigrant, nationalist, racist, anti-LGBTQ+ politics. But ignoring her womanhood misses some crucial points about her political ideology. Being a woman — a white woman, that is — is not in…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
‘Locals f–king hate you. Leave’: Mexicans say American residents are a ‘plague’ Americans can come here, and they can afford everything and live like kings and queens,” Dan Defossey, a business owner in Mexico City told the LA Times. “Mexico is not cheap for Mexicans.” #Mexico #UnitedStates #gentrification #economics Tunisia’s president handed unchecked power with new constitution Adel,…
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In worsening gang fighting in Haiti, 20 dead, thousands displaced Criminal violence in Haiti intensified this week, with fighting among rival gangs in part of the capital killing at least 20 people, among them children, and leading to thousands having to flee their homes. #Haiti #Gangs #Violence Heatwave in India breaks records, still worsening The average temperature…
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A Look Inside the UN’s New 3,600-Page Climate Report In 2004, public relations firm Ogilvy and Mather had an idea. By shifting the blame for carbon emissions away from giant fossil-fuel corporations and onto the shoulders of individuals, it could help its client, BP, escape blame for the environmental destruction it was wreaking. The result…
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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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