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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
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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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
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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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Facebook, WhatsApp outage an annoyance for U.S., but a big deal in rest of the world The unprecedented outage came as Facebook is facing a growing barrage of issues, including damaging revelations from an ex-employee who accused the company of “choosing profit over public safety.” #Facebook #facebookdown #LatinAmerica #india Malaria vaccine a ‘breakthrough for science’, WHO chief says “This…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
These Photos Show The Devastation Caused By The Haiti Earthquake The disaster was the latest crisis to hit the Caribbean island nation, which is still reeling from the assassination of its president, the coronavirus pandemic, and a wave of gang violence. Saturday’s temblor came as the country’s vaccination campaign was just getting underway. #Haiti #earthquake #carribean Afghanistan Meant Nothing I remember…