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09/12/2023
On May 4, 2023, during the International Summit on Nonviolence held in Antioquia, Colombia, a handshake shocked those who were present. The handshake was between two men with vastly different histories. One of the men was Daniel Gaviria, whose father—Guillermo Gaviria, former governor of...
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09/08/2023
In early 2023, India surpassed China as the most populous country in the world with the latter having 850,000 fewer people by the end of 2022—marking the country’s first population decline since famine struck from 1959 to 1961. While this reduction may seem...
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09/08/2023
On August 31, 2023, the President of the Communist Party of Chile Guillermo Teillier was buried in the historical cemetery of Recoleta. In this graveyard lies the remains of a range of important people, from former Chilean President Salvador Allende to the socialist singer Victor...
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09/07/2023
Headlines in This News Package: Activists Mohamed Adel and Mahmoud Hussein Jailed in Egypt Palestinian Prisoners to Launch Hunger Strike Against Increasing Israeli Restrictions ‘Imperialism Has Nothing to Offer Us, Only Threats’: Dilemmas of Humanity Conference Held in Santiago JetBlue Suspends All Flights to Cuba
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09/06/2023
The twentieth century saw the emergence of public funded universities and technical institutions, while technology development was concentrated in the R&D laboratories of large corporations. The age of the lone inventor—Edison, Siemens, Westinghouse, Graham Bell—had ended with the nineteenth century. The twentieth century was more...
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09/06/2023
“The worst-case scenario is unfolding in Ethiopia,” Gabriel Bizuneh tells me, as he organizes in the Ethiopian community in Washington, D.C. Once again, the federal government is at war with another region in a federal system where regions are demarcated on ethnic lines. Moreover, each...
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09/01/2023
On August 22, the U.S. State Department renewed its ban on the use of U.S. passports for travel to North Korea. This travel ban prohibits as many as 100,000 Korean Americans living in the United States from visiting their relatives in North Korea....
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09/01/2023
Headlines in This News Package: Australians to Vote in Referendum on Indigenous Rights
Twenty-Year-Old Faces Execution Under New Ugandan Anti-LGBTQ+ Law
Military Coup Attempts Overthrow of Gabon’s Government
India’s West Bengal State Proposes Land Grant to Tea Estate Workers
Saudi Social Media User Sentenced to Death Over Posts
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09/01/2023
Headlines in This News Package: Kenya’s Population Growth Decreases as More Women Embrace Modern Family Planning
Biodiversity Credits: Solution or Empty Promise for Latin America?
Growing Feminization of Migration in Cuba Poses New Challenges
Flooding, Water Insecurity Looms as Indian Kashmir’s Titanic Water Bodies Shrink
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08/29/2023
Headlines in This News Package: Zimbabwe’s President Secures Second Term Amid Severe Economic Crisis “Big Three” Auto Workers Vote to Strike by 97 Percent Protests Break Out in Libya Over Rumors of Normalization With Israel Haitians Reject Kenya’s Plan for Armed Intervention
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