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The government will put an emphasis on goals like community and cultural connection and equity in well-being across generations in what has been described as a “game-changing event” by LSE professor Richard Layard

The sanctions imposed by the U.S. on Venezuela is killing people in the country and risking lives of millions by depriving them of basic necessities.

Planting millions more trees is definitely something all countries should consider to mitigate some of the deforestation damage already done. But it's also critical to save the forests we already have.

Argentina's Macri will face a full work stoppage Wednesday as citizens say 'no' to the recession brought on by the president.

Archeologists are warning that the newly proposed airport to transport visitors to the tourist site may actually cause significant harm to the historical ruins.

As Ethiopia seeks to become the continent's leading manufacturing hub, it has sold investors on workers' willingness to toil for less than half the salary of tailors in Bangladesh, said the report by New York University's Stern Center

On May 15 students and university professors will hold a strike against the alterations to education and culture, which are suffering from what critics say is ideological warfare from Bolsonaro who openly celebrates the country's prior military dictatorship, has continually made transphobic and homophobic comments, and has called for an end to studies in philosophy and politics.

The journalists were released at the prison to representatives of Reuters and to Lord Ara Darzi, a British surgeon, and health care expert who has served as a member of an advisory group to Myanmar’s government on reforms in Rakhine State.

Some two million Palestinians live in Gaza, whose economy has suffered years of blockades as well as recent foreign aid cuts. Unemployment stands at 52 percent, according to the World Bank, and poverty is rampant.

In January – 2 civilians, 17 militants and 8 security forces personnel were killed, In February – 5 civilians, 22 militants and 60 security forces personnel were killed and in March – 14 civilians, 19 militants and 15 security forces personnel lost their lives.

The protest came as a moment of Black women’s unity in the face of Islamophobic misogynoir, with speakers such as Representative Ayanna Pressley contextualizing the attacks on Omar as part of a long-standing pattern of silencing of Black women’s voices.

The Sri Lankan government informed it enlisted the support of Muslim religious leaders before deciding in favor of the blanket ban, as the clerics asked women to follow this resolution as backlash against the Muslim minority, which constitutes 9.7 percent is a likely threat.