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  • EU Trade chief criticizes China

    EU Trade chief criticizes China

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    Cecilia Malmstrom has voiced frustration over China’s trade policies ahead of a summit this week as Brussels struggles to get Beijing to deliver on commitments to open up its market to European investments.The European Commissioner for Trade (sometimes referred to as the EU Trade Commissioner) is…

  • Trump’s second veto?

    Trump’s second veto?

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    The House voted Thursday to end U.S. participation in Yemen’s civil war, denouncing the Saudi-led bombing campaign there as worsening an already dire humanitarian crisis and sending the measure to President Trump for his expected veto. The Yemeni Civil War is an ongoing conflict that began in…

  • Healthcare sector failing in Venezuela

    Healthcare sector failing in Venezuela

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    Venezuela’s health system is in “utter collapse,” according to a report, including the exponential spread of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles and diphtheria and “dramatic surges” in infectious diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis. A socioeconomic and political crisis that…

  • FAO paints bleak food security picture

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    The FAO’s recent report on global hunger, shows disproportionate food insecurity in Africa. Most acute hunger is caused by conflict, economic and climate related disruptions.

  • ADB warns of slow growth in Asia

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    Growth in developing Asia could slow for a second straight year in 2019 and lose further momentum in 2020, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said, warning of rising economic risks from a bitter Sino-U.S.trade war and a potentially disorderly Brexit. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is a regional development bank established ….

  • Myanmar enforces controversial land law

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    Myanmar’s government has actively been enforcing a land law that evicts, fines and imprisons farmers, in a move that is seen by human rights activists as a reversal of promises by Aung Sun Suu Kyi’s government. The Republic of the Union of Myanmar, also known as Burma, is a Southeast Asian nation….

  • China to regulate opioids

    China to regulate opioids

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    China said it will tighten regulation of fentanyl-related substances as a gesture to the United States, where the synthetic opioid has caused tens of thousands of overdose deaths every year and fuelled a public health crisis.

  • Trouble grows for Trudeau

    Trouble grows for Trudeau

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    Canada’s former attorney general made public a conversation that she secretly recorded with Canada’s top civil servant, which she took as a veiled threat that she would lose her job if she didn’t intervene to avoid criminal prosecution of a Canadian company. Justin Trudeau s a Canadian politician serving as the..

  • Migrants hijack oil tanker

    Migrants hijack oil tanker

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    A Turkish oil tanker was hijacked by migrants amidst rising anti-immigrant, nationalist sentiments in Europe. The European migrant crisis is a part of a pattern of increased immigration to Europe, including asylum seekers and economic migrants. Most migrants make a treacherous journey across the Mediterranean Sea or use the…

  • UK’s political nightmare

    UK’s political nightmare

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    On the day Britain was supposed to extract itself from the European Union, Prime Minister Theresa May suffered a third crushing defeat on her exit plan, effectively setting the Brexit process back to the beginning almost three years after Britons voted to leave. On June 23rd, 2016, Britain narrowly voted to leave the…