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WEBThe Global Climate Justice Fellowship partners independent Sinophone journalists and journalists from Central Asia, Francophone Africa, and Latin America to assess the role of China in mitigating the global climate crisis. Protecting digital rights and freedom of expression online through research, reporting, and advocacy.
Yugoslavia wasn’t a Soviet ally—so why does that misconception …
WEBOct 26, 2019 · As part of its balancing act between the blocs, Yugoslavia was one of the founders of the Non-Aligned Movement in 1961. Unlike East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Bulgaria, it was on the western side of the Iron Curtain, the so-called line dividing the Soviet-dominated zone from the rest of Europe.. The incorrect assertion that equates Yugoslavia with the Soviet Union has popped ...
Meet the Filipino Scientist Who Invented the Videophone in 1954
WEBOn March 30, 2016, the Philippine National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) posted on Facebook a photo from 1954 of Filipino engineer Gregorio Y. Zara demonstrating his latest invention: a two-way television telephone, or videophone, patented as a “photo phone signal separator network.”. The post quickly became popular especially ...
Once more, Jamaicans debate whether states of emergency are an ...
WEBNov 20, 2021 · The murder rate in some communities in Jamaica has increased between 16 and 57 per cent in 2021, with the country recording 1,240 murders so far this year.
Powhatan Language Revitalization · Rising Voices
WEBPowhatan Language Revitalization. In the 2005 movie “ The New World,” which depicted the 17th century founding of the Jamestown Settlement in the U.S. state of Virginia, the filmmakers ran into a problem finding speakers of the Native American language spoken from that era. Turned out that the Powhatan or Virginia Algonquian language had ...
How Morocco’s Atlas Lions made history at the 2022 World Cup
WEBDec 27, 2022 · The Atlas Lions made history at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. The Morocco national football team was not only the first team from an African country to qualify for the FIFA World Cup semi-finals, they were also the only team from an Arab country. On December 10, 2022, they will forever remain etched in the …
The Sitakunda fire tragedy and the surge of humanitarian acts in ...
WEBJun 14, 2022 · Bangladesh is becoming a manufacturing powerhouse in South Asia, and the number of industrial fire incidents is also rising as industries cannot keep up with the growing requirements of safety and prevention.. A deadly fire broke out at a private container depot in Sitakunda Upazila of Chittagong district on the night of June 4, 2022. Firefighters were called and, while the first responders ...
Belizean Independence reminds me of the complicated legacy of ...
WEBSep 21, 2020 · Guatemala’s claim prolonged the nation’s ability to seek independence until the early 1980s. In 1992, Guatemala finally recognized Belize as a sovereign state, although recent developments have led both Belize and Guatemala to take their cases to the International Court of Justice in 2019. British colonization in Belize, like many places ...
International money transfer routes are evaporating for Russians
WEBNov 17, 2022 · According to the reporting by Voice of America, “between April and September, Russians transferred more than $1 billion to Georgia via banks or money-transfer services.”. Even when money is legitimately acquired and needed for legitimate purposes in the EU, and moved through the correct …
The Plight of the Zambian Watchdog: Embattled Opposition News …
WEBOct 11, 2016 · Zambia Lusaka skyline. Photo by Mike Lee via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Popular investigative news site the Zambian Watchdog has allegedly been shut down by the Zambian government. Both the website and Facebook page have been inaccessible since September 21. On September 28, state agents armed with an AK47 rifles raided the Lusaka offices of web ...
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