Italian President Sergio Mattarella addresses a press conference in Rome on May 31, 2018. Alberto Lingria/ Press Asociation. All rights reserved. Mamma Mia, here we go again. Having taken the controversial step of nominating an unelected administrator – Carlo Cottarelli to run the country, Italy's President has sparked outrage from the populists who claim he's overridden …
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On Monday, December 3, the body of former President George H.W. Bush was taken from a funeral home in Houston, Texas on a final trip to Washington, D.C. Accompanying the body was Bush’s service dog, Sully H.W. Bush. While Bush’s body was in Houston, the golden lab dutifully laid next to the casket, keeping watch over his …
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This story is a runner-up in our 2019 Great American Fiction Contest. See all of the winners. Jefferson, Texas, on a sticky spring afternoon, my husband’s up to no good. I wait for disaster to rain down like tiny frogs clinging to branches after a tornado. My husband, Jace, a heavy man, dons a faded …
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Spanish-language cartoon Tiranía (Tyranny). Superstition sits on the throne, advised by a priest and a devil by Claudio Linati, 1826. Wikicommons. Public domain. Xnet (https://xnet-x.net/en/), an activist group working for civil rights in the Internet, is the founder member in Spain of the #SaveYourInternet coalition, which has among its participants groups such as the Electronic …
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The mood in the streets of Mexico’s capital was palpable. On July 2, the historic Zocalo square at the city’s center was filled with thousands of people to hear a victory speech by the new Presidential-elect Andres Manuel López Obrador. For his supporters, disbelief was coupled with relief. Joy was followed by celebration as the …
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The first time he was caught, it was by his mother. Anne heard the sounds of bare footfall on the kitchen tiles late that evening and dressed herself in the hallway outside her bedroom, careful not to wake her husband. In the kitchen she found the screen door cracked open, a pair of jeans clumped …
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Anh-Susann Pham Thi. Twitter. Fair use. Vietnamese scholars, activists and lawyers are increasingly charged with “subversion” or conducting “anti-state propaganda” or “aiming to overthrow the state” under the provisions of the Articles 79 and 88 of the penal code. In 2015, the Vietnamese National Assembly revised its penal code which now includes a penalty of …
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Image: Max Pixel. Dialogo Chino, All Rights Reserved. For years, Arnaldo Carneiro stuck to his master plan to contain deforestation in Brazil. Carneiro’s studies demonstrated the complicity of importers of Brazilian soybeans in the degradation of the environment. He implored them to purchase only from farmers who could guarantee they did not clear land for …
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Kathy Griffin knows what it feels like to be the target of outrage. In May 2017, she posed for a photo holding a fake, bloody head of Donald Trump, which resulted in massive backlash and the cancellation of her comedy tour. Now, she’s slowly making her way back to the spotlight after an appearance on …
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Sceenshot: Citizens Assembly of Ireland, YouTube. April, 2017. Brexit has morphed into a messy divorce that has exposed not only deep political divides but competing visions of Britain and what they should look like. Whatever the political outcome, the referendum has laid bare a fractured country, where the problems are deeper than the issues of …
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