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Germany plans to suspend family reunification – DW – 05/16/2025

  
dw.com - 05.18.2025 Original article ›
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Germany ends subsidiary family reunification for 343,000 in Germany. Dobrindt, Germany's Interior Minister says-

"The country's ability to integrate had simply reached a breaking point, cities and municipalities across the country were at their limit."

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SCO: Chinese defence minister in India to attend Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meet

  
BBC News - 04.27.2023 Original article ›
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China's defense minister Li Shangfu visits New Delhi as India assumes the chair role for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. India says normal ties with China can only take place when the border disputes are resolved. India's modernization program to 2030 is based on growing its economy and investing heavily in infrastructure and advanced technologies to transform the country. For this to happen India needs to increase exports to over $2 trillion, and reduce imports from China to increase domestic manufacturing.

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Chile Elects Right-Wing Council to Draft New Constitution

  
WSJ - 05.08.2023 Original article ›
Ryan Dubé
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Chile's Constitutional Council that swung in one direction now swings in the other direction. The new Constitutional Council has elected 33 conservatives and 17 from the left parties as the mood swings to keep some aspects of the old constitution that helped the economy grow. There is concern about the effects of crime, immigration and the slow growth of the economy under the Boric government. The economy is expected to contract by 1% in 2023 according to the IMF.

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Turkey Election Maps: Why Erdogan Is Headed For a Runoff

  
NYTimes.com - 05.16.2023 Original article ›
Lauren Leatherby
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A map of Turkey shows where Kilicdaroglu of the Republican party of Ataturk did well in red or light red and Erdogan light yellow or yellow. One can see that the large cities and coastal regions show opposition strength, the central provinces Erdogan's strength, and the south east where minorities live who support the opposition alliance. Rural areas largely support Erdogan, cities such as Ankara and Istanbul have mayors from the Republican party and support Kilicdaroglu. Izmir also supports him.

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India's e-mobility revolution – DW – 12/20/2022

  
dw.com - 12.23.2022 Original article ›
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Swarnalatha Reddi is a part of a young generation of Indian women engineers joining industry. Click on Original Article to see this video of how Chennai is becoming the world wide hub for electric vehicle technology and manufacturing. Shown here are Swarnalatha as a new e-mobility engineer from a neighboring state who moved to Chennai's Mahindra R&D division. Senior managers at Mahindra and BMW say that the local government is paying particular attention to needs of manufacturing in Chennai.

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Finland: Chronic labor shortage could decide election – DW – 04/01/2023

  
dw.com - 04.02.2023 Original article ›
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Finland faces a severe shortage of workers with about 60% of positions unfilled in the larger Helsinki area. About 100,000 new tech positions will have to be filled. In other lower wage sectors there is the problem of low wages as there is no minimum wage in Finland with sector by sector negotiation for wages. Far right parties are opposed to immigration. Ukrainian workers have to learn Finnish or English to integrate into the Finnish workplace. Elections will be decided on this issue in 2023.

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Opinion | Why Dutch Farmers Turned Their Flag Upside Down

  
NYTimes.com - 04.03.2023 Original article ›
Ben Coates
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Dutch farmers protest a plan by the government to cut nitrogen emissions in line with EU laws by half by 2030, by cutting dairy farms by a third. Recently the Dutch Citizens Movement, a farmer protest party called BBB, won provincial elections. The government is now looking at how to meet protester demands and lower the goals away from dairy farming. The agricultural sector is large in Netherlands and it's agricultural exports are next to only the US, says NYT.

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Coronavirus latest: Wuhan lockdown lifted, Lufthansa shutters Germanwings | DW | 07.04.2020

  
DW.COM - 04.07.2020 Original article ›
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European Union president Ursula van der Leyen says Africa could be facing a massive surge in coronavirus in a couple of weeks similar to what is happening in Europe. She said only a globally coordinated response would win the war against the coronavirus. "It is in our interests to ensure that the fight is successful worldwide." To help African economies and health systems the European Union will provide aid and grants of 15 billion euros or about 16.3 billion dollars. 

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How Parliament can stop Boris Johnson’s no-deal Brexit

  
The Economist - 08.30.2019 Original article ›
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The Economist magazine says parliament in Britain should act to pass a motion of no- confidence for the Boris Johnson government. It says Mr.Johnson's action stifling parliamentary democracy by suspending parliament in the weeks before the Brexit date of October 31st is reason for the opposition and Tory rebels to set aside their differences. Without this Mr. Johnson could take Britain out of the European Union without any deal. This would damage the economy, leaving Britons poorer, and create unrest in Northern Ireland.

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Apple’s plan to scan images will allow governments into smartphones | John Naughton

  
The Guardian - 10.16.2021 Original article ›
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Apple's effort to use CSS, client side scanning to check images on smartphones for child abuse and other crime. This technology scans images on a smartphone and compares it with a database of child abuse material (CSAM) and notifies Apple if a match is found. This serves as an effort to make technology compatible with social needs of today after the balance had swung too far in the opposite direction allowing damage to civil society, to women, and to children.

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Watch: India's 1st commercial flight by JRD Tata re-enacted by Tata group

  
Hindustan Times - 10.17.2021 Original article ›
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India's first commercial flight by JRD took place in 1932. On October 15, 1932 JRD Tata flew India's first commercial flight that carried mail on a single engine De Havilland Puss Moth aircraft from Karachi to Bombay. Aarohi Pandit re-enacts this flight for the Tata Group in this video in the Hindustan Times. JRD  did this first flight when he was 28 years old. He made the same flight a third time when he was 78 years.

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Lobbying - What other scandals have there been in British politics?

  
The Guardian - 04.14.2021 Original article ›
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Lobbying is a major problem in the US and was an issue in the last two presidential election campaigns. This is a problem in Britain as shown in the Greenhill scandal with a former prime minister. During the pandemic there is public dissatisfaction with the conduct of politicians violating the trust placed by the people. Recent reports of lobbying in Germany involved the giving of contracts for health supplies and PPE leading to new rules set by the CDU party for its members. 

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Taiwan: The threat that the world ignores | DW | 18.09.2020

  
DW.COM - 09.18.2020 Original article ›
Richard Walker
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This article in German news service DW.com looks at Taiwan and the threat it faces from China. It looks at different scenarios that might erode Taiwan's status as an independent country. Taiwan's foreign minister Joseph Wu sees the internal situation in China as affecting China's approach to Taiwan. He says China "may find Taiwan a convenient scapegoat" because of the internal situation with floods in China, the economy affected by coronavirus, and other problems.

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Why Ruth Bader Ginsburg Refused to Step Down

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NYTimes.com - 09.22.2020 Original article ›
Emily Bazelon
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Supreme Court Justice could simply have retired and let then president Obama appoint her successor. She decided to stay into her eighties. As a result president Trump will choose a conservative as her successor and has the votes lined up in the Senate. In Britain the retirement age was changed from lifetime to 75 by an Act in 1959. In India the Constitution set the retirement age for the Supreme Court at 65. Only in the U.S. is this practice maintained.

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Covid-19 Live Updates: U.S. Nears Record, With More Than 75,000 Virus Cases

  
NYTimes.com - 10.23.2020 Original article ›
Elaine Yu, Mitch Smith
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Daily cases of coronavirus reach a high of 75,000 with increases in the upper midwestern states of Wisconsin, Illinois,  in Kentucky, Tennessee in the south, and in western states. Most of the increase is in the rural areas of the country in the second wave. In the first wave the high density urban areas such as New York and Los Angeles were worst hit with the rural areas not being hit. This time Chicago is in the worst hit midwestern areas.

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Virtual cinema festival to screen films from Cannes, Venice

  
France 24 - 04.27.2020 Original article ›
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Mark your calendar for May 29 when You Tube will host screenings  of the virtual film festival from multiple locations- Cannes France, Venice Italy, Berlin Germany, Toronto Canada, and New York. This is the "We Are One- Global Film Festival," with virtual cinema program for 10 days with feature films, documentaries, shorts and round tables. Films can can inspire and bring people in different countries together in a useful virtual format combining many of the best film festivals worldwide.

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Strewth! Australian scientists smash internet speed record

  
The Times - 05.25.2020 Original article ›
Bernard Lagan, Sydney
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A new internet speed record of 44 terabits per second has been set by a team from three Australian Universities. This is a million times faster than the 44 Mbps average speed in Australia. The average speed is 133 Mbps in U.S. and 67 Mbps in UK.The team used a micro-comb, a small optical chip that replaces 80 separate infrared lasers. It used normal cable technology to do the test, so that it has potential for use on current broadband networks.

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China Borrows at Negative Rates for the First Time

  
WSJ - 11.19.2020 Original article ›
Frances Yoon, Anna Hirtenstein
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China raises $3.7 billion in a 3 part deal in euros by issuing bonds worth 4 billion euros, for 5, 10, and 15 year bonds. Yields were a negative 0.152% for 5 year bonds and 0.32% and 0.66% for the 10 and 15 year bonds. This is the first time China has sold negative yielding bonds. Moody's projections show China public sector debt is at 185-190% of gross domestic product in 2020, up from 167% in 2019.  

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China’s Xi Ramps Up Control of Private Sector. ‘We Have No Choice but to Follow the Party.’

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WSJ - 12.10.2020 Original article ›
Lingling Wei
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China's effort under president Xi to expand the state run sector by providing more credit to state run enterprises and expecting private companies to pursue goals of the state's planned economy. Tackling the coronavirus economic impact required state planning and that experience has further renewed the effort to build the state run companies as a reliable partner for the government. There is also a conviction that private companies are unreliable in a large and complex economy as China's.

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Padma Shri at 105, meet the Coimbatore grandma who is giving a leg up to organic farming

  
The Hindu - 02.04.2021 Original article ›
Akila Kannadasan
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A 105 year old woman farmer in Tamilnadu state (formerly Madras) works on her 2.5 acre farm growing bananas. These days she has taken to organic farming with zeal. She was awarded Padma Shri India's national award for her work increasing popularity of organic farming. She comes from a village near the city of Coimbatore. She has worked closely with Tamilnadu Agricultural University and travels to many farmer meetings. Students from the University visit her farm as part of the Village Stay Program.

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In Guatemala, Harris Tells Undocumented to Stay Away From U.S. Border

  
NYTimes.com - 06.08.2021 Original article ›
Zolan Kanno Youngs
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US vice president Kamala Harris sends a message to Guatemalan migrants in her visit to Guatemala City, telling them not to come to the US. Biden administration policy is not to have migrants from Guatemala come to the US border with Mexico for economic reasons. Europe and the US have learned from past experience that economic migration is an endless process- that the only way to tackle this is to help improve conditions in neighboring countries of Central America and North Africa.

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Opinion: Saxony-Anhalt election result is a clear victory for Armin Laschet | DW | 07.06.2021

  
DW.COM - 06.07.2021 Original article ›
Rosalia Romaniec
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The CDU gets 36% of the vote in the state of Saxony-Anhalt in east Germany. The FDP gets 7%. This was a result that surprised the CDU as the AfD party was polling well before the election, The result gives the ruling CDU party hope of doing better in east Germany where it had lost votes to the right wing AfD party. This was a crucial election ahead of German elections for a new government to replace Merkel. The Greens are polling well nationally.

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High Hopes for Johnson & Johnson’s Covid Vaccine Have Fizzled in the U.S.

  
NYTimes.com - 06.18.2021 Original article ›
Noah Weiland
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When regulators told J&J that tens of millions of doses at a Baltimore plant had to be discarded for contamination, the initial enthusiasm for a one dose vaccine began to fade. Production problems and the pause in the vaccine J&J as problems are sorted out, is making the J&J vaccine less effective in this crisis. Only 11.4 million doses have been adminstered of J&J vaccine says the NYT, making its role less significant.

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Arunachal Pradesh officials trek 9 hours to vaccinate 16 grazers

  
The Hindu - 07.13.2021 Original article ›
Rahul Karmakar
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The remarkable story of coronavirus vaccine given at 14,000 feet in the Himalayas of Arunachal Pradesh in India. A team trekked for 9 hours to reach a village in Tawang district so that 16 yak grazers could be given the vaccine. These grazers were away from home grazing their yaks and had missed an earlier vaccination camp. The village is aerially 30 miles from the Tibet border. The trek took them through dense forests, swampy stretches, and the Luguthang river, crossing two mountain peaks.

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Teenage star Bianca Andreescu stuns Serena Williams in US Open final

  
- 09.08.2019 Original article ›
Nick Pitt
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Eighteen year old Bianca Andreescu of Canada wins the U.S. Open 6-3, 7-5 defeating 37 year old veteran Serena Williams as she attempted a comeback. The intelligent game with a whole range of shots and use of creative game mixing up the shots was a feature of Andrescu's style that made it fun to watch the game. Martina Navritolova says Andrescu's style is so creative that its great to have a new player like her in the game.

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