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Extreme Poverty Set to Vanish by 2028?
“Statisticians are kind of bewildered by this,” but…”extreme poverty” — that is, the number of people around the world living on less than $1.25 a day, counting inflation — is “on a trend...
Lebanese Fears Confirmed as Bomb Shakes Beirut
As many Lebanese had predicted, the unrest in Syria has spilled into Lebanon’s borders. Around 3pm local time, a bomb went off in Beirut. Once described as the “Paris of the Middle East,” Beirut has now been reduced to an...
Vaccine Politics : The Return Of A Global Threat
It was not long ago that a crippled man became the most powerful person on the planet. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the longest-serving President of the United States, a man who helped take the country out of an economic depre...
COP20 Fossil Of The Day: And the Swiss take the cake
Fossil of the day: Switzerland’s fear of commitment, Brazil’s struggle to count and AOSIS shines bright with ambition. Switzerland took out first place in the daily Fossil of the Day awards today, with a spin around a Lima ...
Crisis Time In South Sudan
A Young Nation South Sudan became an independent nation in 2011. The new-found independence brought with it the hope of a fresh beginning. At least hope in the sense that things would get better and not worse. Yet hope, for a...
Youth and Environmental Volunteerism
It is clear that the world now faces multiple environmental challenges that if not addressed wholly and timely, will explode to a state of irreversibility. Some people may even argue that it has already reached a point of no re...
