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August 30, 2019

Rats, Sewage and Humming Economies

NEED TO KNOW CHILE [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/3d56051e-ec6e-4ba2-992e-95cf1329a7fa.png"] Rats, Sewage and Humming Economies Free marketers have long championed the economic success of Chile. The South American country’s neo-liberal reforms in the 1980s and 1990s – cutting public benefits, lowering taxes – arguably set the stage for a renaissance that helped reduce poverty...

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August 29, 2019

Protecting the Innocents

NEED TO KNOW PAKISTAN [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/b5669185-ec28-4ec3-8bca-4f051edcc978.png"] Protecting the Innocents Sakina Bibi innocently believed her marriage was an excuse to dress up and wear jewelry. She was only 13 years old. But her husband insisted that she prove her fertility. A month later, she was pregnant and suffering. “I had severe...

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August 28, 2019

‘Chernobyl on Ice’

NEED TO KNOW RUSSIA [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/590fa22c-cb98-46d1-92e0-b6539b2a1173.png"] ‘Chernobyl on Ice’ Chernobyl has been a real tourist draw lately. “The Ukrainian government is promoting the Exclusion Zone as a tourist destination,” wrote a Boston Globe correspondent, referring to the area evacuated permanently after the 1986 nuclear disaster. “I had to go.” Visitors...

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August 27, 2019

Accounting

NEED TO KNOW SUDAN [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/7ff13e19-e031-4ed8-b29a-3f9f5eaaae60.png"] Accounting The signing of a peace deal between the Sudanese government and protesters in August was arguably the most positive international development of the year. In April, as anti-government protests grew over complaints of corruption and economic stagnation, Sudan’s military ousted former dictator Omar...

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August 26, 2019

Possibilities

NEED TO KNOW ITALY [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/d1f5e652-8ba9-4650-8185-37353156716c.png"] Possibilities The 134 migrants were at the “breaking point” as their rescue ship, dubbed the Open Arms, remained anchored off the coast of Italy’s southernmost island for six days earlier this month. Many had been on the Spanish charity-operated ship for 19 days...

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August 23, 2019

Gimme Shelter

NEED TO KNOW IRELAND [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/837de6c4-b5ea-4e00-b61f-328197110d67.png"] Gimme Shelter An Irish university student became famous after he tweeted a photo of a long, winding queue of people waiting to view an apartment that cost around $1,100 a month but reportedly was moldy. The student, Tom Redmond, called out Irish Housing Minister...

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August 22, 2019

Buckle Up

NEED TO KNOW KYRGYZSTAN [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/1588c620-ee29-4832-8238-ceffca718aa1.png"] Buckle Up In early August, when security forces descended on the home of Almazbek Atambayev to detain him for questioning in a corruption case, the former president of Kyrgyzstan grabbed his rifle. Atambayev, 62, viewed the investigation as an unfair political attack, the New...

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August 21, 2019

Gasping For Air

NEED TO KNOW AMAZON BASIN [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/ef81c211-c0fb-4e21-a904-be4d939e55c6.png"] Gasping For Air Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been under fire for his stewardship of the precious Amazon Basin, the so-called “lungs of the Earth” that filter carbon out of the atmosphere and sustain a remarkably diverse ecology. Deforestation has soared under the conservative...

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August 20, 2019

Moving On

NEED TO KNOW LAOS [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/5da738b9-27e1-4074-b49b-c2dd13c9a423.png"] Moving On Laos is straggling into the 21st century. But it has demons from the distant and not-so-distant past that it continues to grapple with. For example, deformities, disabilities and other medical ailments afflict many children born along the country’s eastern border with Vietnam....

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August 19, 2019

A History of Taking

Good morning, today is Monday August 19th, 2019, and this is your “World In 2 Minutes” from DailyChatter. NEED TO KNOW SOUTH AFRICA [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/e87ee4a1-acc3-47d4-ab24-99620c359db4.png"] A History of Taking Demonstrators sporting socialist slogans took to the streets of South Africa last month. “Yes to land expropriation without compensation!” read one...

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August 16, 2019

Unforgiving Machinery

NEED TO KNOW JAPAN [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/b51a2c6c-6c79-4bdd-a5f7-9da486138719.png"] Unforgiving Machinery A trade war is threatening the peace and prosperity of Asia. This time, however, neither China nor US President Donald Trump is to blame. Instead, the commercial contretemps is pitting Japan against South Korea. The dispute started over South Korean demands related to Japan’s...

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August 15, 2019

A Poor and Hungry Battlefield

NEED TO KNOW NIGER [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/dac255cb-f90a-4448-a883-d3ac2d9b7103.png"] On the Edge In 2017, jihadist militants ambushed a unit of American special forces in Niger. The Pentagon recently issued a report blaming junior officers for the incident that resulted in the deaths of four soldiers, the New York Times wrote. Since then, however,...

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August 14, 2019

Reason and Faith

NEED TO KNOW UNITED KINGDOM [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/8c238c0e-e370-4880-bc53-0ac24ba71887.png"] Reason and Faith Pizzamaker Domino’s has been stockpiling tomato sauce, frozen chicken, pineapple and tuna in the UK in the run-up to Britain’s scheduled departure from the European Union on Oct. 31. The chain is afraid of running out of its most popular pizza...

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August 13, 2019

Bombs and Potholes

NEED TO KNOW IRAQ [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/33937638-6eed-4550-afae-cdf6ed1357a6.png"] Bombs and Potholes Sangar Khaleel was a Mosul resident who became a fixer – a journalistic term referring to an assistant or interpreter – for reporters covering the Iraqi government’s fight against Islamic State. Two years after the militants’ defeat, the northern Iraqi...

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August 12, 2019

Playing With Fire

Good morning, today is Monday August 12th, 2019, and this is your "World In 2 Minutes" from DailyChatter. NEED TO KNOW KASHMIR [map url=https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/d5affbce-8a64-44ee-adf0-ac550cca9f1f.png] Playing With Fire Conflicts over Kashmir have sparked multiple wars and ongoing skirmishes between India and Pakistan in the 20th century. Many now fear another is...

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August 09, 2019

Umbrellas and Eggs

NEED TO KNOW HONG KONG [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/69ea348d-c659-4ccf-8c5e-70099ea87e2c.png"] Umbrellas and Eggs Protesters shut down Hong Kong’s commuter rail system in late July. They blocked trains from leaving the city or blocked doors to keep trains in their stations. Some commuters sympathized with the civil action. "I think my work and meeting...

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August 08, 2019

Passing the Buck

NEED TO KNOW GUATEMALA [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/a3903b60-311e-4a0e-bf52-eb48d15b410d.png"] Passing the Buck Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales, whose term ends in January, is leaving behind a crisis for his successor. Demonstrators in recent days have taken to the streets to protest an agreement Morales reached with US President Donald Trump on July 26. The...

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August 07, 2019

Waiting for Godot

NEED TO KNOW NIGERIA [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/78f1d673-5d4f-4e76-98ae-7d0350e258ac.png"] Waiting for Godot Armed men on motorbikes attacked a funeral procession in northeastern Nigeria recently, killing at least 65 people. Dozens are still missing. The attack, blamed on the Islamic militant group Boko Haram, was thought to be a reprisal in a tit-for-tat conflict...

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August 06, 2019

Strange Brews

NEED TO KNOW RUSSIA [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/590fa22c-cb98-46d1-92e0-b6539b2a1173.png"] Strange Brews Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny recently came down with a bizarre sickness. His face and eyes were swollen. A rash covered much of his upper body. It appeared as though he was suffering a serious allergic reaction. But he and his doctors...

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August 05, 2019

Being Heard

NEED TO KNOW PUERTO RICO [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/063757a9-3e72-4898-9223-e49792c70004.png"] Being Heard Puerto Rico was recently described as the world’s oldest colony. Now it’s the latest place where the people are fed up with their leaders. Recently, Puerto Ricans were banging pots and pans – a type of protest called a “cacerolazo,” after the...

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