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Need to Know

November 10, 2022

Remaking the Wall

China

Chinese Communist Party Congresses are usually scripted affairs that befit totalitarian states. Delegates are expected to reach decisions that leaders have already prescribed. Surprises are discouraged. So the bizarre episode where a functionary escorted the 79-year-old former president of China, Hu Jintao, out of the 20th Congress...

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The World Briefly

November 10, 2022

Daring to Hope

Russia

Russia and the US agreed this week to hold talks on the single existing nuclear treaty between the two countries, even as the war in Ukraine continues and Moscow has threatened to deploy tactical warheads, CNN reported. The talks will center on the New START treaty,...

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The World Briefly

November 10, 2022

The White List

Spain

The Spanish government presented a bill this week that aims to increase transparency in interactions involving public officials and lobbyists, including creating a register of interest groups, the Associated Press reported. The proposed law would require officials involved in any policymaking to report their meetings with...

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The World Briefly

November 10, 2022

Racing a Virus

Uganda

Uganda ordered the shuttering of all schools two weeks before the end of term as the country races to contain the latest Ebola outbreak, Al Jazeera reported. Officials said the government will close preschools, primary and secondary schools on Nov. 25, saying that the densely packed...

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Discoveries

November 10, 2022

The Red Crosses’ Splinters

Between 1346 CE and 1353 CE, the bubonic plague known as The Black Death killed as many as 200 million people across Western Eurasia and North Africa. Now, scientists have found after studying the genes of victims and survivors that the plague has impacted humans today,...

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