11/28/2023 - DailyChatter

Diplomats worked overtime into Tuesday morning to extend the ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas by 48 hours beyond the four-day deadline to Thursday morning , the BBC reported. Both sides said that they wanted to prolong the peace and continue exchanging...

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The World Briefly

November 28, 2023

Same Patterns, Different Names

Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone reduced its 24-hour curfew to a night-time lockdown Monday, a day after gunmen attacked a number of military barracks and prisons, prompting concerns of a potential coup in the West African nation, the BBC reported. On Sunday, unknown gunmen tried to break into the...

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The World Briefly

November 28, 2023

A Risky Opportunity

United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is planning to use its position as the country of the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) to negotiate oil and gas deals, according to a series of leaked documents that have cast a pall on the international talks...

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The World Briefly

November 28, 2023

Not Making History

New Zealand

New Zealand’s new government will scrap world-leading legislation to ban smoking for future generations in order to fund tax cuts, a reversal that prompted criticism from health officials and concerns about the well-being of the country’s Indigenous Māori, the Guardian reported Monday. Last year, then-Prime Minister...

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Discoveries

November 28, 2023

A Group Effort

A new study suggested there is some truth in the proverb, “it takes a village to raise a child,” Euronews reported. Anthropologist Nikhil Chaudhary and his team recently studied how modern-day hunter-gatherer societies fare in childcare responsibilities and compared them with contemporary parenting in Western countries. They...

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The World Briefly

Same Patterns, Different Names

Sierra Leone

The World Briefly

A Risky Opportunity

United Arab Emirates

The World Briefly

Not Making History

New Zealand

Discoveries

A Group Effort