Monthly Archives: September 2022

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SAN SALVADOR, Sep 07 (IPS) – A year after Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele decided to make El Salvador the first country where bitcoin is legal tender, the experiment has so far failed, as few of the original plan’s objectives have been achieved. Read the full story, “Bukele’s Failed Bitcoin Experiment in El Salvador”, on globalissues.org […]

GENEVA, Sep 07 (IPS) – Afghanistan is where history has taken it! The Trump-Taliban “Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan,” signed on 29 February 2020, is deemed by many as the submission of a superpower to a group that had perpetrated acts of extreme ferocity and terror. Read the full story, “Afghanistan: The Year of […]

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As fighting continues in South Sudan, a new UN report released on Tuesday documents 173 civilian deaths over a four-month period along with widespread human rights violations committed without repercussion. Read the full story, “South Sudan: Human rights violations in Unity state committed with ‘impunity’”, on globalissues.org → find more fun & mates at SoShow […]

Briefing the Security Council on Tuesday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres again underlined the need to de-escalate the situation around the embattled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine.  Read the full story, “Ukraine: Guterres calls for ‘safety’ and ‘security’ of Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant”, on globalissues.org → find more fun & mates at SoShow now !

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BRIGHTON, UK, Sep 06 (IPS) – The UK’s new Prime Minister (and former Foreign Secretary), Liz Truss, enters Downing Street with a full and urgent in-tray, dominated by the highest inflation rate for 40 years and concerns across the country about the cost-of-living crisis. Read the full story, “Eight International Development Priorities for the new […]

HAMILTON, Canada, Sep 06 (IPS) – Monsoon flooding has occurred often in Pakistan but never to the catastrophic extent presently happening. A distinguishing feature of this disaster is that no one blames the flooding’s unprecedented intensity and destructiveness on anything but climate heating. The clear link between the warming atmosphere and the frequency and duration […]

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