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Society Weird

Ricotta, Grenades, Hippos: The Weird Stuff Fugitive Mobsters And Dictators Stash In Their Hideouts

Whether they’re Mafia bosses or strongmen on the run, there’s a long history of discovering unusual items in the secret lairs and bunkers of the world’s Most Wanted bad guys.

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Economy

More Bans On Foreigners Buying Real Estate — But Will That Fix The Housing Crisis?

Canada has become the most recent country to impose restrictions on non-residents buying real estate, arguing that wealthy investors from other countries are pricing out would-be local homeowners. But is singling out foreigners the best way to face a troubled housing market?

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Economy Green

Gabon Says It’s Time For Rich Polluters To Pay Up

The country’s “Green Gabon” sustainable development policy has proven a success. The question now is: How can Gabon reap the financial rewards of its preservation efforts?

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Eyes on the U.S. Geopolitics In The News

World Rolls Eyes At “Nonno” Biden’s Reelection Run

After Joe Biden announced he’s running for a second term as U.S. president this week, newspapers around the world began to brace for a rematch of two rather old men.

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Eyes on the U.S. Geopolitics

Eyes On U.S. — Democrats, Republicans And Canadians In Standoff Over Migrant Buses

Republicans and Democrats have been engaged in political ping-pong over migration, bussing migrants from red to blue states. Now the issue has reached Canada as the migrants are pushed ever further north.

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In The News

Where Conversion Therapy Is Banned, And Where Its Practices Are Ever More Extreme

After almost five years of promises, the UK government says it will again introduce legislation to ban conversion therapy — and in a policy shift, the proposed law would include therapies designed for transgender people.

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In The News

After Dutch Apology For Slavery, Why Is Belgium Balking On Its Colonial History?

On the same day that Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte officially apologized for the Netherlands’ involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, in neighboring Belgium, a parliamentary committee was unable to garner enough political support to apologize for decades of brutal colonization in central Africa.

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In The News Russia-Ukraine War

Putin In Belarus: Is Lukashenko Ready To Enter The Ukraine War?

Five days after Minsk’s troops began amassing at the Belarus-Ukraine border, Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived for an impromptu summit with Alexander Lukashenko. Belarus’ strongman is increasingly seen as no longer having the option to say No to entering Putin’s war against Ukraine.

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