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By 3 December 2019, the number of demonstrators reporting serious eye injuries during Chile's mass protests for a more just society stood at 345. Officers of the Carabineros de Chile (Chile's (...)
Minnis: Bahamas’ financial services sector shrinking Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis acknowledged yesterday that The Bahamas’ financial services sector is shrinking due to global pressure. “The offshore financial services sector, our number two industry, has been shrinking due to a vastly different and much more stringent global regulatory environment,” Minnis said. He made his comments while opening the 2021/2022 national budget debate in the House of Assembly, making those remarks in the context of the bleak economic situation in the country due to Hurricane Dorian and the COVID-...
A narrow, ramshackle street lined with modest makeshift constructions. A tangle of electric cables hangs like a giant spider web between the houses. We are in the Burj al-Barajneh camp, in the (...)
Mohammad Israr, 17, says that he prays with a heavy heart every time he enters the deadly coal mine in the mineral-rich, south-western province of Balochistan that claimed the life of his father. (...)
Valdir Ferreira, the informal owner of a gold mining operation for the last 15 years, is unimpressed by the hydraulic shovel that methodically scours the forest floor in search of the gold hidden (...)