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Friday, 29 September 2017 11:12
Brazil decades behind on inequality
Oxfam research shows that Brazilians earning the minimum wage would have to work for nineteen years to make as much as a rich person in Brazil’s top 0.1% makes in one month. At the current pace…
Friday, 22 September 2017 10:27
Mexico: earthquake disaster
Rescue workers, backed by an army of untrained volunteers, are still searching for survivors buried under mounds of rubble in Mexico City. The death toll from the magnitude 7 earthquake, on 19 September, has reached 237…
Friday, 22 September 2017 10:24
Mexico: earthquake safeguards
19 September was the 32nd anniversary of a hiuge earthquake in Mexico which resulted in thousands of deaths and many large buildings destroyed. This week’s quake demolished old buildings and less solidly-constructed new buildings. The cure…
Friday, 22 September 2017 10:16
Caribbean: Hurricane Maria
Dominica’s prime minister said, ‘We have lost all that money can buy’ after Hurricane Maria made landfall there on 19 September. Two days later rescue teams were struggling to reach the first victims stranded without power,…
Friday, 22 September 2017 10:11
Bankrupt Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico has been in a painful recession since 2006; previous governments dug it deeper into debt by borrowing to pay operating expenses, year after year. For the last two years, officials have been seeking assistance…
Friday, 22 September 2017 10:08
USA: Warriors for Christ, schoolroom sex video
Rich Penkoski, a conservative Christian parent in West Virginia, voiced concern after Jackie Coffin, a middle school teacher, showed her class of 13-year-olds a suicide-prevention music video that featured hip hop music, two male high school…