Month: July 2019
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Freedom, money, babies: Indian women rescued from slavery count their losses
India identified more than 135,000 bonded workers in its 2011 census despite banning the practice in 1976
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Want to add trillions to the global economy? Back female founders
Increasing support for female entrepreneurs could boost the global economy by trillions of dollars
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Mass decapitations as at least 52 killed in Brazil prison riot
At least 52 inmates died, with 16 decapitated, in a prison riot on Monday in the northern Brazilian state of…
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Gustavo Quintana: A doctor between life and death
Quintana's struggle, beyond euthanasia, refers to the privacy of each person, in order to decide how to die without being…
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Maduro says fugitive ex-leaders of FARC are ‘welcome’ in Venezuela
Security sources and the Government of Colombia argue that Márquez and Santrich hide in Venezuela
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Paraguay will ask Brazil to leave without effect a controversial act on binational hydroelectric
The Government said that the decision, which regularizes the conditions for contracting energy, was taken in diplomatic instances
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20 million children miss out on life-saving vaccines, U.N. warns
In a report on global immunization coverage, the U.N. agencies found that vaccination levels are stagnating, notably in poor countries…
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Haiti officials say PM Lapin has resigned, new PM selected
Haitian newspaper Le Nouvelliste first reported on Monday that Lapin had offered his resignation to President Jovenel Moïse
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Governments are looking for settlements in opioid crisis suits
"If we don't use dollars recovered from these opioid lawsuits to end the opioid epidemic, shame on us," Kentucky Attorney…
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Financial therapy: What it is and who needs it?
Money is about more than numbers: emotions are often at play too
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