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Tight carbon credit market adds to fuel price woes in Brazil

Reuters 2022-03-31

photo: ABr / Gabriel Jabur

SAO PAULO, March 30 (Reuters) - As the war in Ukraine pushes up fuel prices in Brazil, President Jair Bolsonaro has blasted profit margins at the state-run oil company, tinkered with fuel taxes and entertained new subsidies. But one factor driving fuel prices appears to have flown below his radar:...

Pakistan's Imran Khan is fighting for his political life

BBC News 2022-03-31

photo: AP / Anjum Naveed

Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan is facing arguably the biggest challenge of his political career, as the opposition seeks to remove him from office in a vote of no confidence. The country's lawmakers will convene on Thursday to begin debating the motion as Mr Khan's future...

California reparations decision sparks debate over who should qualify

The Guardian 2022-03-30

photo: Creative Commons / Hakan Dahlstrom

The state’s taskforce voted 5-4 on Tuesday to base compensation plans on lineage rather than race California’s reparations taskforce has recommended compensating the descendants of enslaved and free Black people who were in the US in the 19th century, bringing the state one step closer to becoming...

Turkiye’s Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque to hold 1st tarawih prayer in 88 years

Anadolu Agency 2022-03-30

photo: Creative Commons / Arild Vågen

Turkiye’s Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque in Istanbul will hold its first tarawih prayer in 88 years, a special evening prayer during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. A number of events for Ramadan...

Afghans are also victims of the Ukraine war

The New Arab 2022-03-30

photo: Creative Commons / Marius ArnesenSuivre

Living in Afghanistan, I feel lifted seeing the response to the suffering in Ukraine. The over $1.5 billion pledged is the fastest that money has ever been raised in response to a conflict. It is right for world leaders to go to such historic efforts to support those impacted by the crisis in...

CPJ condemns ‘unjustified’ block on journalist Rana Ayyub leaving India

CPJ 2022-03-30

photo: Creative Commons / Satdeep Gill

New Delhi, March 30, 2022 – Indian authorities should immediately reverse their decision to block journalist Rana Ayyub from traveling outside India, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday. On Tuesday, immigration officials at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in the western...

Condé Nast, BuzzFeed, and the ever-growing media labor movement

Columbia Journalism Review 2022-03-30

photo: Creative Commons / Romanist~dewiki

Yesterday, staffers at Condé Nast announced that they are forming a company-wide union with the NewsGuild of New York, covering more than five hundred staffers across a dozen titles. Staffers at The New Yorker, Wired, Pitchfork, and Ars Technica are not covered as they are unionized already; bosses...

How to handle Will Smith’s slap is just one of many crises facing academy after Oscars

The Los Angeles Times 2022-03-30

photo: Creative Commons / TechCrunch

If it’s true — as Denzel Washington told Will Smith moments after Smith strode onstage at the 94th Oscars and slapped Chris Rock across the face — that the devil comes for you at your highest moment, then motion picture academy officials must be wondering what Satan does when you’ve hit rock bottom....

Central Asia on the fence about Russia’s war

Asiatimes 2022-03-30

photo: AP

Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine has awakened Russia’s neighboring Central Asian states to possible dangers lurking to the north. They’re yet unsure how to react. The five countries in the region are uncertain in part because they have tight economic ties and also because Russia provides an armored...

9 big questions about Russia’s war in Ukraine, answered

Vox 2022-03-30

photo: AP / Efrem Lukatsky

A woman walks outside a maternity hospital that was damaged by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 9, 2022. | Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Addressing some of the most pressing questions of the whole war, from how it started to how it might end. The Russian war in Ukraine has proven itself to be one of the...

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