Giorno: 1 Novembre 2022

Hunan Wildfires Destroy At Least 2 Towns, 2 Dead

Read More Tens of thousands of local residents gather and march in a memorial for two firefighters killed in the wildfire in Xintian County, Hunan Province, on Oct. 25, 2022. The wildfire broke out on Oct. 17, lasted for more than seven days, and engulfed half of the county, but the news was censored to […]

If Lula did it, uBaba can do it too

Read More Tuesday. A two-day losing battle with technology or not, the sense of elation at Sunday’s results is still there, that internal giggle, that feeling that, for the moment, all is right in the universe. A 5-0 for Arsenal will do that. So will a 1-0 for humanity, decency, the people of Brazil — […]

There are many reasons for the increasing number of traditional healers

Read More “Why are there so many traditional healers? It seems to be fashionable,” many people are asking on social media platforms. On the face of it this appears to be a plausible concern. I contend it brings to light the extent to which colonial beliefs are still deeply entrenched in our social structures.  The […]

Drug abuse ‘out of hand’ in South Africa, needs radical policy shift

Read More This week the Global State of Harm Reduction report by Harm Reduction International cited South Africa as having become one of the world’s largest methamphetamine markets. (Photo by Thomas Banneyer/picture alliance via Getty Images) To get a handle on South Africa’s burgeoning drug problem, policymakers need to adopt a decriminalisation and harm reduction […]

Son of Wuhan COVID-19 Victim Insists on Holding CCP Accountable, Is Threatened by Police

Read More Zhang Hai, a Wuhan native living in Shenzhen who has been trying to hold the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities accountable for his father’s death during the initial COVID-19 outbreak, was recently threatened by CCP police. Zhang told The Epoch Times on Oct. 29, “The police came to my home after 10 p.m. […]

Rishi Sunak preparing years of tax rises to plug ?50bn fiscal black hole

Read More Rishi Sunak is preparing years of tax rises for Britain in an effort to make up for a ?50bn fiscal hole left by Liz Truss’s disastrous tenure in Downing Street, according to a Treasury insider. After a meeting between the prime minister and Jeremy Hunt on Monday to plan the upcoming autumn statement, […]

Jenrick refuses to criticise Braverman over ‘invasion’ comment

Read More The UK immigration minister, Robert Jenrick, said he would “choose his words very carefully” when asked if he would defend Suella Braverman calling migrant boats “an invasion”, but refused to criticise the home secretary. Jenrick also said the government was not the root cause of deteriorating conditions at a controversy-hit centre for asylum […]

Brazil’s Lula win over Bolsonaro celebrated by the left globally, but beware a right backlash

Read More On election day in Brazil on Saturday Lula da Silva, a former factory worker, was carried aloft by trade unionists and members of the MST (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra), the giant movement of the landless. Jair Bolsonaro, a former military officer, cut a very different figure as his wife Michelle went […]

Is there Rain in Telkom’s future?

Read More The Telkom-Rain deal is still on the table but analysts are divided on whether it will be successful. (Photo: Gallo Images/Lefty Shivambu) With the collapse of the MTN-Telkom deal the question of whether there will be any other corporate merger for Telkom remains. Rain is left as the only prospect for the fixed-line […]

Netanyahu plots return as Israelis vote for new government

JERUSALEM – Tuesday could be a big day for former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. As Israelis returned to the polls for a fifth time in less than four years, the former Israeli leader is growing increasingly hopeful that a whirlwind election campaign and more than a year in opposition will be enough to propel […]