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Melbourne, Australia – While most Australians fire up the barbecue and crack open beers to celebrate national day on Friday, Robbie Thorpe will be marching in the shadow of Victoria’s state parliament. Like many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, he doesn’t see anything to cheer on Australia Day, which marks the arrival of the…
Luiz Inacio « Lula » da Silva, a leftist leader who rose from abject poverty to serve as Brazil’s president from 2003 to 2010, is widely tipped to win the country’s 2018 general election unless a corruption conviction against the 71-year-old is upheld and he is barred from running. Once called « the most popular politician on earth » by…
Sao Paulo, Brazil – Widely popular former president Luiz Inacio « Lula » da Silva has been banned from running in elections this year after an appeals court upheld corruption-related convictions. Opinion polls suggest the former leftist leader would win October’s general elections comfortably. He vehemently denied the corruption charges and said he is the victim of a political…
Burger King might seem like an unlikely source for a pretty darn good net neutrality explainer, but their new video is just that. In « Whopper Neutrality, » a Burger King rolls out a change in Whopper prices that gets customers pretty pissed. If they want their burgers immediately, they’ll have to pay more money; if they…
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A prominent Egyptian human rights lawyer has become the latest presidential hopeful to withdraw his campaign, leaving only current President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in the running. Khaled Ali said conditions did not allow for a fair contest in the presidential elections, which are set for the end of March. « We today announce our decision not…
Though he’s taken a few jabs at President Donald Trump, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein said Wednesday he’s otherwise « really liked what he’s done for the economy. » « I’d say I like a lot more stuff than I don’t like, and some of the stuff I don’t like I really don’t like, » Blankfein told CNBC’s « Squawk…
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Larry Nassar found competitive gymnastics to be a « perfect place » for his crimes because victims saw him as a « god » in the sport, a prosecutor said Wednesday, shortly before the former doctor was to be sentenced for years of molesting Olympic gymnasts and other young women. « It takes some kind of…
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Zimbabwe’s new leader Emmerson Mnangagwa is in the Swiss city of Davos, where he is looking to use the World Economic Forum as a platform to show the international community how he will be different from his predecessor Robert Mugabe, who had ruled the country for 37 years. All eyes will be on how Mnangagwa…
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