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Hurricane Melissa Poised To Slam Caribbean; 1.6 million Children At Risk

With Hurricane Melissa threatening to unleash torrential rains and hurricane-force winds across the Caribbean, at least 1.6 million children are at risk as families in Jamaica, Haiti and surrounding islands brace for flooding, landslides and widespread disruption
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Who Does PAS have to Offer As A Prime Minister?

PAS’s recently concluded Muktamar (annual congress) revealed what many in Malaysian politics already suspected: the party intends to be more than a kingmaker
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Rising Temperatures And Extreme Weather Hit Asia Hard

The WMO’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report says that 2024 was the warmest or second warmest year on record (depending on the dataset), with widespread and prolonged heatwaves
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Turkey: Sweeping Arrests, Torture, Censorship

On March 19, just days before the March 23 primaries of Turkey's main opposition party, the Republican People's Party (CHP), Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu -- the CHP's leading candidate who was thought by many possibly to win the next presidential election against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan -- was arrested on contested charges of "corruption and terrorism."
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Washington’s Unstoppable Superweapon

As geopolitical tensions escalate, the U.S. wields its most formidable weapon—not military might, but a sophisticated network of political and informational control that reshapes nations and regions to serve its interests
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Understanding Climate Migration

Representatives from countries around the world are convened in Baku, Azerbaijan, through Friday (November 22) for the United Nations Climate Change Conference
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The IMF Must End Its Destructive Surcharges

A group of 22 financially distressed countries, including Pakistan and Ukraine, has become the largest source of net revenue to the International Monetary Fund in recent years
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Pressing Issues Await Pope Francis In Indonesia

A host of pressing issues, including the rise of religious intolerance, climate change, human trafficking, violence in Christian-majority Papua, disputes over development projects, and lay-clergy conflict
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