Tag: global
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Amid global adoption reckoning, adoptees fight long-standing narrative they should be ‘grateful’
Cosette Eisenhauer-Epp, a Chinese transracial adoptee with white parents, said she remembers a salient moment after the March 2022 Atlanta-area spa shootings. “The people he shot look like me, but he’s the same ethnicity as my parents, so where do I go from that?” said Eisenhauer-Epp, a 23-year-old master’s student at the University of Texas…
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Half of all global food threatened by growing water crisis, report says
“The global water crisis is a tragedy but is also an opportunity to transform the economics of water — and to start by valuing water properly so as to recognize its scarcity,” said Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General of the World Trade Organization and one of the commission’s co-chairs in a statement. With nearly three billion…
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Nobel economics prize goes to global inequality researchers
Three U.S.-based academics won the 2024 Nobel economics prize on Monday for their research into why global inequality persists, especially in countries dogged by corruption and dictatorship. Simon Johnson and James Robinson, both British-American, and Turkish-American Daron Acemoglu were commended for their work on “how institutions are formed and affect prosperity,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences…
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Ratan Tata, who put India’s Tata Group on the global map, dies at 86
Ratan Tata, the former Tata Group chairman who put a staid and sprawling Indian conglomerate on the global stage with a string of high-profile acquisitions, has died, the Tata Group said in a statement late on Wednesday. He was 86 and ran the conglomerate for more than 20 years as chairman. “It is with a…
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China cannot represent Taiwan and should work with Taipei on global challenges, Lai says
TAIPEI — China has no right to represent Taiwan, but the island is willing to work with Beijing to combat global challenges such as climate change, Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Thursday, striking both a firm and a conciliatory tone. Lai, who took office in May after being elected in January, is detested by…
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How a tiny town hit by Helene could upend the global semiconductor chip industry
Virtually all of the world’s supply of a mineral that is critical to semiconductor production comes from one tiny town in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that has been devastated by Hurricane Helene. Spruce Pine, North Carolina has no running water or electricity, more than a week after Helene ripped through the town of 2,200. Roads…
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U.S. port strike could have huge impact on global supply chain
A massive dockworker strike at seaports on the U.S. East and Gulf coasts is expected to wreak havoc on global supply chains and the economy, with American consumers likely to notice shortages of popular products if the work stoppage lasts for a long time. Workers at ports stretching from Maine to Texas went on strike early Tuesday…
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Dikembe Mutombo, Basketball Hall of Famer and NBA global ambassador, dies at 58
Hall of Fame center Dikembe Mutombo, one of basketball’s most feared shot blockers, died following a battle with brain cancer, the NBA announced on Monday. Mutombo was 58. He rejected 3,289 shots, the second most in NBA history, during his long career that included stops in Denver, Atlanta, Philadelphia, New Jersey, New York and Houston.…
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Who made the exploding pagers? The messy global trail behind Lebanon blasts
HONG KONG — An electronics manufacturer in Taiwan said Wednesday that a company based in Hungary made the pagers bearing its brand that were used by members of the militant group Hezbollah and exploded simultaneously across Lebanon on Tuesday. At least 12 people were killed and more than 2,750 others were injured in the blasts,…
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Fed interest rate cut expected and global trail behind Hezbollah pager explosions: Morning Rundown
A long-awaited interest rate cut is expected today. The mystery behind the origins of the exploding Hezbollah pagers deepens. And Sean “Diddy” Combs’ team will argue again for his release as he awaits a sex trafficking trial. Here’s what to know today. Fed expected to cut key interest rate Chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve…