Things Can Only Get Better for Bangladesh

Things Can Only Get Better for Bangladesh

Opinion by Saifullah Syed (rome) Friday, August 23, 2024 Inter Press Service ROME, Aug 23 (IPS) – The student movement in Bangladesh demanding reform of the quota system for public jobs was the straw that broke the camel’s back. The Awami League (AL) government led by Sheikh Hasina, in power continuously since 2008, collapsed on 5th…

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Venezuela Struggles to Hold on to Hope

Venezuela Struggles to Hold on to Hope

Opinion by Ines M Pousadela (montevideo, uruguay) Monday, August 19, 2024 Inter Press Service MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Aug 19 (IPS) – There was an unusual sense of hope going into Venezuela’s 28 July presidential election. Democracy seemed on the horizon. María Corina Machado, the opposition’s rallying figure, had inspired a rare level of enthusiasm, promising millions of…

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Things Can Only Get Better for Bangladesh

Origins of the Gaza Catastrophe – Part 1

Opinion by Jan Lundius (stockholm, sweden) Friday, August 16, 2024 Inter Press Service STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Aug 16 (IPS) – During the first half of the 20th century, antisemitism was endemic in Europe and eventually burst out in full force when Nazi-Germany and its collaborators between 1941 and 1945 systematically (and well-documented) murdered six million Jews across…

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