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31 Dec 2018

Justice for Julian Assange, Test of Western Democracy

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Nozomi Hayase This has been the 7 th  year that WikiLeaksfounder Julian Assange spent Christmas in confinement inside Ecuador’s London ...

China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Takes a Military Turn?

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Abdus Sattar Ghazali New York Times says Pakistan has eagerly turned more toward China as the chill with the United States has deepened...

Best film and television of 2018

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David Walsh & Joanne Laurier  The film world in 2018 can be viewed and judged in different ways and by distinct standards. “Globa...

UK: Cross-party moves escalate to prevent Brexit and secure second referendum

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Robert Stevens  Hostilities continued during parliamentary recess over Britain’s scheduled exit from the European Union (EU) at the end...

FCC to launch investigation of CenturyLink following US-wide 911 outage

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Jacob Crosse Beginning in the early morning Thursday, December 27 and continuing throughout Saturday evening, hundreds of thousands of ...

Facing possible liquidation, Sears to close 80 more stores in March

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Kevin Martinez Sears Holdings has announced plans to close 80 more Sears and Kmart stores across the US in March, in addition to the ne...

5,147 workers died at work in the United States in 2017

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Jessica Goldstein The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries for 2017 on December 18. T...

One year since Trump’s tax cuts: a balance sheet

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E.P. Milligan December marked one year since the passage of Trump’s corporate tax windfall legislation, cutting the corporate tax rate ...

Amid widespread violence, Bangladesh’s ruling party re-elected

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Vimal Perera The national election was held yesterday in Bangladesh amid widespread violence mainly instigated by the ruling Awami Leag...

Opioid overdose deaths triple among US teens and young children

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Kate Randall  Opioid overdose death rates among US teens and children have tripled over the past 17 years, a new study shows. The  stud...