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28 Nov 2022

Germany: More than one-third of all students at acute risk of poverty

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Ela Maartens The already dramatic social plight of German students is growing worse. According to the latest figures from the German Federal...

Germany’s coalition government adopts a budget for war and austerity

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Johannes Stern The 2023 budget passed in the German parliament on Friday is a declaration of war on working people. At its centre is a massi...

Malaysian election presages deeper political crisis

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Peter Symonds Malaysia’s general election held on November 19 and the subsequent swearing-in of Anwar Ibrahim as the new prime minister last...

The protests in China and the lifting of Zero-COVID

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Evan Blake Over the weekend, protests took place in several Chinese cities, with most centered among students on university campuses. Based ...
26 Nov 2022

Turkey continues bombing Kurdish forces in Syria, threatens ground invasion

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Ulaş Ateşçi After bombing Kurdish nationalist militias in northern Syria and Iraq last weekend, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has s...

China tallies three consecutive days of record COVID-19 infections

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Benjamin Mateus On Thursday, Friday and Saturday, China’s National Health Commission (NHC) reported three consecutive record numbers of COVI...

The German government’s Citizen’s Income: Hartz IV poverty gets a new name

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Carola Kleinert Germany’s new “Citizen’s Income”—according to Federal Labour Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD), the “biggest social reform in 20 ...