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Venezuela calls for debt restructuring in response to Covid pandemic
April 5, 2021“We demand once again the end of the economic, financial, and commercial blockade against our people."
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WHO: Europe’s vaccination plan is ‘unacceptably slow’
April 2, 2021European nations’ immunization campaigns against COVID-19 are “unacceptably slow” and risk prolonging the pandemic, a senior World Health Organization official said Thursday.
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Young labor leader murdered by Duterte in Philippines
April 2, 2021Since 2016 when he came to power the president of the country has sanctioned the murder of at least 50 trade union leaders.
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Impoverished scavengers fight our trash problem, but they’re denied vaccines
April 1, 2021The work is dangerous, and injuries are common, so governments have an incentive to not recognize them or provide benefits like health care.
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Democracy dies under Brazil’s neo-fascist Bolsonaro
March 31, 2021Brazil is “at the threshold of what is compatible with democracy,” the communist Governor of Maranhao state Flavio Dino has warned following a string of resignations from the army leadership.
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