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Saturday Night Live Season 50 debuted last night and launched with a bang. Unsurprisingly, the first episode of the landmark season kicked off with a political sketch that lampooned the [...]

In This Issue / Best of the blogs US retreats from social activism https://fee.org Corporate America is finally retreating from its self-appointed position at the vanguard of social activism, said [...]

It has been a tumultuous few months for the International Monetary Fund's borrowers. In June protests brought thousands onto the streets in Kenya after William Ruto, the president, laid out [...]

A decade after becoming the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner in history, Malala Yousafzai is beginning her career as a film producer with the documentary “The Last of the Sea [...]

Political and economic outlook Tanzania is East Africa's second-largest economy. Services contribute the largest share, more than 40%, of real GDP. Trade and tourism will drive services growth in EIU's [...]

Political and economic outlook Mauritius is one of Africa's most stable democracies, with strong respect for political institutions. The economy relies on tourism for earnings and imports of food and [...]

Political and economic outlook Kenya's economy is Sub-Saharan Africa's fourth largest and one of its most diverse, with a vibrant services sector. The spread of broadband internet and e-commerce-and a [...]

Inflation has fallen quickly this year, with the 12-month rate easing to 43.6% in July (compared with a sky-high 398.2% in the same month of 2023), reflecting a more modest [...]

Antigovernment protesters storm the Prime Minister’s palace in Dhaka on Aug. 5 Sheikh Hasina Wazed was proud of her house. When the Bangladeshi Prime Minister welcomed TIME to her Ganabhaban [...]

By Scott Roxborough and Gianmaria Tammaro Illustration by Lincoln Agnew Rome Is BurningStudents participate in an antifascist protest against Giorgia Meloni on June 20 in Rome. On May 26, 2023, [...]

CAIRO – 21 August 2024: Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty conveyed his hope for a sincere political commitment from Israel to end the war in Gaza during the upcoming negotiations [...]

Byline: Lachlan McKirdy Australian women's cricket captain Alyssa Healy has stated she would feel uncomfortable if the T20 World Cup later this year proceeded in Bangladesh as planned. Political turmoil [...]

(https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F294e952a-383e-4c14-a676-976f6403b566_929x651.png) A poorly lit Pierre Poilievre addresses supporters, none of them AI-generated, in Kirkland Lake. (Screengrab/CTV News) Gazillions of people all around the world tuned in to watch the Summer [...]

Byline: Just Earth News Labourers recently demonstrated in Chaman to protest against Pakistani government's decision to make possession of passport mandatory for crossing the Pakistan-Afghan border. The labourers had called [...]

Byline: Ayesha Arvind Justice G Jayachandran quashed the FIR registered against the AIADMK MP after noting that the police had invoked incorrect provisions of the IPC. The Madras High Court [...]

Byline: Elie Honig It's become a recurring scene at the political rallies of Vice-President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. Harris refers to the ongoing criminal cases against her electoral [...]

As exits GO, it was dramatic. On August 5th Sheikh Hasina, the prime minister of Bangladesh, fled the country she has ruled with an increasingly harsh grip since 2009. She [...]

Byline: Masum Billah Bangladesh’s prime minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country on 5 August after resigning on cascading political demonstrations against an earlier crackdown on protesters that were upset about [...]

Thailand's constitutional court made a predictably draconian move on August 7th. It dissolved the https://www.economist.com/asia/2024/06/20/the-army-backed-establishment-in-thailand-goes-after-its-enemies , a pro-democracy group which won a plurality of seats in last year's election. The [...]

'IN TAMWORTH, the Holiday Inn has been used for asylum purposes for years,' said Sarah Edwards, the Labour MP for the West Midlands constituency. 'The simple reality is that residents [...]

Byline: Just Earth News Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Tuesday made way for the formation of the interim government after officially dissolving the Parliament, a day after ex-Prime Minister Sheikh [...]

THEY BROKE through the hotel doors soon after midday on August 4th. Around 700 far-right activists had gathered outside the Holiday Inn Express in Manvers, a suburb in the deprived [...]

For a man who supposedly won an election, Venezuela's president, https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2024/08/01/after-protests-over-a-stolen-election-the-goons-crack-heads , looks worried. The gaudy tracksuit he sported during much of the campaign has been swapped for a solemn [...]

Byline: Moneylife Digital Team Bangladesh prime minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina has resigned and left the country amid massive protests against her government that has killed more than 106 people since [...]

Byline: Just Earth News At least 32 children were killed and many more injured and detained during student protests that erupted in Bangladesh in July, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) [...]

IN THIS ISSUE / This week’s big news Bangladesh officials turn internet back on On 28 July, the government in Bangladesh restored internet services on mobile phones after they had [...]

Byline: Steve Schuster, sschuster@wislawjournal.com Newly obtained body cam footage obtained from the Ft. Worth Police Department by WISN-TV, reveals the Pro-Hamas group CODEPINK lied. Fort Worth officers were among the [...]

Robert Jenrick MP, the former Communities Secretary, has this afternoon kicked off his bid for the Conservative leadership with a rally in his Newark constituency. The rally is the first [...]

In This Issue / Politics & economics Maduro clings to power Venezuela’s president is defying rebellious voters. Matthew Partridge reports Nicolás Maduro’s regime “vowed to crush a burgeoning protest movement [...]

Protecting the polls: Volatile election season likely to push security risks higher With political tensions in the U.S. already high, the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, revelations about [...]

The next front for conservative religious activism is likely to be the fight over euthanasia, and the model for such activism may be seen in Spain's growing network of religious [...]

ONLY ONE reason prevails for why Nicolás Maduro ever became Venezuela's president. It was not his skill at winning elections. Nor his willingness to steal them. It was certainly not [...]

What happened Dozens of far-right protesters, flanked by conservative members of the Israeli Knesset, breached the perimeter of Israel's Sde Teiman detention center on Monday. Military police worked to detain [...]

What happened Thousands of protesters took to the streets across Venezuela yesterday after (https://theweek.com/politics/venezuela-election-first-vote-in-a-decade) Nicols Maduro claimed victory in an election that opposition figures say was marred by fraud. Who [...]

Byline: Rajeev Deshpande Bangladeshi students have served the prime minister a warning she cannot ignore A RELATIVE CALM PREVAILS in Bangladesh since the Supreme Court pared down a 30 per [...]

IN THIS ISSUE What happens at political rallies? At political rallies, large numbers of people gather to show their support for a particular politician or election candidate, who will usually [...]

Byline: Steve Schuster, sschuster@wislawjournal.com J.D. Vance accepted the GOP nomination as vice-presidential candidate Wednesday in Milwaukee. As previously reported, on the first official day of the Republican National Convention former [...]

Byline: Steve Schuster, sschuster@wislawjournal.com [embed]https://youtu.be/UXgWlUF1m1Q?si=fZVCbf4GYiZ1PzTv[/embed] Warning: Video above contains explicit language. Out-of-state police played the role of peacemakers throughout the second day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on [...]

Less than 48 hours after an assassination attempt, Trump touches down in Milwaukee to an anxious, energized base. MILWAUKEE'Delegates at the 2024 GOP convention were already gearing up this week [...]

This week's Republican convention will give the GOP a chance to unite around former President Trump. For over a century, political parties https://www.history.com/news/political-conventions-change their presidential nominees at their conventions. That [...]

Byline: S Prasannarajan THE BAD WORD of the new politics--new but its instincts are as old as a nation's affinities--is 'elite'. It's the anger against a malignant minority that powers [...]

Byline: Maritime Gateway A two day hunger strike is being planned by port and dock workers of all the major ports on July 25 and 26, as a protest against [...]

Byline: Maria Goncalves A man who was filmed sexually harassing female workers in a BBC expose has been elected to the board of a Kenyan tea factory supplying major UK [...]

By Douglas Brinkley Grant Park gatherings: anti-war protesters, 1968 (ANTI-WAR PROTESTS: PICTORIAL PARADE.) AS THE DEMOCRATIC National Convention barrels down on Chicago this August, it’s not lost on historians that [...]

The mushrooming of anti-Semitic violence and activism on campuses across the United States is not an organic or spontaneous development. Money is flowing from the Arab world to universities, nongovernmental [...]

Belarus's next presidential election is scheduled for 2025. The election will be neither free nor fair. Mr Lukashenka has confirmed that he plans to run for re-election, which he will [...]