LONDON — A huge leak of financial documents revealed by a group of about 100 media organizations on Sunday provided deep insights into some of the mechanisms used by top politicians and celebrities to escape paying taxes. Offshore funds are often used to avoid paying high taxes, and their use ... Read More »
When results are not forthcoming, it is all too easy to look for someone to blame. This is true for education too. Today, there are 264 million children and youth not going to school. Learning, even for those enrolled, is often poor. There should be no blame game; we need ... Read More »
But several hundred pages have been withheld until next year Donald Trump has ordered the release of 2,800 files relating to the assassination of John F Kennedy, but agreed to withhold hundreds of documents the US intelligence community still deems sensitive more than 50 years after the incident. The documents were published ... Read More »
GENEVA: UNICEF says the children who make up most of the nearly 600,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled violence in Myanmar are seeing a “hell on earth” in overcrowded, muddy and squalid refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh. The UN children’s agency has issued a report that documents the plight of ... Read More »
Leaders urged to break the silence around the issue as report reveals every year 1.7 billion children across rich and poor countries experience abuse The Guardian Rebecca Ratcliffe 26 September, 2017 Nearly three out of four children experience violence each year, according to a global study that warns practices such ... Read More »
The New York Times David Leonhardt July 24, 2017 Again and again over the past year, Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan have had to decide what kind of behavior they are willing to tolerate from Donald Trump. Again and again, McConnell and Ryan have bowed down to Trump. They have ... Read More »
Cholera is an infectious disease that causes severe watery diarrhea, which can lead to dehydration and even death if untreated. It is caused by eating food or drinking water contaminated with a bacterium called Vibrio cholera. Cholera was prevalent in the U.S. in the 1800s, before modern water and sewage ... Read More »
Nazik Armenakyan has spent the last decade in a desperate race against death: She has been scouring Armenia searching for survivors of the Armenian genocide. She is determined to photograph them and provide an enduring document of their experiences a century ago. Although she found 45 survivors, she has sometimes ... Read More »
When the paper published an opinion piece about the new hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners, “a rash of readers” objected, according to Liz Spayd, its public editor – who insulted with her word choice even as she backed their case. The readers were angered, she suggested, by a “distorted characterization” ... Read More »
It may not be too late for a little course correction on how we’re all consuming and evaluating — or not — information in a digital environment. But squeezing some ideological diversity into readers’ media diets is far from a silver bullet to the problem of misinformation and partisan echo ... Read More »
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