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Curated global news by Framing the Global, an initiative of @IUpress and @IU_GlobalCenter that seeks to develop new approaches to global studies.
Indiana University Bloomington
Joined April 2013
RT @AJEnglish: At least 10 people killed and dozens wounded as ethnic violence blows hole in Kazakhstan's narrative of tolerance https://t.co/vXmAhxXRId
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RT @MiddleEastMnt: Turkey, Russia delegations meet for second round of Idlib talks https://t.co/ESuHGD19Vq
middleeastmonitor.com
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Sinn Fein is on the threshold of a potential role in Ireland's government after winning the popular vote in a weekend election, a result shattering the political landscape https://t.co/EhWxu7Etfx
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RT @globalvoices: In today's newsletter: In Kerala, millions form human chain to protest India's ‘anti-muslim’ citizenship laws https://t.co/61hW18AkVm
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RT @newhumanitarian: With Gambians glued to their smartphones watching her testimony, Toufah Jallow challenged a culture of silence on rape, accusing the country’s once most powerful man. https://t.co/NTqllkG13l
thenewhumanitarian.org
The silence around rape and sexual violence in The Gambia has been broken, with women stepping forward to provide their accounts of abuse at the hands of the country’s most powerful men.
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RT @ForeignAffairs: Autocracies are harnessing digital tools to counteract what has become the most significant threat to the typical authoritarian regime today: the physical, human force of antigovernment protests. https://t.co/9YnNIXI3S3
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RT @euronews: Euronews space correspondent @Astro_Luca has returned to earth, along with record-breaker Christina Koch and cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov. https://t.co/p96y7YubJg
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.@ShivaniRanchod worked w/ providers & patients in #SouthAfrica to figure out what should be measured for true VBC, not using data items that already exist. Doctor: When I do this… this is good care. But what does 'good' mean for the patient? & how do we turn this into data?
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BBC News - Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums
bbc.com
The government says it wants to promote "wellbeing and gender equality".
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RT @MiddleEastEye: Done deal: How the peace process sold out the Palestinians https://t.co/kZLW0bnQCO
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CW: Suicide . . . . Another apparent suicide by hanging in ICE detention yesterday—the third one in four months. Federal inspectors warned in 2018 that bedsheet nooses were becoming common in ICE detention center cells. https://t.co/gXsfSexyCo
nytimes.com
Federal inspectors found bedsheets fashioned into nooses in cells at a center in Adelanto, Calif., where several detainees have attempted suicide.
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RT @MiddleEastEye: Following the US assassination of top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy head of Iraq’s Hashd al-Shaabi paramilitary, Iraq’s parliament voted to expel US forces from their country https://t.co/EUeSpKMxXC
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Netanyahu indicted on corruption charges as US prepares to unveil new Mideast peace plan
abc.net.au
The corruption charges, which come hours before the release of Donald Trump's long-delayed Israel-Palestinian peace plan, are the first criminal indictment against a serving Israeli Prime Minister.
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Facing the threat of rapidly-spreading #CoronaVirus, China has temporarily banned the sale of wildlife. This could bode well for many highly-trafficked and #endangeredspecies. Conservationists call for it to be made permanent, says @mongabay
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https://t.co/eSwPlF8T7V "Health authorities around the world are grappling with an outbreak of a new coronavirus, which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan. At least 81 people have died in China and almost 3,000 have been infected worldwide."
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https://t.co/SgRjkRVwsr "...he could frustrate efforts by President Emmanuel Macron to claim the mayor’s office, one of the biggest prizes in French politics, by splitting the vote and handing the mayoralty to someone else."
france24.com
Cedric Villani, out campaigning to be the next mayor of Paris, was dressed in his trademark three-piece suit with pocket watch and spider brooch under his overcoat.
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https://t.co/HA1NliiKDX "Modi’s India has indeed succeeded in mobilising the majority culture of the country towards a Hindu Rashtra, or a Hindu-centric ethnic state to the detriment of the multicultural and secular India originally enshrined in the country's 1947 constitution."
globalvoices.org
India is often called the world's largest democracy, a title it can certainly claim in terms of voters, as 900 million people are eligible to cast ballots. But a closer...
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RT @Independent: Chuka Umunna: Leaving the EU won’t do a thing to plug the UK’s devastating generational gap
independent.co.uk
Rebuilding these bonds requires a new way of working and thinking, not just lumps of money. As Brexit day fast approaches, the prime minister would do well to think ahead
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