Cryptocurrencies eliminate the need for banks and other financial intermediaries in managing exchanges of currency and assets. Despite the technology being decentralized — with no government, company or person controlling it […]
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Back to news homeSyria: Are water supplies being weaponized by Turkey?
Around one million people in the Kurdish-governed region of Al-Hasakah in Syria’s northeast have again had their water supply cut off — as they have around 20 times in the past […]
Georgia election: The battleground for America’s future
The eternal flame at The King Center in Atlanta burns on, unperturbed by the raging election campaign that has held the US state of Georgia in its grip for weeks. The flame […]
Brexit: The view from the French side of the Channel
As the first ferry from the United Kingdom docked in the port of Dunkirk in northern France at noon on Wednesday, the French customs officers gathered on a set of […]
How Pakistan is trying to boost industrial hemp production
Pakistan’s government announced in September that it would allow the industrial production of hemp, a type of cannabis plant containing cannabidiol (CBD) that advocates say has numerous medicinal and relaxing properties. […]
Is Croatia going the way of Poland on reproductive rights?
Since 1991, when Yugoslavia fell apart and Croatia became an independent state, conservative elements in the country have been trying to overturn the liberal abortion law introduced in the communist […]