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RAMZY BAROUD sees Gaza abandoned while the genocide continues
Cuba leads the way in the fight against Ebola
ANDREW MURRAY offers some troubling thoughts on pressing political issues
Tensions have once again escalated between Egypt and Ethiopia over GERD, Africa’s largest hydroelectric project, and now Trump has offered to mediate. NICHOLAS MWANGI reports
The National Education Union general secretary speaks to Ben Chacko on growing calls to protect children from a toxic online culture
While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE
Unison Scotland’s BRENDA AITCHISON says her union won’t tolerate further cuts to public services
FORMER UN secretary general Kofi Annan’s “bitter disappointment” with the tardiness of the developed world in responding to the current Ebola epidemic will strike a chord with millions.
Who could deny that “if the crisis had hit some other region it probably would have been handled very differently?”
Irresponsible actions in the US private health system aside, Annan is surely correct that “the international community really woke up when the disease got to America and Europe.”
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