Student debt has risen dramatically in recent years, leaving many US college graduates unable to buy their first homes. BBC’s Beth McLeod looks at why analysts are concerned about how this could […]
Drug cartels show force on social media
CNN’s Nick Valencia reports on the ways in which Mexican drug cartels use social media. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVCAinnJiEo
Navajo families receive electricity for first time
Electricity is a basic necessity in most people’s lives but one that is considered a luxury on portions of the Navajo Nation. Margie Tso laundered clothes in a tub with a washboard […]
Abandoned gold mines in Siberia get new lease of life
Siberia and Russia’s Far East hold 11% of global gold reserves. But after the fall of Soviet Union many mines were abandoned. This to be changed soon as new technology that allows […]
Lord Owen Dismisses Russia Sanctions
One of the top negotiators in the Kosovo conflict, former FM David Owen, says that sanctions against Russia won’t resolve the crisis in Ukraine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a78yx8OTyZs
Mazen Maarouf is a Lebanese poet from Beirut living as a refugee in Reykjavik, Iceland
Palestinian poet Mazen Maarouf has been doubly exiled, born in Lebanon and forced to flee to Iceland, where his only security is his notebook.
‘West scared of BRICS as it has no control over it’ – Ex-Indian Foreign Secretary
Representing a fifth of the world economy, the BRICS states pose a challenge to the US-dominated world. Submarket growth in Russia and the West could also change more rapidly, shifting the whole […]
CNN reveals that NATO is wrong about Russian military build up near the Ukrainian border
Phil Black visits areas near the Ukraine border where satellite photos seem to indicate Russia troops have gathered. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGJMQrWNsJs
Shoe thrown at Hillary Clinton during Las Vegas speech
Former US Secretary of State was nearly hit by a shoe during a speech in Las Vegas Thursday, dodging the object at the last second as an usher escorted a young woman […]
Transnistria: A land in limbo
CNN’s Karl Penhaul gets a rare look inside Transnistria, a self-declared country sandwiched between Moldova and Ukraine.
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