The Hong Kong government has postponed its upcoming elections for a year, citing the growing outbreak of coronavirus in the territory but raising immediate accusations that the pandemic was being used as a pretext to suppress democracy. City leader Carrie Lam announced Friday that she had invoked the colonial era. …
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Tsitsi Dangarembga, the award-winning Zimbabwean novelist who was nominated for the long list of Booker Awards earlier this week, was arrested during anti-corruption protests in Harare. Dangarembga, whose novel This Mournable Body was long-listed for the UK’s first fiction prize alongside Hilary Mantel and Anne Tyler, documented her arrest in …
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has stood firm against mounting pressure to avoid massive budget cuts by raising taxes on the many billionaires living in his state. As that campaign to tax billionaires received a recent boost from Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the legislative leaders of the Democratic state of …
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A portrait of Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old black emergency medical technician shot dead by police in her own home earlier this year, will appear on the cover of O’s latest issue, The Oprah Magazine. It is the first time in the magazine’s 20-year history that the cover will not feature …
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