Getting out of prison is often assumed to be cause for celebration and a new beginning. However, many women exiting prison face profound disadvantage, isolation, poor mental and physical health and struggle finding housing. Further…
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© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com — One week — that’s all it took for gold’s $2,000 highs to melt. In Monday’s session, an ounce of the yellow metal on New York’s Comex was back…
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America’s electric power system is undergoing radical change as it transitions from fossil fuels to renewable energy. While the first decade of the 2000s saw huge growth in natural gas generation, and the 2010s were…
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Officials pondered the trade-offs between wholesale and retail central bank digital currencies (CBDC) in a panel during the International Monetary Fund Spring meetings. Overall, the participants welcomed the major progress in digital financial infrastructures over…
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Russia may have used chemical weapons in its invasion of Ukraine, according to unconfirmed reports from the besieged city of Mariupol last week. The reports have been taken seriously, with official investigations announced and the…
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2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A tap and meter shows zero level pressure on Druzhba oil pipeline at Hungarian oil and gas group MOL’s main Duna (Danube) refinery in Szazhalombatta January 9, 2007. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh…
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It’s been a tough few years for people who own or manage a business. Lockdowns shut down whole industrial sectors worldwide, turning profitable businesses into loss-making ones, while a lot of smaller businesses went under.…
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© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com — There’s information and then there’s disinformation. This past week, governments to markets were trying to figure out how much information – and disinformation – there is to China’s…
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Channel 4 first flashed onto British TV screens under the watch of a Conservative government led by Margaret Thatcher. Forty years later, in a move described by critics as “cultural vandalism”, the current Conservative government…
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There has been widespread discussion of Russia’s threat to use tactical nuclear weapons in its war on Ukraine. Russia is estimated to have thousands of tactical nuclear weapons – possibly the world’s largest stockpile –…
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