WASHINGTONIn Minimum Wage Debate, A Battle Over Inequality and Job Loss
In the midst of a nationwide movement for policymakers to raise minimum wages for millions of workers in the United States, experts here continue to debate the advantages and drawbacks of raising the federal rate.
WHO Celebrates Major Progress in Fighting Malaria
Enhanced efforts to fight malaria have saved an estimated 3.3 million lives and nearly halved the disease’s global mortality rate since 2000, according to the latest edition of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) annual “World Malaria Report”, released Wednesday.
South Africa’s Arms Industry Most Advanced in Global South
When the white apartheid regime in South Africa kept the overwhelming majority of blacks under military repression, the country’s security forces were armed with weapons originating mostly from a highly-developed domestic armaments industry.
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