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Sexual Assault Rate Climbs during Nigeria Covid-19 Lockdowns—and Police Are Helpless to Intervene

September 13, 2020 zenger.news Comments Off

Victims in Nigeria are often pressured by rapists’ families to drop all charges. And now the courthouses are all closed.
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Women Data Scientists Created GPS-Driven App to Help Kenya Keep Covid-19 Numbers Low

September 12, 2020 zenger.news Comments Off

Test data, GPS coordinates and contact tracing help an innovative project spot outbreaks in real time.
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Dolores Huerta: Sí, Se Puede, Together We Can Build a Better Future

September 12, 2020 zenger.news Comments Off

Americans celebrated the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which guaranteed women the right to vote.
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Drastic fall in India’s GDP Upends PM Modi’s Economic Message

September 11, 2020 zenger.news Comments Off

The country’s GDP shrunk by 23.9% in the second quarter of this year, compared with the same period in 2019.
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India Pauses Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 Vaccine Trials

September 11, 2020 zenger.news Comments Off

AstraZeneca declared a “voluntary pause of vaccination” after a volunteer test subject developed an unexplained illness.
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80-year-old Street Vendor in Taiwan Earns Spot on Highbrow Michelin List

September 10, 2020 zenger.news Comments Off

The renowned worldwide food ratings guide praised Wu Huang-yi’s steamed pork belly buns for their intriguing sweet/salty mix.
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Despite Apple’s Investment, Mobile Manufacturing Lags in India

September 10, 2020 zenger.news Comments Off

The government points to Apple’s production in India, but critics claim there is little to cheer about.
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India’s Pharma Sector Faces Roadblocks in U.S.

September 10, 2020 zenger.news Comments Off

Shrinking profits in the US and increasing Chinese raw material costs threaten to disrupt Indian pharma’s strides.
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French President Macron Removes Mask to Cough, Twitterverse Wants Him Fined

September 9, 2020 zenger.news Comments Off

France has a mandatory mask policy that carries a 135 euro ($159) fine for noncompliance.
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Pokémon’s ‘MastersEX’ Hashtag Turns Bawdy in Latest Twitter Marketing Failure

September 8, 2020 zenger.news Comments Off

Singer Susan Boyle’s managers once tweeted about throwing a #susanalbumparty—which, of course was an album party and nothing more.
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Mexican Migrants’ $40 Billion Bonus Sent Home From the US

September 7, 2020 zenger.news Comments Off

Huge boost to cross border cash in 2020, says Bank of Mexico.
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College Tuition Is Rising at TWICE the Rate of Inflation—While Students Learn at Home

September 7, 2020 zenger.news Comments Off

The average cost of a bachelor’s degree in the U.S. rose by 497% between the 1985-86 and 2017-18 academic years.
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Amazon Expands while Congress Makes Postal Service Fund Retiree Benefits 75 Years in Advance

September 6, 2020 zenger.news Comments Off

Amazon is opening more delivery stations in places where the postal service once had a package-delivery monopoly.
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Cameroon Couple Cries for Help for Conjoined Twins

September 4, 2020 zenger.news Comments Off

Hundreds of Cameroonians have visited the twin girls in the hospital and their parents hope they can be separated.
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VIDEO: Making the Grade at HBCUs

September 4, 2020 zenger.news Comments Off

The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the way virtually all high-school upperclassmen are approaching the quest of applying for college. Indeed, the days of college fairs and in-school recruiter visits are at least temporarily a thing of the past, due to […]

800 Americans Stranded in Venezuela

September 4, 2020 zenger.news Comments Off

The Maduro regime offered to send Americans home — but only on the country’s sanctioned state airline.
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