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The Swinging Pendulum -Hate vs Progress A Historical Flashback -Women’s Suffrage: The majority of white women rejected Hillary Clinton for Donald Trump How did Hillary Clinton lose to Donald Trump? Partly due to the fact she did not win the white women’s vote. Why did Hillary Clinton lose the presidency to Donald Trump? On November […]

Parliament must vote on whether the UK can start the process of leaving the European Union BBC News Parliament must vote on whether the UK can start the process of leaving the EU, the High Court has ruled. This means the government cannot trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty – beginning formal exit negotiations […]

Japan’s population declines in 2015 for first time since 1920 Japan Times Japan’s population stood at 127,094,745 as of Oct. 1, 2015, the final results of the census showed, down 0.8 percent from the previous census five years earlier and marking the first decline since the survey began in 1920. Of the total population, including […]

United States: Disparity in college student loan debt more than triples after graduation Brookings Institution The moment they earn their bachelor’s degrees, black college graduates owe $7,400 more on average than their white peers ($23,400 versus $16,000, including non-borrowers in the averages). But over the next few years, the black-white debt gap more than triples […]

Dubai – Construction begins on world’s tallest building the Dubai Creek Harbour Reuters Dubai said on 10 October 2016 it had started building what would be the world’s tallest tower, another record for the city that is already home to the highest skyscraper – the Burj Khalifa. The Tower at Dubai Creek Harbour – a […]

‘Racist’ Gandhi statue banished from the University of Ghana campus campus Accra academics win removal of Mahatma sculpture after petition denouncing Indian leader and saying African heroes ‘come first Jason Burke The Guardian A statue of Mahatma Gandhi will be removed from a university campus in Ghana after professors launched a petition claiming the revered […]

Chinese built railway opens linking Ethiopia to Djibouti Xinhua ADDIS ABABA- African people cherish a dream that one day the capitals of all African countries will be linked by high-speed railways, Chairperson of African Union Commission Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma once said. Perhaps, the African people have never come closer in their endeavor towards making the dream […]

United Nations- Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent recommends reparations for African Americans United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner The history of slavery in the United States justifies reparations for African Americans, argues a recent report by a U.N.-affiliated group based in Geneva. The Working Group of Experts on […]

Obama administration the U.S. Government to pay $492 million to 17 Native American tribes The settlements mark the end of a push by the Obama administration to resolve what the U.S. says is more than 100 lawsuits totaling more than $3.3 billion brought by American Indian individuals and tribal governments against the federal government. Rebecca […]

Canada’s population now more than 36 million after refugee influx last year Statistics Canada says such an increase in population last year hasn’t been seen since 1988-89. Statistics Canada also said a record 320,932 immigrants came to Canada last year. The Canadian Press OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says a record number of immigrants arriving in […]