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Biden uses complex approach to stem US fentanyl deaths

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UNITED STATES

Fentanyl is mainly produced by two Mexican cartels and smuggled into the United States, where dealers cut it with other illegal narcotics or use it to make fake prescription…

Under-employment to drive the West's wages and policy

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INTERNATIONAL

The impact of working less hours on policy.

Pandemic has worsened several US societal problems

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UNITED STATES

While the pandemic has both amplified and illuminated areas of racial, gender and economic inequality, it has also overshadowed a range of worsening societal problems that had…

US homeless numbers will be slow to fall

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UNITED STATES

Voters increasingly associate homelessness with two other political issues: concern about immigration and a perception that urban crime is increasing. This is complicating efforts…

Pandemic deepens long-term risks to US women workers

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UNITED STATES

Women, especially those from minorities, are more likely to have dropped out of the labour force or moved to part-time or precarious employment. Jobs recovery has also been slower…

Rising southern conflict threatens Yemen’s future

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YEMEN

The Hadi government and the STC have been slow to implement the November 2019 Riyadh Agreement on power-sharing in the south. Tensions have again been rising between the two sides…

US Venezuela sanctions strategy will face pressures

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VENEZUELA/US

US President Joe Biden’s administration is under mounting international and domestic pressure to reverse the decision by the outgoing Trump administration to suspend Venezuela’s…

Palestinian refugee violence will be hard to control

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PALESTINIANS

The tensions have been exacerbated by increasing high levels of poverty, triggered by the collapse of the Lebanese economy and a UN funding gap, weak Palestinian leadership, the…

Critical EU report on Turkey may trigger 'Turexit'

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EUROPE/TURKEY

Turkey's faltering EU accession process looks more at risk than ever, following Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn's warning that Ankara had "clearly chosen to move away from…

Political machinations will worsen Venezuela crisis

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VENEZUELA

In a lengthy live broadcast on February 17, President Nicolas Maduro announced measures intended to address the grave economic crisis, while the opposition-dominated National…