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Postal workers in Orléans, France begin indefinite strike over increased workloads and in Leipzig, Germany postal workers strike over pay and conditions; workers and retirees continue protests against ...

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A bold initiative seeks global cooperation to bring power to 300 million Africans. Success means overcoming nationalism, bureaucracy and decades of neglect.

as did Cape Town in South Africa, which came seriously close to running out of water entirely due to a drought that started in 2015. “A lot of the large cities globally developed or grew rapidly ...