Today at WPR, we’ve got stories on the cost of South Africa’s false neutrality on the war in Ukraine, Erdogan’s support among Turkish-Germans, and the problems with resettlement schemes for refugees and asylum-seekers.
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Today at WPR, we’re covering former Pakistani PM Imran Khan’s standoff with the country’s military and a dangerous new development in Haiti’s ongoing crisis.
Today at WPR, we’ve got stories on Lula’s dream of a Latin American currency and Spanish PM Sanchez’s surprise snap election announcement.
Of all the doomsday predictions about our planetary future from the 1960s and 1970s, perhaps none was so wrong as the fear about overpopulation. The reality has proven to be just as alarming, if for the opposite reason: In every region of the world except Africa, population levels have begun to level off due to declining birthrates.
Earlier this week, South Africa issued immunity to all foreign leaders attending the BRICS summit in August. Pretoria insisted it was a routine measure for international gatherings the country hosts. But many observers saw it as a way to allow Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend the summit despite an ICC arrest warrant.