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USA – From relief to recovery. Using federal funds to spur a small business rebound (Joseph Parilla and Sifan Liu, Brookings)

With the nation deploying COVID-19 vaccines, the pandemic in retreat, and the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan (ARP) delivering flexible resources to localities and...

Haiti – Haiti police hunt down Moise’s killers as fears of chaos grow (Al Jazeera)

Security forces in Haiti have shot dead four suspected killers of President Jovenel Moise and captured two others, the country’s police chief said on...

Colombia – Colombia used ‘excessive’ force against protesters: IACHR (Megan Janetsky, Al Jazeera)

The Colombian government used “excessive and disproportionate” force during mass protests earlier this year, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) said in a long-awaited report...

India – India gets new ministers for health, IT, oil amid COVID crisis (Al Jazeera)

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appointed new federal ministers for health, IT and oil as part of a reshuffle aimed at refurbishing his...

Kazakhstan/ISIS – Kazakh efforts to repatriate ISIL fighters should be replicated (Talgat Kaliyev, Al Jazeera)

It feels like a long time ago that we fought the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS). The...

Iraq – Basra protests erupt as power cuts hit scorching Iraq (Azhar Al-Rubaie, Al Jazeera)

As summer temperatures reached scorching levels, hundreds of Iraqis poured into the streets to protest widespread power outages in Baghdad and the country’s southern...

Israel – Israel swears in Isaac Herzog as 11th president (Al Jazeera)

Isaac Herzog pledged to heal deep divisions in Israeli society as he took the oath of office to become Israel’s 11th president. With one hand...

OPEC/Saudi Arabia/UAE – Saudi-UAE rivalry takes shape amid OPEC spat and competing hubs (Sean Mathews, Al Jazeera)

The United Arab Emirates’ refusal to agree to a Saudi-backed plan to boost oil output is the latest in an emerging rivalry playing out...

TechInnovation – Indonesian edtech startup Gredu raises $4M Series A to keep teachers, parents and students engaged with one another (Catherine Shu, TechCrunch)

Many teachers and parents in Indonesia rely on WhatsApp to keep in touch, creating “multiple groups that often become messy and highly ineffective, and...

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