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USA – The road to fix America’s broken immigration system begins abroad (Dany Bahar, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/12/08/the-road-to-fix-americas-broken-immigration-system-begins-abroad/

CITIES/SDGs – City playbook for advancing the SDGs (Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/multi-chapter-report/city-playbook-for-advancing-the-sdgs/

USA – Framing a privacy right: Legislative findings for federal privacy legislation (Cameron F. Kerry and John B. Morris, Jr., Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/research/framing-a-privacy-right-legislative-findings-for-federal-privacy-legislation/

USA – New White House guidance downplays important AI harms (Alex Engler, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2020/12/08/new-white-house-guidance-downplays-important-ai-harms/

USA – To weather the coming eviction crisis, cities need better rent relief programs (Jenny Schuetz, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2020/12/08/to-weather-the-coming-eviction-crisis-cities-need-better-rent-relief-programs/

CENTRAL AMERICA – Over 400,000 need urgent aid in Central America: Rights group (Al Jazeera)

More than 400,000 people in Honduras and Guatemala are in urgent need of humanitarian aid, a refugee rights group said on Wednesday, over a month after...

CANADA/CHINA – Kovrig, Spavor ‘strong’ after two-year China detention: Canada (Al Jazeera)

Two Canadian men who have been detained by China for more than two years, in what Canada sees as retribution for its arrest of...

KOREAS – ‘Reckless’: N Korea chides Seoul for doubting zero COVID-19 cases (Al Jazeera)

North Korea has condemned South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha for casting doubt over its claim that the country has had no coronavirus outbreaks,...

USA/CHINA/UIGHUR – Intel, Nvidia probed over tech allegedly used against Uighurs (Al Jazeera)

United States Republican Senator Marco Rubio and Democratic Representative Jim McGovern on Tuesday sent letters to Intel Corp and Nvidia Corp seeking information on...

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