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After rainy season that wasn’t, parched Mexico City starts restricting water

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MEXICO CITY — On a bank of Villa Victoria reservoir, where in other years boats might have used them to anchor, 10 concrete blocks lie exposed to the sun. They should be under water, but that was before severe drought dropped the reservoir to the lowest level that Gabriel Bejarano has seen since he moved … Read more

India leads the world in restricting access to the Internet

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October 18, 2023 at 10:00 p.m. EDT (Illustration by Shubhadeep Mukherjee; AFP/Getty Images; Biplov Bhuyan/SOPA/Sipa/AP)Comment on this storyComment CHURACHANDPUR, India — During times of civil unrest and political turmoil, authorities around the world frequently cut access to the internet to control their populations and throttle the flow of information. The militaries in Sudan and Myanmar … Read more

SAG-AFTRA is proscribing what tasks can proceed in the course of the strike

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In an act of solidarity with the Writers Guild of America (WGA), the Display Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) will now not grant permission to impartial tasks that fall underneath WGA contracts to proceed manufacturing in the course of the ongoing strike. On July 14th SAG-AFTRA introduced by way of an announcement on its web site that … Read more