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IIMB holds discussion on role of localised policymaking in global climate reparations

The Centre for Management Communication, a Centre of Excellence at IIM Bangalore, in collaboration with the Centre for Environment Education, organised a roundtable discussion recently on the role of sub-national policies in tackling climate change at the IIMB campus. Following a recent publication from CEE titled, ‘Role of Sub-National Policies in Addressing the Climate Change Challenge – Learnings from Karnataka’s …

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1 month, 1 week ago

What’s ‘romantasy’? What’s a cool girl? The internet’s favorite book genres

LA Times

Authors like Rebecca Yarros and Sarah J. Maas are fueling the romantasy genre and inspiring launch parties, like the one above celebrating the midnight release of “Iron Flame,” the second book in Yarros’ Empyrean series. Yarros’ latest installment in her Empyrean series, “Onyx Storm,” was released a mere month ago, and the book’s hashtag has already been featured on more …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Trump's $500 billion Ukraine payback exceeds German war reparations: Report

India Today

US President Donald Trump has offered a deal worth USD 500 billion for war-torn Ukraine to take control of half of the European country's natural resources, including having access to Ukrainian rare earth minerals, oil and gas, and ports and infrastructure, according to a draft agreement seen by British newspaper The Telegraph. If Ukraine accepts the US's demands, which seems …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Victims of forced sterilisations in Peru seek apology, reparations after decades

The Hindu

Florentina Loayza was 19 and mother to an infant when she was sterilized by agents of the Peruvian government, against her will. "My life was cut short," Loayza told AFP, recounting how her partner abandoned her over the procedure, which also left her with lasting pain. His government said it had offered sterilization as part of a family planning project, …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Starmer's law chief Lord Hermer said there was a 'moral' case for Britain to pay slavery reparations, praised 'inspiring' Just Stop Oil and branded Trump an 'orange tyrant'

Daily Mail

The senior law officer in Keir Starmer's Labour government said there was a 'moral' argument that the UK should pay slavery reparations, praised Just Stop Oil and branded Donald Trump an 'orange tyrant'. Recently rediscovered podcasts recorded by Attorney General Lord Hermer before he became a minister show his outspoken views on a number of contentions issues. Lord Hermer is …

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Oxfam report: Britain should give India back its artefacts in lieu of £52trn in colonialism reparations, says historian

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The report, titled Takers not Makers: The Unjust Poverty …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Britain doesn’t owe £52 trillion in reparations – India deserves even more than that

The Independent

In 1969, when I came from India to study, I showed a professor a book I had detailing the harm the British had caused to India. Between 1757 and 1947, British per-capita income grew by 347 per cent; India’s by 14 per cent. In 1750, seven years before British rule began, India accounted for almost a quarter of the world’s …

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2 months, 4 weeks ago

Bannon demands reparations from 'sociopathic' Elon Musk: 'Not going to have a group hug!'

Raw Story

Right-wing influencer Steve Bannon doubled down on his battle against billionaire Elon Musk over the use of immigrant visas that Bannon claims take jobs away from Americans. After Musk defended H-1B visas last week, Bannon returned to his War Room podcast on Monday to attack the billionaire on behalf of his MAGA followers. "This is like the Borgias or the …

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3 months, 1 week ago

SNL's Colin Jost and Michael Che accused of going 'too far' with racist, sexist, homophobic jokes

Daily Mail

Saturday Night Live's Colin Jost and Michael Che stunned the crowd during their annual holiday joke swap. 'Brutal' jabs about slavery, sex, Scarlett Johansson, Jeffrey Epstein and Sean 'Diddy' Combs had Che and Jost fighting to keep their composure throughout the six-minute portion of last night's episode. Colin Jost and Michael Che stunned the SNL audience by making each other …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Australia’s MONA reopens controversial women-only art installation, allowing some men to enter for ‘reparations’

CNN

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. The Ladies Lounge, at the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania, Australia, was created five years ago by artist Kirsha Kaechele, the wife of the museum’s founder and owner David Walsh. A tribunal in Tasmania’s capital city Hobart subsequently ruled that …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Descendant of last native leader of Alaska island demands Japanese reparations for 1942 invasion

Associated Press

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Helena Pagano’s great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea, closer to Russia than North America. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print The Attuans “lost their homeland, they lost their family members,” Pagano said. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

California bill would allow public university admission priority for slaves’ descendants

Associated Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A California lawmaker introduced a bill Monday to allow admission priority to the descendants of slaves at the University of California and California State University, two of the largest public university systems in the nation. A movement to limit so-called DEI initiatives at the college and state level gained momentum after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Editorial: Palm Springs brutally displaced hundreds. They’re finally getting a measure of justice

LA Times

They were children when their families’ Palm Springs homes were bulldozed and burned as part of the systematic destruction of a community. A 1968 state report called it “a city-engineered holocaust.” Opinion Editorial: Palm Springs bulldozed a Black neighborhood. Compensate survivors The city of Palm Springs threw out hundreds of its Black residents in the 1960s and burned down their …

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4 months ago

Tulsa’s First Black Mayor Plans To Address An Ugly History

Huff Post

Oklahoma state Rep. Monroe Nichols is seen during a committee hearing in 2019 in Oklahoma City. Sue Ogrocki via Associated Press Earlier this month, former Oklahoma state Rep. Monroe Nichols was elected the first Black mayor of Tulsa. “I’m not naive to think that this man is not going to be able to do a whole lot without some push …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

California town's $6M reparations deal with black and Latino families

Daily Mail

A California city is set to vote on whether to approve a nearly $6million reparations deal with black and Latino families whose neighborhood was razed in the 1960s. Section 14 of Palm Springs, a one-mile tract owned by the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, was destroyed by city officials to make way for commercial development in the mid-1960s. More …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

California town agrees to $6 million reparations deal with black and Latino families of neighborhood razed in the 1960s

Daily Mail

A California city is set to vote on whether to approve a nearly $6million reparations deal with black and Latino families whose neighborhood was razed in the 1960s. Members of the Palm Springs Section 14 Survivors group approved a $5.9million settlement for the destruction of their neighborhood in the 1960s It is also set to vote on a package that …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

How Boris Johnson and King Charles clashed over slavery reparations: Former PM told aide: 'I went in pretty hard'

Daily Mail

Boris Johnson clashed with the King over the issue of slavery, fearing he had been captured by 'woke ideology', a new book reveals. It came after Charles had described the Tory government’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda as ‘appalling’, according to political journalist Tim Shipman In his account of Brexit – Out – he revealed Charles feared the …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Yet More Lies To Refuse Slavery Reparations Are Owed

China Daily

As an ethical matter, the claim that people today should pay for historic crimes overlooks the basic moral principle that punishment for a crime can only be meted out upon the criminal himself, not upon his descendants. Neither did "collective guilt" stop the the Anglo/Jew gangsters from extoriting cash out of Germany at Versailles. And Germany was the victim, refusing …

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Fight for reparations in California continues with ballot initiative

NPR

Fight for reparations in California continues with ballot initiative California lawmakers introduced over a dozen first-in-the-nation reparations bills this year, as reparations proponents across the country watched for a blueprint to replicate. CapRadio's Megan Myscofski in Sacramento reports lawmakers are hoping that voters will keep this effort alive this week when they decide on whether or not to keep forced …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Moves to drop 'Empire' from King's honours: Major new biography of Charles reveals Palace held talks over OBE recipients ditching reference to UK's colonial past

Daily Mail

Radical reforms being considered by royal officials could see the word ‘Empire’ dropped from British honours. A newly updated biography of the King, by the Mail’s Robert Hardman, quotes a senior Palace official saying: ‘Any change is a matter for the government, but I think that they would find that this place was pretty open to the idea.’ King Charles …

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4 months, 4 weeks ago

German president visits Greek village gutted by Nazi forces

Raw Story

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will on Thursday visit the Greek village of Kandanos in Crete, site of one the worst atrocities committed by Nazi occupation forces during World War II. Meeting with Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou in Athens on Wednesday, Steinmeier said brutalities committed by the Nazis constitute "a difficult subject that plays a role in our relations, and which …

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4 months, 4 weeks ago

Greek Leaders Revive WWII Reparations Claim, Despite German Denials

Associated Press

Greek leaders have revived a long-standing demand for war reparations stemming from Nazi Germany's World War II occupation of Greece. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has stated that he cannot be legally obligated to compensate Greece for the atrocities committed during the occupation, as Germany has already settled its reparations in post-war agreements.

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4 months, 4 weeks ago

Greek leaders tell German president a WWII reparations claim is very much alive

The Independent

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5 months ago

Robert Jenrick accused of ‘obnoxious distortion of history’ after saying former British colonies owe ‘debt of gratitude’

The Independent

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IIMB holds discussion on role of localised policymaking in global climate reparations

What’s ‘romantasy’? What’s a cool girl? The internet’s favorite book genres

Trump's $500 billion Ukraine payback exceeds German war reparations: Report

Victims of forced sterilisations in Peru seek apology, reparations after decades

Starmer's law chief Lord Hermer said there was a 'moral' case for Britain to pay slavery reparations, praised 'inspiring' Just Stop Oil and branded Trump an 'orange tyrant'

Oxfam report: Britain should give India back its artefacts in lieu of £52trn in colonialism reparations, says historian

Britain doesn’t owe £52 trillion in reparations – India deserves even more than that

Bannon demands reparations from 'sociopathic' Elon Musk: 'Not going to have a group hug!'

SNL's Colin Jost and Michael Che accused of going 'too far' with racist, sexist, homophobic jokes

Australia’s MONA reopens controversial women-only art installation, allowing some men to enter for ‘reparations’

Descendant of last native leader of Alaska island demands Japanese reparations for 1942 invasion

California bill would allow public university admission priority for slaves’ descendants

Editorial: Palm Springs brutally displaced hundreds. They’re finally getting a measure of justice

Tulsa’s First Black Mayor Plans To Address An Ugly History

California town's $6M reparations deal with black and Latino families

California town agrees to $6 million reparations deal with black and Latino families of neighborhood razed in the 1960s

How Boris Johnson and King Charles clashed over slavery reparations: Former PM told aide: 'I went in pretty hard'

Yet More Lies To Refuse Slavery Reparations Are Owed

Fight for reparations in California continues with ballot initiative

Moves to drop 'Empire' from King's honours: Major new biography of Charles reveals Palace held talks over OBE recipients ditching reference to UK's colonial past

German president visits Greek village gutted by Nazi forces

Greek Leaders Revive WWII Reparations Claim, Despite German Denials

Greek leaders tell German president a WWII reparations claim is very much alive

Robert Jenrick accused of ‘obnoxious distortion of history’ after saying former British colonies owe ‘debt of gratitude’