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Bolivia which elected the Left wing President Luis Arce in 2020 giving a big boost to the Left and progressive forces in Latin America, is facing a split in its political leadership with the present president fighting the former president and Arce’s mentor Evo Morales.

“Indian-American” Nikki Haley’s race against “American-American” Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination was belly up in all Super Tuesday states. The exception being Vermont, where even conservatives largely vote liberal. But after the votes were cast and the votes were counted, Trump hadn’t clinched the threshold of 2015 delegates required to be named Republican presidential nominee.

Last month the Taliban's Deputy Foreign Minister Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai while attending a public program said that there is an absence of an official border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. He further said that Afghanistan will never recognize the Durand Line as its official border with Pakistan.

In a visionary move that reshapes the traditional Hollywood financing landscape, Paul Scanlan and Jeff Annison materialized their brainchild, Legion M, not merely as a production studio but as a thriving community. Breaking away from the conventional model, Legion M is part of a Hollywood transformation that embraces crowdfunding, allowing film and television producers to seek donations while providing investors with substantial returns beyond exclusive merchandise, CNBC reported recently.

Gawa, originating from a Mizo village in Myanmar close to the Indian border, escaped in December after her village was destroyed by fire. Now, as a mother of two, she is among the numerous individuals seeking shelter along the border, attempting to escape the intensifying civil conflict in Myanmar.

The seven day session of the National People’s Congress (NPC) of China began in Beijing on March 5 with the whole world, especially the international financial institutions like World Bank and IMF monitoring and analyzing every statement made by the Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang on the plans for the regeneration of the economy after some setbacks in 2022 and 2023. LI’s work report presented during the day on the economic policies to be pursued in 2024 portrayed a picture of strong confidence in the goal of the Chinese Communist Party to emerge as the largest economy of the world surpassing the USA within a short period.

Shehbaz Sharif, on taking charge as prime minister of a new Pakistani dispensation has raked up the Kashmir issue even as he finds himself presiding over a precarious economy with the country's situation worsened by sharp polarisation and a fraught security system. Pakistan in so many words is in choppy waters.

Two ongoing devastating wars – one in Ukraine and the other in the Gaza strip – have so far killed and injured tens of thousands of civilians since last year. The Ukraine-Russia war started in February 2022. As of February 15, this year, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) verified a total of 30,457 civilian casualties in the course of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Of them, 19,875 were reported to have been injured. Nearly 3.7 million Ukrainians were internally displaced. Around 6.5 million refugees from Ukraine have been recorded globally. Approximately 14.6 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance in 2024. In Gaza, at least 29,782 people have been killed and 70,043 wounded in Israeli attacks since October 7, last year. The revised death toll in Israel stands at 1,139. The war continues. Gaza-based Palestinians, comprising large numbers of children and women, are dying in hordes almost every day. So far, little pressure has been exerted by the friends of Israel and Palestine on the two sides to bring the mindless war to an end.

Brazil, as the president of G-20 has taken the move to place a proposal for the imposition of a global tax on super-rich in order to bring down the level of inequality between the rich and the poor in the current phase of the global economy. Brazil’s finance minister told a G20 meeting in Sao Paulo on Thursday that countries should implement a global tax on the super-rich in an effort to tackle rampant tax evasion.

After a pause of nearly a year, the quick-changing politics in the breathtakingly beautiful Himalayan country Nepal is once again at it. As per reports, the coalition government headed by Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, more popularly known by his nickname "Prachanda," will see its major coalition partner, Nepali Congress, replaced by CPN (UML).