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Julie Carballo

Julie Carballo is a journalist for Newsendip.

She used to work for the French newspaper Le Figaro and at the Italian bureau of the international press agency AFP.

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Chinese students targeted by kidnapping scams in Australia

Recently, students in Perth have been targeted by con artists who manipulate them into staging their own kidnappings to extort ransoms from their parents. Since early August, four students aged 18 to 22 and their families have fallen victim to this new scam, which has become increasingly common across Australia.…
June 6, 2024
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President of Portugal

In Portugal, the President stirred up the debate on colonial reparations

Portugal's President has called for reparations for the crimes committed by his country during the transatlantic slave trade and the colonial era, sparking a domestic debate that is gaining ground among former colonized countries. It drew the ire of the Portuguese far-right, which considers taking legal action for "treason to the homeland."…
May 8, 2024
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Tanzania is boosting safari tourism despite allegations of murders and evictions

The Ruaha National Park expansion project has been subjected to several investigations into abuses, prompting the World Bank to withhold its latest funding. While wildlife populations are on the rise in Tanzania, the development of safaris and tourism, the country's main driver of economic growth, may occur by abusing local populations.…
April 25, 2024
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Facial recognition system deemed racist in New Zealand supermarkets

A woman of Māori origin was recently misidentified as a shoplifter in a supermarket testing new facial recognition technology. Far from an isolated event, this incident occurred amidst a broader trend of governments introducing new measures to combat the upsurge in shoplifting.…
April 25, 2024
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The Netherlands is still battling to solve its nitrogen problem

For years, the Netherlands has been gripped by a crisis linked to nitrogen emissions from manure, which environmentalists say is destroying the country's ecosystems. A European Union derogation allowing Dutch farmers to use more manure than their neighboring countries will end next year. …
April 18, 2024
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Lithuania abandons its pennies

Last Thursday, the Lithuanian Parliament passed a bill to phase out 1 and 2-cent coins. The amount of goods and services will be rounded up once the legislation comes into effect on May 1, 2025.…
April 4, 2024
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Cannabis legalization: is Germany balking?

The law on the legalization of cannabis should soon come into force in Germany, but many Länder ministers are urging for revisions and advocating for a delay in its implementation.…
March 13, 2024
A man with a bicycle, two women on their phones and other people all crossing a busy road in Shanghai.

Can entrepreneurship boost China’s economy?

A total of nearly 124 million sole proprietorships were registered across China by the end of 2023, representing an 11.4% increase on the previous year, amidst the challenges of a complicated economic recovery.…
February 12, 2024

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