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Nations Collide in Action-Packed New ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Clip

via Marvel Studios Wakanda is at war in the latest promotional clip posted by movie ticketing company Fandango. The sneak peek at the rumored to be epic sequel to Black Panther, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever shows the fictional MCU nations of Wakanda and Talokan at each other’s throats like no clip we’ve seen so far, and promises battle sequences we haven’t seen in the MCU since Infinity War. The clip shows the citizens of the Birnin Zana, the capital city of the African nation of Wakanda doing everything…

A Freshly Panned In-House Exclusive Terrorizes the Netflix Top 10 in 78 Nations

via Netflix Death, taxes, and underwhelming Netflix originals are three of the very few guarantees in life, so it’s without a single shred of surprise we discover that The Curse of Bridge Hollow has laughed in the face of a critical drubbing to instantaneously become one of the platform’s biggest hits. As per FlixPatrol, since being added to the library this past Friday, the latest Marlon Wayans comedy that lives to disappoint has snaffled a position on the Top 10 most-watched list in no less than 78 countries…

IMF Urges Faster Debt Relief for Nations Fighting High Inflation, Hunger

Officials from the International Monetary Fund said the governments of poorer countries need better ways to restructure their debt loads totaling billions of dollars to survive a cost-of-living and hunger crisis that is quickly taking root around the world. “The world has seen extraordinary upheaval,” Kristalina Georgieva, the IMF’s managing director, said Friday, speaking at the closing session of the international financial institution’s annual meetings in Washington. Officials from…

54 poor nations in dire need of debt relief

The poor, indebted countries are facing converging economic pressures and many find it impossible to pay back their debt or access new financing. According to available data, 46 of the 54 countries had amassed public debt totalling $782 billion in 2020, the UN report said.…

Fatal police shootings in US are more prevalent and training is more limited than in other nations

A model of the incidence of fatal police violence within an organizational or geographic unit. Credit: Annual Review of Criminology (2022). DOI: 10.1146/annurev-criminol-030421-040247 Police in the U.S. deal with more diverse, distressed and aggrieved populations and are involved in more incidents involving firearms, but they average only five months of classroom training—the briefest among 18 countries examined in a Rutgers…

How To Watch the UEFA Nations League Live

Despite the very first winter World Cup being less than two months away, the first international break of the season isn’t all about friendly matches. Instead, the Nations League takes centre stage, with the winner of UEFA’s tournament not decided until next June. We’re still in the group stages right now, but England face an uphill battle after gaining just two points from their opening four games. It’s a similar store for most of the Home Nations, although Scotland are looking competitive with two wins to their…

South Korean islets of Dokdo ‘not named’ on iPhone maps in 22 nations

South Korea's easternmost islets of Dokdo were not named on iPhone maps in the US, Britain and 20 other countries, a professor said amid diplomatic tensions with Tokyo over Japan's renewed claims to the East Sea outcroppings.Dokdo has long been a recurring source of tension between the two neighbours, as Tokyo continues to make the sovereignty claims in its policy papers, public statements and school textbooks.The name of Dokdo was not seen in 22 countries' iPhone maps, including France, Egypt and the Philippines, said…