South Africa is twice the size of France and five times as big as the UK. With an area of 1.2-million square kilometres, it dwarfs the countries of Europe – except Russia – but doesn’t stand up to the giants of Asia and the Americas. Data source: UN Statistics Division, Demographic...
Declared its independence in 1991. It is recognized by 4 UN member states (Russia, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Nauru) and 4 UN non-member states (Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh and Transnistria). Officially part of Georgia proper.I personallytravel to South Ossetiain ...
OPEC has 12 members: Algeria, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela.2 Ten non-OPEC nations joined OPEC to form OPEC+ in late 2016 to have more control of the global crude oil market. These countries ...
Trump said Hamas is weakened, but he’s hardly certain that the temporary truce between Israel and Hamas will hold. “I’m not confident,” Trump told reporters. “That’s not our war. It’s their war.” He said his administration “might” help rebuild Gaza, which he compared to a ...
It’s important to understand the impetus of the chatter and follow the reactions of the media and different online communities. This will help you to gauge the significance of the potential crisis. Just how big is this issue? Are there hundreds of people talking about this incident, or only...
1. How much each retiree can receive from the social security system? 2..How much was the contribution of each old retiree when he or she was young? 3. What is the implicit return on the social security system? How much of Venezuela's economic crisis is due to the ...
There will be no HALs on my watch – I’m driven to ensure AI advancements are equitable, just, and beneficial for all.” This example identifies a topic the student is clearly passionate about, explains how they’ve actively worked to learn more about it, and gives us a sense of how ...
This summer, the yen is stoking market jitters. For as the US dollar has rallied amid expectations that the country’s rates will remain higher for longer, the Japanese currency has slid to Â¥160 a dollar – sparking furtive intervention...
The use of corporate power to undermine public health policy processes is increasingly well understood; however, relatively little scholarship examines how advocates can leverage power to promote the successful adoption of public health policies. The obj