#Countries

Moon's biggest achievements - A THREAD#JIN #SEOKJIN #진 #방탄소년단진 @BTS_twt • #1 on iTunes US, Canada, France• #1 in 100 Countries total• #5 on Rolling Stones list of Greatest Boy
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A couple of thoughts on @HyunSongShin latest BIS bulletin (a great series by the way).1/ Think now clear that a high level of foreign holders of EM local currency debt
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1/25One thing that isn't well captured in this CPI is wage inflation. People use that as an excuse to avoid rate hikes, with the view that an average rising wage
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It's no big mystery that racially & economically homogenous countries find it politically easier to pass broad pro-social programs, like excellent cycling infrastructure. So I'm like on this enthusiastic
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7 Amazing Facts You Probably Don’t Know About Nigeria. Thread!1. Nigeria is home to seven percent (7%) of the total languages spoken on earth. Taraba state alone has more languages
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1/x Churchill supported clearances in Kenya’s highlands of the local Kikuyu people, he called them “brutish children”. During the suppression 11,000 Kenyans died with 100,000 forced into detention camps, where
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It's telling you're reaching for NZ as a comparison of how we should be doing better as an island in Western Europe, and not the UK, an island actually in
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one of the scariest times to be alive must've been in the months after the nazis invaded the soviet union with the largest army amassed in human history, 3.8 million
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How to understand the big Israel-Bahrain/UAE deals?Today Trump will preside over normalization accords between Israel and Bahrain and UAE.Let’s unpack this:One: Is this a good thing?In terms of reducing tensions
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1.5 Greece and Cyprus have reversed easing the travel restrictions on that allowed Lebanese travelers with a valid visa to fly in and pass the borders base on a
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Oh, I have a new very-controversial-sounding take that's actually not just technically correct but also meaningful:Fascism isn't that bad. Fascism isn't just death camps and extrajudicial killings. Fascism is encouraging
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There is an argument gaining traction that every country will now need to be self-sufficient in things like manufacturing masks. A line pushed, for example, by Thierry Breton, an EU
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I would love to quantify this, and maybe I will down the line, but my sense is that when We, The Party™, do Hispanic and Latino outreach, we emphasize a
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Trump has shown blue states dont have a president. He allows west coast to burn with barely any action but insulting dems. He wages war on dem cities. He threatens
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We do not know the experiences, backgrounds and personal stories of every person trying to cross the English Channel. But it is clear that many of them intend to claim
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1/Just a flag? Attending as many military funerals as I do I still watch the ceremony intently, especially the folding and presentation of the American flag to the family. Did
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