The #GuptaLeaks is a big South African story, but it should be as big a story in the United States, the United Kingdom and in India. Joseph Stiglitz, speaking at the GIJN closing keynote address last night in a packed Wits University Great Hall in Johannesburg, joined the dots to illustrate the global reach of the Gupta scandal.
Armenia’s Ministry of Emergency Situations says that one Armenian citizen died, and another injured, in an accident that occurred earlier today on the Krasnodar-Armavir stretch of roadway in Russia.
Most parents of schoolchildren in Jrarbi, a village in Armenia’s Armavir Province, today gathered in front of the school, protesting conditions inside, and demanding the government pay attention to the issue.
“We are also children. We’re not abnormal or sick. We shouldn’t be differentiated from the others.”