Global Affairs: Weekly Outlook for July 20
Weekly Outlook for July 20: This week we present an opinion piece on Design & Money, Reportage of South Africa’s Freeze on AIDS Funding, Turkey’s Fragile Economy, Israel Rejects the US’ Call to Hold Development, and lastly an article on the Evolving Relationship between Pakistan & India. Click Read More for the entire report.
The Weekly Outlook is an editorial briefing for wejetset’s online magazine. Each week we scan international news and aggregate the stories that will likely impact their respective region and possibly the world. From economic issues to politics, we strive to deliver news that will be useful to our readers as they navigate their local and global spaces.
Could the US Currency use a redesign!? “In a recent piece for The Atlantic, the designer Michael Bierut addressed the state of something on all of our minds these days. Money. Specifically, its design, which Bierut is none too happy about. On the back side of the U.S. dollar, we are faced, says Bierut, with the general effect of “a cake that has been decorated to within an inch of its life.” As for those enormous purple numbers added to deter counterfeiters a few years ago? “A denim patch on a satin dress,” says Bierut…”
“South Africa has stopped funding research on an AIDS vaccine, a leading scientist said Monday, even as a major vaccine trial on humans began in the country ravaged by the world’s worst AIDS epidemic…”
“Along the Bosporus in Istanbul, the deluxe restaurants and discos are packed and the mood is decidedly upbeat as the glitterati down champagne and belly-dance the night away. They seem unfazed by a stream of bad news about the Turkish economy…“
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected Sunday an American call to hold off on a planned Jewish housing development in East Jerusalem, saying Israel’s sovereignty over the disputed city could not be challenged…”
“When France and Germany put years of enmity behind them after World War Two, they made a leap of faith in agreeing to entwine their economies so that war became impossible. With their economies now soldered by the euro, it can be easy to forget how deep their mutual distrust once ran – from the Napoleonic wars to the fall of Paris to Prussia in 1871, to the trenches of World War One and the Nazi occupation of France in World War Two. As India and Pakistan begin yet another attempt to make peace, they face a similar challenge. Can they put aside years of distrust to build on a tentative thaw in relations?”
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