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Human rights activists demand the safe return of Ricardo Lagunes and Antonio Díaz, community defenders who disappeared on January 15. Mexico City, Mexico, January 22, 2023.

Hard Numbers: Environmentalists targeted, World Bank outlook improves, mass shooting in Louisville, fiery cocktails in Northern Ireland, Winnie-the-Pooh gets punched

This year alone, at least two dozen environmental activists have already been murdered or disappeared in Mexico and Central America, according to an investigation by The Guardian.

Grief & controversy in Japan for Shinzo Abe's state funeral

Grief & controversy in Japan for Shinzo Abe's state funeral

Ian Bremmer reports from Tokyo, Japan, following the state funeral of Shinzo Abe, the prime minister who was assassinated some 80 days ago. An astonishing couple of weeks for the world: early last week, the funeral for Queen Elizabeth, by far the most important figure for the United Kingdom in the post-war period. Then the United Nations General Assembly, where the entire world comes together in New York, and now the first state funeral held in Japan in 55 years for Abe Shinzo, who is by far the most important figure in Japan in the post-war period.