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Lesson 18. I wish I had more...
King Charles III is set to face demands to pay $260 billion in compensation for Britain's role in the transatlantic slave trade. The British monarch will attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government summit later this week. The annual meeting brings together leaders of 56 member states that were once territories or colonies of the former British Empire. Fifteen Caribbean nations have unanimously agreed to raise the issue of slave trade reparations at the summit. Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley said the U.K. needed to atone for its past atrocities. U.N. judge Patrick Robinson puts the realistic amount of reparations for damage done by Britain during the slave trade at $25 trillion.
Lesson 17. Conditionals.
1. Guatemala’s sugar agroindustry, Latin America’s third-largest producer, generates almost $700 million in foreign exchange annualy and provides more than 55,000 direct jobs and 278,000 indirect jobs in the country. The sector is served by 6,000 small, medium-sized and large enterprises, in turn generating more employment.
Lesson 16. Modality, Probability, Habits.
1. THE OVERWHELMING RESURGENCE OF THE PARTYSTATE as the driving force in Chinese society, along with the premature curtailment (сокращение) of a kind of Chinese enlightenment, does not bode (не предвещает) well for the country’s future. The relatively brief portions of Wang’s book that look to the coming decades make clear that China will face strong headwinds. This does not amount to a prediction of collapse or decline. But Wang believes that high growth rates are a thing of the past. One of the most import ant headwinds falls directly under Wang’s field of expertise: demographics. There will be no reversing the monumental trend toward population decline. According to the median projection of the United Nations Population Division...
Lesson 15. Golpe de Estado.
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Lesson 13. Natural Disasters.
1. London’s return to focusing on European security, alongside its gentle tilt to the Indo-Pacific, aligns with Washington’s current policies. The question is what will happen after the November U.S. elections. Former U.S. President Donald Trump has made clear that the EU, which ran a surplus of more than $200 billion in its goods trade with the United States in 2023, will feel the full force of his retaliatory (ответный) trade policy, of which Britain may be spared (=not touch).