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May 21, 2019
This week's recs on good stuff outside of the news cycle.
Watch:Ramy, Egyptian-American comedian Ramy Yousseff's eye-opening autobiographical sitcom about the comedy and conflicts of growing up as a Muslim millennial in the shadow of New York City. The log line for the show should really be "Sex, Drugs, and Allah."
Hear: Three-time Grammy winner Angélique Kidjo's spectacular reinterpretation of Cuban salsa legend Celia Cruz's repertoire. It's a musical adventure of world historical scope: Kidjo is from Benin, whose territory is home to many of the musical and religious traditions that, via the slave trade, formed the basis of Afro-Cuban music.
Drink: A cup of coffee and read this piece on how soaring production from traditional coffee superpowers like Colombia and Brazil has outstripped demand, driving farmers out of business in Central American countries where violence has already led hundreds of thousands of to risk northward journeys in search of refuge and opportunity.More For You
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney attended a meeting of the European Political Community in Armenia this weekend, a first by the leader of a non-European country. He was invited to discuss common interests in trade, energy, and security. In a speech that echoed his address to the World Economic Forum in Davos two months earlier, Carney called on middle powers, including Canada and European nations, to work together in the wake of disruption of the established world order — implicitly pointing to the United States. “It’s my strong personal view that the international order will be rebuilt,” he told the crowd in Yerevan, “but it will be rebuilt out of Europe.”
Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan’s government fell after losing a no-confidence vote, putting Romania’s access to EU recovery funds – worth approximately $13 billion – at risk.
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Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan’s government fell after losing a no-confidence vote, putting Romania’s access to EU recovery funds – worth approximately $13 billion – at risk. The country, which has the largest budget deficit in the EU, has to complete the bloc’s mandated economic reforms by August to unlock the funds. But with its country’s pro-EU government pushed out, those reforms are uncertain.
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