World News: 04 March 2023

BBC raids show India's shrinking media freedom under Modi
Since Modi took office in 2014, India has slid from 140th in World Press Freedom Index, an annual ranking by non-profit Reporters Without Borders, to 150th place last year, its lowest ever.
Modi’s government rejects the Index’s findings, questioning its methodology, and says India has a vibrant free press.

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Xi Jinping's power grab - and why it matters
China's leader has overhauled the Communist Party placing himself at the core and nobody else has even a remote chance of challenging him.
The starkest representation of this will be in the shift in personnel to be announced at the annual political meeting, a rubber-stamp session of nearly 3,000 delegates.

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Sao Paulo govt to hire World Bank to study privatizing water utility
"The privatization of Sabesp is a very complex matter," Governor Freitas told Reuters after attending an event in Rio de Janeiro.
Freitas said utility would only be privatized "if we reach the conclusion that we are going to increase efficiency, have upsides, reduce tariffs."
"I think that all these objectives are possible and I understand that studies will show this," he said.

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Human Wildlife conflict still on the rise globally
"So what we did is we made an assumption that if a community in Kenya or a community in Sweden or a community in Norway lost a single cattle calf that weighs 250 kilogrammes, how would that impact the per capita income. And we found that countries on average living in the developing economies mainly in the Global South that live alongside carnivores, species like cheetahs, lions, tigers, they suffer about 8 times higher economic vulnerability when you compare them to developed economies say in the United States, Sweden, Norway," says Conservation Biologist Alexander Braczkowski.

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International drug bust nets $677 mln of cocaine bound for Australia
Hailing the success of "Operation Beech" Western Australia police commissioner Col Blanch in a statement: "The operation sends a message to international drug traffickers – your deadly drugs are not welcome here."

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Brooklyn Nets stun Boston Celtics in season's biggest fightback
The Nets had whittled the deficit to nine points at halftime and took the lead for the first time -- and for good -- with 6:11 left in the third quarter.
The win marked the biggest comeback of the season, eclipsing the Lakers' fightback from a 27-point deficit in a victory over Dallas.

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