In Spain, housing protests began in September after an 87-year-old woman, Maricarmen Abascal, was evicted following a 230% rent increase by an investment fund.
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Sawdah Bhaimiya,
CNBC,
20 Oct. 2026
The land the tribe inhabited before being evicted is now divided among ranchers, government agencies and a conservation nonprofit.
Disqualifying both lists would have deprived the vast majority of Palestinian voters of their preferred political representation.
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Tamir Sorek,
The Conversation,
20 Oct. 2026
But the strain extends across the Global South, where developing nations struggle with a prolonged energy crisis that disproportionately squeezes the planet’s most deprived.
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