Residents of Indian-controlled Kashmir are gearing up for their first regional election in a decade that will allow them to have their own truncated government, also known as a local assembly, instead of remaining under New Delhi's direct rule. Muslim-majority Kashmir is divided between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan and claimed
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World’s richest 1% gained $40 tn in a decade: Oxfam
The world's richest one percent increased their fortunes by a total of $42 trillion over the past decade, Oxfam said Thursday, ahead of a G20 summit in Brazil where taxing the super-rich tops the agenda. Despite this windfall, taxes on the rich had plummeted to "historic lows", the NGO added, warning