South Africa and Egypt have the most names on the list with 3 each, followed by Nigeria with 2. Only one woman features on the list -- Angola’s richest person, Isabel Dos Santos. American business magazine, Forbes, describes these people as members of the three-comma club. While most of them are engaged in known philanthropic endeavours, a notable exception is Issad Rebrab, Algeria’s richest man. ADVERTISEMENT
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As the movie version of the last Hunger Games book, Mockingjay, Part 2, arrives in theaters Friday, the popularity of books and movies geared to young adults is a well-established phenomenon. Still, that wave of young-adult fiction is frequently seen as a cultural force for this generation—when in actuality the YA category is older than you’d expect.
Although there were 19th century books about and aimed at young readers—including Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—it wasn’t until the mid-20th century that a separate category dedicated to the interests of teenagers emerged. Read More...
There is little doubt that Israel was behind the audacious assassination of Hamas’ hostage-deal negotiator and political head Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on Wednesday. By deliberately maximizing Tehran’s embarrassment—Haniyeh was killed only hours after the inauguration of Iran’s new reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian—the Israeli government also maximized the likelihood of Iranian retaliation. That is—at least in the view of a former Deputy Head of the Israeli National Security Council—because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to spark a larger war and drag the U. Read More...