| In Russia, getting arrested isn’t personal. It’s just business. Posted: 04 Mar 2019 01:52 PM PST ![In Russia, getting arrested isn't personal. It's just business.]( "In Russia, getting arrested isn't personal. It's just business.") Late last month, Russia's largest private equity firm took the extremely unusual step of publishing an open letter to President Vladimir Putin. The case has triggered international shock waves, with many suspecting Mr. Calvey's arrest and ongoing detention are somehow connected to the escalating geopolitical acrimony between the US and Russia. Rather, he has become a victim of Russia's vicious business environment – a reality that Putin has described and railed against repeatedly, most recently a few weeks ago in his State of the Nation address.
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| To help the homeless, there’s an app for that Posted: 04 Mar 2019 12:13 PM PST ![To help the homeless, there's an app for that]( "To help the homeless, there's an app for that") Shining her flashlight from the sidewalk below, Ms. Just, a retired state worker, offered a cautious "Hello?" A few moments later, two men emerged from the tent, and she conducted short interviews with each of them, recording their answers using another mobile app. The survey's organizers introduced the two apps this year seeking to gain a more accurate and detailed census of the county's homeless population, which the 2017 survey showed had climbed to nearly 3,700, a 30 percent increase from two years earlier. "You're not going to find everybody who's homeless," says Arturo Baiocchi, a research fellow at the Institute for Social Research in Sacramento who oversaw data collection for the county's survey.
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| A new style of leadership starts to reshape Mexico Posted: 04 Mar 2019 10:59 AM PST ![A new style of leadership starts to reshape Mexico]( "A new style of leadership starts to reshape Mexico") Three months after taking office, Mexico's new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, or AMLO as he is known, is enjoying a double success. Mexico, however, is hardly normal these days. The flow of migrant "caravans" from Central America is causing conflict with the United States and inside Mexico.
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