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Ce 2 octobre passé, Jamal Ahmed Khashoggi, célèbre journaliste saoudien, a été retrouvé mort, assassiné au consulat d’Arabie Saoudite à Istanbul. Le gouvernement turc initie alors une tumultueuse enquête pour retrouver les auteurs de son…
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Kiribati, a central Pacific nation comprised of 33 atolls and reef islands will be one of the first countries in the world to become uninhabitable due to the forces of climate change. Shoreline erosion, drought, groundwater salinity, and…
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*For the purposes of this article the term "migrant" is meant only to convey that the individual(s) in question are in the process of emigrating from their homes. It is not meant to refute their status as refugees, etc. should they apply…
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China’s increasing global and regional influence with respect to the world economy, military modernization, and geopolitical interests has marked a dramatic shift in its engagement with the United States. The world’s great power and its…
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Canada has always seen itself as a defender of human rights.  It was Lester B. Pearson, Canada’s “foremost diplomat” and prime minister from 1963-68,  who first proposed the idea of a United Nations Peacekeeping force. In the decades since,…
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The hard-earned, sweet taste of independence Bangladesh gained less than 50 years ago is already being overpowered by the bitterness of constant internal political conflict between two historically rivaled parties. In the past year,…
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On October 4th, the city of Osaka in Japan cut ties with its sister-city, San Francisco due to the controversy surrounding a statue depicting three comfort women from China, Korea, and the Philippines. The statue is called "Women's Column…
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The cold-blooded killing of the journalist Khashoggi, however gruesome, pales compared to the brutality and gross human rights violations Saudi Arabia is committing in Yemen. The Saudis are deliberately preventing food and medicine from…
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The United States has found itself in a state of shock and horror over the Trump administration’s recent immigration policies. Within this, the greatest source of outrage has arisen in response to the separation of families and the…
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After racist gunman Robert Bowers murdered 11 people and wounded six more at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue Saturday morning, US President Donald Trump called the shooting “a wicked act of mass murder” and said he felt obligated to…
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