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Last Saturday in Seoul, three East Asian nations’ (Korea, China, Japan) foreign ministers agreed to hold summit at ‘the earliest convenient time’, marking a thaw in relations that had been chilled by lingering disputes over wartime…
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3.5 million people experience homelessness at some point in a year in the United States: on a given night in January 2013, there were 610,042 homeless individuals. On average, a homeless person will remain so for eight months. The U.S.…
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70 years ago, the Pacific side of the Second World War officially ended with Japan’s surrender after the landing of two atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan’s defeat marked Korea’s liberation from 35 years of Japan’s colonization.…
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The post-Cold War era is rife with examples of insurgencies and intrastate conflicts that blur the lines between military forces, militias, rebel groups, guerrillas, and civilians, thoroughly complicating the work of both political…
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On March 23rd, in honour of International Women’s Month, McGill Women in House hosted a speaker panel attended by the Hon. Irwin Cotler and President of the Quebec Aboriginal Peoples’ Commission (APC), Tanya Lalonde. Together, they…
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Alibaba Group's e-commerce subsidiary Taobao, or “treasure hunt” in Chinese, has become increasingly popular and successful over the past two years. In late 2013, there were only 15,000 active merchants on the Taobao site,…
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In the second week of March, the International Relations Students' Association of McGill (IRSAM) sent a delegation to the 59th Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. IRSAM is one of the two…
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North Korea’s economy is projected to grow by 7% this year, one of the highest rates around the world . For the most part, this is because it will be having an excellent harvest year. However, there are signs that North Korea is…
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El día que llegué a Buenos Aires para empezar mi intercambio, el 18 de enero, el fiscal argentino, Alberto Nisman, fue encontrado muerto en su departamento. Siendo estudiante de ciencias políticas, ya esperaba un cuatrimestre muy…
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Syria will soon enter the fourth year of an internal conflict that has been raging since unrest began in March 2011 within the context of the Arab Spring. According to the United Nations (UN) approximately 220.000 Syrians have died so far…
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