Humanity
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Wednesday, 23 Jun, 2010
Piracy off the coast of Somalia has become a major issue. Over 250 attacks on bulk carriers, oil tankers, fishing vessels and other ships have taken place since a spike in piracy began in 2007. At least 60 of these attacks have resulted in successful seizures. Tens of millions of dollars have been paid in ransom to pirate groups. The dangers associated to crossing the Gulf of Aden, nicknamed “Pirate Alley,” have increased premium costs for ship owners. The gulf is one of the major trade rou...
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Monday, 14 Jun, 2010
Pakistan’s long, national social networking nightmare has finally drawn to a close. At the end of May, the country decided to re-open access to Facebook to its citizens, effectively ending a nearly two-week standoff between Pakistani leaders and the world’s most popular online social network. The highly publicized spat revolved around a contentious Facebook page encouraging users to submit drawings of the Prophet Mohammed, an act considered sacrilegious among Muslims. When the page titled ...
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Xiuxiu L. is a 27-year-old woman from China. When she was 17, she was arrested because her father was accused of selling drugs. She was held in a police station for a week, and wa...
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Thursday, 3 Jun, 2010
The recent Scud missile row and the renewal of economic sanctions against Syria have cast doubt on the possibility of a rapprochement between the US and Syria. Republican senators...
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Monday, 17 May, 2010
Environmental conservation efforts to protect natural habitat tend to receive the greatest attention when they relate to natural habitats that have immense biodiversity and that t...
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Thursday, 6 May, 2010
The dramatic shooting that took place outside a church in Nag Hammadi, a village in rural Upper Egypt, on 6 January briefly shone a spotlight on Egypt’s problem with communal vi...
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Thursday, 29 Apr, 2010
The Middle East is nearing a strategic crossroads: Within the next 18 months or so the decisions taken by different actors will affect issues far beyond the area itself; and ti...
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Thursday, 22 Apr, 2010
On the 2 of January 2010 US President Barack Obama made a statement that sounded eerily like George W. Bush’s in both tone and content. Obama, in his weekly address from the Whi...
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Monday, 12 Apr, 2010
The rise of Asia has helped establish the generally accepted proposition that we are witnessing a shift of power from West to East—or if we also consider Latin America—from No...
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Tuesday, 6 Apr, 2010
For a country that takes great care to promote a positive image abroad, Jordan has recently been subjected to unusually harsh criticism from Western NGOs. In February, Human Right...
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