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By awarding the 2020 Nobel peace prize to the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), the Nobel committee said that it wanted to “turn the eyes of…
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Fear, dissent, and undervalued or devaluation of what French philosopher called – domestic social contract between Hong Kong citizens and mainland Chinese government appears to be…
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Protest and journalism are criminal acts, Parliament is irrelevant, duties supersede rights, and profanity flows from the ordinary. On October 8, Justice Sanjay Dhar of the…
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Twenty-seven years ago, the late, great, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was confirmed to her seat on the Supreme Court by a 96-3 Senate vote. Whichever president ends…
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I distinctly remember the heat wave that hit Europe in the summer of 2003. I had been spending several weeks every summer doing research in France,…
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As the pandemic continues to spread throughout the world, many countries seem to have given up the fight against COVID-19 and are now waiting for a…
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Donald Trump accuses his rival of being soft on China. If a crisis erupted over Taiwan he is not above exploiting it electorally How does Joe…
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Despite a rather glowing report from the WEF, a sense of impunity has put women in the country more at risk When Myanmar in 2017 launched…
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Spanish politics is as destructive as the coronavirus. There will one day be a vaccine against the latter, but there seems to be no remedy for…
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It finally happened on a Saturday. On September 12 2020, as the world was taking a day off, another round of peace negotiations had just been…
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The US president’s actions have exacerbated the pandemic that has killed more than 200,000 people in the United States, rolled back environmental and public-health regulations and…
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Basic models for COVID-19 suggest herd immunity is achieved when 60% of people are immune. This is because in a population where everyone is susceptible to…
