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Europe

A New Brand Of Politics?

In an expletive-spattered, 4,500 word opus as guest editor for the New Statesman, and a clash with Jeremy Paxman on BBC’s Newsnight, British comedian Russell Brand declared the political system irreparably broken, and in the ...
by Naomi Hanna
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Africa

The Struggle Of Security And Development In Somalia

In early October, a Somali online newspaper, Hiraan Online, interviewed Hiba Nura, a popular Somali singer who left the country for nearly 22 years to live abroad when the Somali Civil War ensued. Nura, who came back to Somal...
by Likhitha Palaypu
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The Dubious Arrests And Mistreatment Of Basque Political Activists

Early in November, the European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights (ELDH) and the European Democratic Lawyers (EDL), published their “Motion regarding the situation of Lawyers and Human Rights defende...
by Sanne Jehoul
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Asia

WATCH: Google Shows Us How To Unite India And Pakistan In Just Three Minutes

For years, tensions between India and Pakistan have remained hostile. It seems that the people of both countries have entirely erased from their memories a time when they were one – no boundaries, no conflicts, just one c...
by Priyanka Mogul
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Europe
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Somebody Needs To Tell Silvio It’s Time To Go Home

On Saturday November 16th former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi relaunched Forza Italia (Come on Italy), the centre-right party that brought him to power in 1994. The announcement was made during a national convention...
by Mauro Anastasio
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Africa
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How Democracy And Instability In MENA Revealed A Western Existential Crisis

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and democracy are having a hard time making sense with one another. The West has found itself in a sort of existential crisis; the chaos that has erupted in MENA in the search for ...
by Esma Mneina
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Asia

What’s The Modi Operandi? Potential Indo-Pakistan Relations After The Election

Two related events will come to dominate Indian politics in the coming general election year, and both lead to the same questions about India’s relationship with her northern neighbour and sister state, Pakistan. On February ...
by Christopher Cannell
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Health

The Insane Politics Of Mental Health

Politicians are paying more attention to the issues of mental health but there is a long way to go before it is taken as seriously as physical health. One in four people will experience a mental health problem at some point in ...
by Shehrazade Zafar-Arif
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Argentina

Argentina vs. Argentina

On October 29th the Argentine Supreme Court ruled that Grupo Clarín, Argentina’s biggest media conglomerate, would have to comply with the 2009 Audio-visual Media Law, concluding a dispute that began four years earlier. Whi...
by Rose Butters
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