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Asia

South Korea: Shooting too far?

Since March 2012, South Korea has been negotiating with the US to extend the range of its ballistic missiles to 1000km in order to cover the whole Korean peninsula. The current agreement from 1979 limits South Korea’s ballist...
by Yoonah Je
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Europe

Pro-austerity VVD’s victory in Dutch elections hides the real winners of last night’s poll – a social democratic Europe

With over 96% of votes counted, the result of yesterday’s Dutch election sees Mark Rutte, leader of the right-wing Liberals (VVD), set to stay as Prime Minister. But the closely fought election left his party with only two mo...
by Gareth Lewis
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Africa

No go Zone: Could Retirement Armnesty Law inspire Presidential Retirement in Africa?

In the wake of the popular walk to work protests that affected Kampala until a few months ago, one thing stood out: the opposition politicians and their faithfuls wanted to send a message to the regime of President Museveni an...
by Ivan Atuyambe
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Latin America

A Real War on Drugs – Mexico’s Narcotics Conflict

For those of us fortunate to live in the developed world it is perhaps easy to sneer at the rhetorical flourish often used by American and Western leaders to describe their diplomatic and practical support for the prohibition o...
by Harry Booty
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USA

Daily News Roundup – 16 July 2012

Europe Athletes arriving in London for Olympics With 11 days to go until the Olympic Games are to start, thousands of athletes and officials have begun arriving at London’s Heathrow airport, which is expecting its busiest day...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Asia

Japan: Between a Rock and a Hard Place

On June 23rd, 20,000 Japanese citizens staged a mass protest against Prime Minister Noda’s decision to restart two nuclear power plants. The on-going debate regarding the use of nuclear power has received a very negative rece...
by Yoonah Je
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Egypt

The Reality of Egypt’s Revolution: Democracy is a Process

Last month’s election results in Egypt caused widespread frustration. It has already been sixteen months since Mubarak stepped down, they have failed to establish a constitution, justice has not been sufficiently served and v...
by Nadine Tewfik-Saad
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Asia

Assessing Kim Jong-un’s First Six Months

It has been just over six months since Kim Jong-un took the helm of the world’s most volatile nuclear power. It’s time to take a look at how the world’s youngest head of state has fared on the job so far. A Remarkably Smo...
by Jenghiz von Streng
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Daily News Roundup – 20 July 2012

  Europe Rubber bullets fired in Spanish anti-austerity protest A day of nationwide protests against spending cuts in Spain has ended in violence, with police firing rubber bullets at protesters in Madrid.  Seven people w...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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