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Asia

Demo-crazy: Where Does it Belong?

Democracy is a term that has become increasingly convoluted over time. It is a word that many people respect, but only a handful understands its true essence. What is democracy? Is it relative or universal? It certainly comes i...
by Hasan Rizvi
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Africa

This is not Islam

We in the West can all too easily believe that every Muslim wishes to kill in the name of religion. The protests that have swept across the Muslim world over the past several days are nothing to do with the inflammatory anti-Is...
by Gareth Lewis
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Daily News Roundup – 9 July 2012

Europe 8.9% drop in UK university applications University applications from UK students for courses starting in the autumn have fallen by 8.9% on last year, according to figures from the universities and colleges admissions ser...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Human Rights

The Land of the Free?

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Thu...
by David Bartlett
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Africa

A New Dawn for a New Libya

It has been 9 months now since Colonel Gaddafi was killed as he attempted to escape the wrath of the people he had oppressed for generations. Since then that wrath has slowly transformed to a yearning for the rule of law, democ...
by Max Kuhnke
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North America

America Pulls Up the Draw-Bridge

Syria, Iran, Israel please form an orderly queue. The United States is out for lunch, closed for refurbishment, putting you on hold.  OK, OK I’ll stop with the metaphors. Reading through any world news of late, be it conflic...
by Anna Burt
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Europe

Romania: observing modern feudalism. Part one: the nobility

In modern Europe, we believe that feudal practices have been entirely eradicated and that modern democratic republican regimes are the sole source of state authority. By Republic, we refer to a system of government that is a pu...
by Tiberiu Dodan
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DAILY NEWS ROUNDUP – AUGUST 30 2012

Africa and Middle East Syria delegate walks out of Summit Syria’s delegate has walked out of a Non-aligned Movement summit after comments made by Egypt’s incumbent President, Mohammad Mursi. During the summit Mr Mursi told ...
by Tom Dunbar
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Israel

Who Killed Arafat?

[twitter style=”horizontal” source=”intlpolitical” float=”left”][fbshare type=”button” float=”left”] Eight years after the death of the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafa...
by Nadim Souss
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