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Daily News Roundup – 7 August 2012

  Europe Standard Chartered shares crash after allegations of laundering with Iran Shares in Standard Chartered have fallen 15% in early London trade this morning despite the bank’s denial that it illegally “schemed”...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Human Rights

What Assange did for Climate Change

With all eyes on the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and the UK government’s looming (possible) extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, activists await the next move. Using the Internet, Julian Assange lit the match th...
by Yara Al Wazir
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Daily News Roundup – 26 September 2012

  Europe New Archbishop of Canterbury to be chosen Church officials are preparing for a three-day meeting to decide who will be the new Archbishop of Canterbury, with current Archbishop Dr Rowan Williams to step down in De...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Sport

EURO 2012 UPDATE: Nationalist Riots

Nationalism and footballing sympathies came to a head in Warsaw on Tuesday prior to the second leg of the EURO 2012 group stages, in a match between historical and political rivals Russia and Poland in their first meeting since...
by Colin Busby
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North America

Bringing Stability Back to Jamaica’s Finances

Fiscal reform is never fun, even less so when it comes as an eleventh-hour necessity. For Caribbean states especially, “fiscal reform” is hissed in the public sector as the foulest Jamaican bad word. Nowhere does this ri...
by Donovon Kellyman
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Romania

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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Taking Aid Outside of Politics

[twitter style=”horizontal” source=”@intlpolitical” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button”] The Labour Party is now ramping up a campaign, backed by the Private Members Bill, to leg...
by Damien Dacey
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Daily news Roundup – 5 October 2012

North Africa & Middle East UN Security Council condemn Syrian aggression The UN Security Council has condemned the Syria attack on a Turkish town that killed three children and two women. The attack warranted Turkish Parlia...
by Tom Dunbar
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North America

Is Bipartisanship Obsolete in the United States?

As a proponent of the democratic system at work, it is delightful to see Americans engaged in their civil duty to vote.  However, with the United States’ 2012 presidential elections quickly approaching, the overall tone with...
by Constance Trower
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