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Film and Climate Change – the formula for a revolution?

Communicating climate change has long been a source of depression for many activists; from human stories that are reduced to numbers and statistics, to polar bears becoming the face of every campaign, the absence of those most ...
by Yara Al Wazir
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Daily News Roundup – 5 September 2012

  Europe Heathrow row escalates following British cabinet reshuffle London Mayor Boris Johnson has called for the British Government to permanently rule out building a third runway at Heathrow airport, as ministers gave as...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Daily News Roundup – 18 July 2012

  Europe Germany ordered to boosts benefits to asylum seekers Germany’s Constitutional Court has ordered the country’s government to pay a 50% rise in benefits to asylum seekers, who have for two decades received less ...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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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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DAILY NEWS ROUNDUP – 9 AUGUST 2012

 North America US begins Agent Orange clean up  The United States (US) has begun the cleaning up of Agent Orange contamination in one of Vietnam’s region. It is the first time the US has made such a move since the end o...
by Tom Dunbar
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Is Friendly synonymous with sustainable?

Surviving in the brutal world of business is tough. Keeping your business afloat in the current economic situation is tougher. Business isn’t about making friends, fighting enemies, or saving the world – business is about m...
by Yara Al Wazir
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Is More Democracy Always the Best Option?

At the outset of the Arab Spring, there were some protests in Jordan, calling for an elected prime minister. But in a country whose monarch is actually doing a great job of working in the interest of his people, has been an act...
by Nadine Tewfik-Saad
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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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Greece-Germany: Politics of EURO 2012 Quarter Final

Once the Euro 2012 quarterfinal between Greece and Germany had been set an article was posted on UEFA’s website with the cruelly ironic headline, “Greece Hope to Profit from German Lessons”.  As if the European community...
by Colin Busby
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