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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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July 13, 2015
Asia
What to Expect From Myanmar’s Elections
Last week, Myanmar announced that its much-anticipated elections, the first free national election in twenty-five years, would be held on November 8 of this year. With the election’s date finally set…
February 7, 2011
Indonesia
Is Egypt the Next Indonesia?
An opposition supporter flashes the victory sign as he holds an Egyptian flag atop a lamp post near a mosque in Tahrir Square in Cairo February 7, 2011. (Yannis Behrakis/Courtesy Reuters) As the cha…
May 1, 2015
Myanmar
Myanmar’s Election Day May Be Only a Step Toward Democracy
In the end of October, Myanmar will hold what will be probably its first truly free national election in twenty-five years. Several reports released this week on the upcoming election suggest that, f…
June 6, 2018
Local and Traditional Leadership
Large Jailbreak in Nigeria, Culprits Currently Unknown
Over two hundred inmates reportedly escaped the central-Nigerian prison, of whom government sources say thirty have been recaptured.
April 15, 2011
Weekend Reading
People buy sweets at Souk al-Hamidieh in Damascus' old downtown (Khaled Al Hariri/Courtesy Reuters) Bikya Masr reports on the the rebirth of Egypt’s formerly ruling party, now called the New Na…
