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Gaza still in ruins, a year after the war
The anniversary on Wednesday of last summer's war comes as the besieged territory struggles to rebuild its infrastructure, and tens of thousands of its people struggle to access basic amenities. Al Jazeera spoke to Palestinians who said little was being done to help them recover and go on with their lives.
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Turkey v Islamic State v the Kurds: What's going on?
What lies behind Turkey's decision to bomb the Kurds and Islamic State - while pushing for a 'buffer zone' in Syria? The BBC's Neil Arun explains.
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TIL autor Joel Garreau divided North America into 9 economically and culturally distinct regions
The Nine Nations of North America is a book written in 1981 by Joel Garreau. In it, Garreau suggests that North America can be divided into nine nations, which have distinctive economic and cultural features. He also argues that conventional national and state borders are largely artificial and irrelevant, and that his "nations" provide a more accurate way of understanding the true nature of North American society.
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The Failure of Multiculturalism
Multicultural policies accept that societies are diverse, yet they implicitly assume that such diversity ends at the edges of minority communities. By forcing people into ethnic and cultural boxes, they help create the very divisions they were meant to manage.
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Dividing the Arctic Has Turned into a Very Diplomatic Clusterf*ck
A bureaucratic, science-based clusterf*ck.
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Chinese official on GOP’s anti-China rhetoric: ‘Americans nervous to prove they’re not in decline’
Beijing views anti-China rhetoric as election pandering and a sign that the United States is worried about its role in the world.
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The Mystery of ISIS
Nothing since the triumph of the Vandals in Roman North Africa has seemed so sudden, incomprehensible, and difficult to reverse as the rise of ISIS.
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Nationality in the cloud: US clashes with Microsoft over seizing data from abroad
Microsoft and the US government are facing off in the second circuit court of appeals over the tech giant’s continuing refusal to hand over emails related to a narcotics case from a Hotmail account hosted in Ireland in 2013. Microsoft argues that its data should be protected by the laws of the land where its servers are located – a decision that will have major ramifications for cloud computing no matter which way it goes.
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Japan to allow military role overseas in historic move
Japan's parliament votes to allow the military to fight overseas for the first time since the end of World War Two.
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Who is fighting whom in Syria
The Syrian civil war, now in its fifth year, involves multiple countries with overlapping and at times conflicting agendas. Competing visions of how to manage the conflict, which has led to a major global refugee crisis as well as the rise of the Islamic State, dominated discussions at the United Nations General Assembly this week. But despite days of meetings and diplomatic maneuvering, the crisis has only intensified. Here is where some of the main foreign actors stand.
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Chinese Colonel’s hard-line views seep into the mainstream
One cloudless morning last month, Col. Liu Mingfu watched on his home television as tanks, troop carriers and ballistic missiles rolled past a waving President Xi Jinping in Tiananmen Square. The Communist Party was putting on a military parade, billed as one of the largest in party history, to commemorate the defeat of Japan seven decades earlier.
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TPP trade deal: seven things you need to know
The US, Japan and 10 other Pacific Rim economies, representing some 40 per cent of the global economy, were nearing an agreement on Monday on what would be the biggest trade deal signed anywhere in two decades. Here are seven things worth knowing
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At U.N., China uses intimidation tactics to silence its critics
Beijing is blunting scrutiny of its rights record at the venue created to protect victims of state repression – the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. Its success is evidence of China’s growing ability to stifle opposition abroad.
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The Final Leaked TPP Text is All That We Feared
Today's release by Wikileaks of what is believed to be the current and essentially final version of the intellectual property (IP) chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) confirms our worst fears about the agreement, and dashes the few hopes that we held out that its most onerous provisions wouldn't survive to the end of the negotiations.
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Snowball-Chucking, Science-Hating Senator May Crash Paris Climate Talks
James Inhofe is packing a cooler full of snowballs for Paris to stop the world from going green.
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The Caliph at the gates of Vienna
History has a jolly habit of repeating itself as surrealist farce. Is it 1683 all over again, with the Ottoman Empire laying siege to Vienna just to be defeated by the “infidels” at the last minute? By Pepe Escobar.
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Russia and the Curse of Geography
Want to understand why Putin does what he does? Look at a map. By Tim Marshall.
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Catalan leader struggles to keep his job
Artur Mas fails to convince junior partner to back him. By Hans von der Burchard.
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Radio War Nerd Special Episode: Paris Terror Attacks
The War Nerd and host Mark Ames recorded a special free episode of Radio War Nerd, their subscriber-supported podcast show, to cover the recent Paris attacks...
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Mali’s Tangled Mix of Jihad and Civil War
Making sense of Friday’s hotel siege in Bamako won’t be simple. By David A. Graham.
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