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Say goodbye to the weirdest border dispute in the world
Just after midnight Saturday, one of the most perplexing border disputes in the world officially ended. India and Bangladesh began the exchange of over 160 enclaves – small areas of sovereignty completely surrounded on all sides by another country – and in so doing ended a dispute that has lasted almost 70 years.
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Kim Jong Un Statesman Award: North Korea Leader To Be Recognized As Anti-Imperialist Champion
Kim Jong Un isn't exactly viewed as the world's greatest leader by many in the West. However, in his own country, he has demanded god-like status, claiming his family's dynasty has led the country to glory. Now an Indonesian organization has decided to give the reclusive and divisive North Korean leader an award designated for the world's greatest statesmen and peace builders. The Bali-based Sukarno Center has in the past presented the prestigious award to the likes of...
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Saudi Arabia Flexing its Muscles in Middle East
Saudi Arabia has shed its laissez-faire attitude to Middle Eastern affairs in favour of a tougher, more assertive approach.
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Two Versions of Mao’s China: History Retouched as Propaganda · Global Voices
A collage of historical photos showing two versions of Chinese history during the Mao's era (1949-1976) .
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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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A North Korean Defector's Regret
SEOUL, South Korea — Since the late 1990s, some 28,000 North Koreans have fled to South Korea. Only one, as far as anyone knows, has ever asked to go back.
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Noam Chomsky: How America's Way of Thinking About the World Naturally Produces Human Catastrophes
The scholar talks about the seemingly innocuous elements of our socialization that promote one-world view over another.
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Elizabeth Warren is still the key for Democrats
Sanders by himself is not enough. He needs Warren.
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Find which canadian party your views align with using the Vote Compass
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Malaysia's Mahathir calls for 'people power' movement to topple PM
By Trinna Leong and Al-Zaquan Amer Hamzah
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Defector: Kim Jong Un's days are numbered
He's a fairly young man, wearing an ill-fitting suit. His thin neck is pronounced, giving way to an equally thin face and frame. He's a defector from North Korea.
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Israel's water miracle that wasn't
Covering up a crime in plain sight: The dual function of Israel's water industry. Diverting Palestinian water to feed Israel's orchards.
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The Great Reformer
Olof Palme’s career illustrates the Swedish model’s great successes — and crippling weaknesses.
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Malcolm Turnbull overthrows Tony Abbott to become prime minister of Australia
Liberal MPs have determined who their leader will be following a divisive ballot at Parliament House in Canberra.
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16th September 1932 - Gandhi begins fast in protest of caste separation
In his cell at Yerovda Jail near Bombay, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest of the British government’s decision to separate India’s electoral system by caste.
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A Liberal tipping point in Canada?
For much of this 78-day campaign season, the three parties - the incumbent Conservatives and the left-centre Liberals and New Democratic Party - have effectively been tied in the polls, all at around 30%.
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Swiss Anti-Immigration Party Wins Big in Elections
A nationalist party campaigning on fears about mass migration to Europe appeared set Sunday to become the big winner in Swiss legislative elections, according to projections, continuing a shift to the political right for Switzerland. The anti-immigration Swiss People’s Party appeared set to gain 11 seats and the pro-business Free Democratic Party three in the lower house of Parliament, the National Council, according to the latest figures from RTS, a state-backed broadcaster.
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America is changing its mind on Israel: How Netanyahu is alienating his most essential ally
The most recent flare-up in the Middle East reveals America's shifting political fault lines
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31st October 1984 - The prime minister of India is assassinated
Indira Gandhi, the prime minister of India, is assassinated in New Delhi by two of her own bodyguards. Beant Singh and Satwant Singh, both Sikhs, emptied their guns into Gandhi as she walked to her office from an adjoining bungalow.
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Chris Hedges: TPP Is the Most Brazen Corporate Power Grab in American History
The release Thursday of the 5,544-page text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership—a trade and investment agreement involving 12 countries comprising nearly 40 percent of global output—confirms what even its most apocalyptic critics feared. “The TPP, along with the WTO [World Trade Organization] and NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement], is the most brazen corporate power grab in American history,” Ralph Nader told me when I reached him by...
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