A woman wearing a blood spattered wedding dress led protestors on a march through Mozambique’s capital to condemn a colonial-era law allowing rapists to go unpunished if they marry their victim for a minimum of […]
A dissident blogger was sentenced to 15 months in prison for writing critical posts about the Vietnamese government. Pham Viet Dao was found guilty of posting articles critical of senior government officials in a manner […]
As yesterday’s top secret ceremony brought Canada’s mission in Afghanistan to a close, mixed feelings are surfacing about the military occupation. CBC says media were not allowed to report on the ceremony for security reasons, which are still […]
ANALYSIS Since 2001, Canada’s role in Afghanistan has changed. Canada originally entered the war to help the United States fight the Taliban and find Osama Bin Laden, according to CBC News. But in 2009 the […]
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February marks the third year of Syria’s civil war. It’s a conflict that has embattled the country and divided the region, and yet the rest of the world seems to have fallen out of touch […]
The Crimean parliament voted unanimously to join the Russian Federation and will hold a referendum on the issue March 16 in another escalation of the crisis in Ukraine. Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk has rejected the […]
ANALYSIS The scenario in Crimea has already happened in world history. March 1938. Austria. The events of those days will go down in history as the Anschluss of Austria– German for union or political annexation. […]
A gun battle broke out on the streets of Bangui as Christian militiamen attempted to prevent Muslims from escaping ongoing violence in the Central African Republic. The assault began as a troop of Chadian soldiers– […]
PLATO, a space-based observatory designed to search for planets orbiting stars, is the European Space Agency’s newest mission. “Its discoveries will help to place our own Solar System’s architecture in the context of other planetary […]
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