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For those who don’t know, the vice presidential debate will air this Tuesday, October 4 at 9:00 p.m. EST, and will be moderated by CBSN anchor and correspondent Elaine Quijano. While it won’t feature the main stars of this presidential election, it will showcase the two men who are set up for second in command. This upcoming …
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This week, Donald Trump issued sweeping executive orders affecting immigrants and refugees and defining expansively the purported “criminal aliens” that he intends to target. Strikingly, he has eliminated old enforcement priorities, ensuring that discretion will be exercised by agents with little guidance from the executive order beyond sweeping anti-immigrant exhortations. During his campaign, he stated …
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Names can sometimes obscure instead of illuminate. Refugee, child-laborer, and child-bride are all names Sonita Alizadeh—an activist who shares her story through rap—has been called at one point. But they do not define her. What does is her use of an artistic medium to bring voice to her oppression. Listen to her share her story of hope, grit, …
When the Kenyan presidential elections confirmed a second term for the now former President Mwai Kibaki in December 2007, violence and rioting engulfed the country. Accusations of electoral manipulation led to targeted ethnic violence, reaching a horrific peak when 50 people—including women and children—were burned alive after seeking refuge inside a church in the western …
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When Robert Marchand was born in 1911, the gas-powered automobile was a mere 10 years old. Just six years before in 1905, Albert Einstein changed the world with his theory of special relativity. Now it’s Marchand changing the world, setting a world record for the 105-plus category (a designation created just for him) by cycling 22.547 …
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There have been many new twists in the chain of Middle Eastern upheavals in the last year — from the rise of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to the escalation of civil war in Yemen — but Russia has been only marginally involved in most high-intensity political manoeuvring in the region, only making a splash with the …
The flag of Kurdistan, the national flag of the Kurdish people. Jens Kalaene/DPA. All rights reserved.In early December 2016, the burning of a Kurdish flag in the northern Syrian town of Amuda revealed the fault-lines of intra-Kurdish power relations. The flag was allegedly burned by supporters of the ruling Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), whose …
In March and April 1985, the people of Sudan took to the streets revolting against Nimeiry’s regime. One of the main demands of the intifada was the abolishment of what became known as the "September 1983 laws", a criminal system based on Sharia. Hundreds had been arbitrary killed, tortured and jailed as a result of these laws. …
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on his first European trip, November 2014. Demotix/ Paolo Gargini. All rights reserved.The difficult debate about how to deal with Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and his military regime was given a literal illustration in early June 2015, when within a matter of days President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi first shook German …
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Click:室內設計 2017 could be the year of the great American pot bonanza – even for those who invest but don’t partake. With the latest round of legalizations stretching pot-friendly zones up and down the coasts, the national weed market could leap up to $21 billion by the year 2020, if New Frontier Data – now …
