Benyamin Netanyahu holding up a piece of a shot down drone which supposedly stems from Iran during the 54th Munich Security Conference. Picture by Lennart Preiss/DPA/PA Images. All rights reserved.Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu addressed the Munich Security Conference on 18 February 2018. Attacking Iran during his speech, he brandished what he claimed was a …
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“It’s OK. I’m right here with you.” Those were the words Diamond Reynolds’ 4-year-old daughter spoke as she tried to comfort her mother after her mother’s boyfriend, Philando Castile, was shot several times by a St. Anthony, Minnesota, police officer while sitting in his car. Sadly, Castile would become the second of three black men to die …
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Women hold placards (with 3 languages, Turkish, Kurdish and Armenian) reading "stop the weapons", "Women want peace" and "we don't want any war in Sur-Cizre-Silopi", during a march on Istiklal avenue in Istanbul, Turkey, to mark International Women's Day on March 8, 2016. Depo Photos/ Press Association. All rights reserved.The title is not mine. It …
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How do you prevent a disease that gets harder to treat the more you fight it? That’s the dilemma malaria researchers have faced for decades. Drugs developed in the middle of the 1900s proved effective — until the disease became resistant. But as malaria came roaring back in the 21st century, doctors and epidemiologists had …
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The Iraqi army recaptured Mosul's historical al-Nuri mosque and its leaning minaret on June 29, 2017. Cheng Shuaipeng/Xinhua News Agency/Press Association. All rights reserved. The territorial defeat of the Islamic State (IS) in Mosul is a significant moment for Iraq, a country that has come a long way since IS was rapidly gaining territory with …
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After weeks of negotiation, Harvard University recently agreed to provide the Department of Justice access to its admissions files. The department is reopening a complaint by 63 Asian-American groups that Harvard discriminates against Asian-American applicants. The complaint was previously dismissed under the Obama administration. Many worry that government lawyers plan to use the case to …
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24 June: students of School No. 2 walk to the central Peace Square for prom celebrations in Shchastya, Luhansk area. (c) Anastasia Vlasova. All rights reserved.On a hot June day, dressed in ball gowns and suits, the eleventh class from Shchastya’s School No. 2 set off towards the centre of town, some 15 minutes drive …
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Click:star tracker From Topanga to Tanzania, holistic medicine can be popular, but it has its limits. That’s why doctors working on global health are excited about a simple new way to encourage pregnant women in rural Africa to seek prenatal care. While it might be convenient and commonplace to skip visits and rely on local …
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Once in a while, life provides us with the kind of dramatic moral dilemma that even the most imaginative ethics textbook writer couldn’t think up. My community — the University of Florida and the city of Gainesville — faced a dangerous and complicated series of dilemmas as a result of a visit from white supremacist …
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Mass shooting leaves 14 dead in San Bernardino, California, December 2, 2015. Demotix/Eric Rosenwald. All right reserved. In the three years since the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary and the subsequent failure to reform the hollow gun laws of the United States, we have been forced to bear witness to mass shootings at more schools, …
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