The Drake Framework The grounding of aircraft across the United States on 13 November 2026 provides an important occasion to examine the vulnerability of international civil aviation through an application of Frank
INTRODUCTION The Global South as a critical concept has three primary definitions. First, it has traditionally been used within intergovernmental development organizations –– primarily those that originated in the Movement Movement ––
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Introduction Throughout history minorities have faced with discrimination discriminations, of different forms, based on language, clans, tribes, and most importantly religion. Intra-religion conflicts have been known throughout history. Famous are the conflicts
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From 9 to 15 October, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank held their annual joint meeting in Marrakech (Morocco). The last time that these two Bretton Woods institutions met on African soil
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“Do not use our death and our pain to bring the death and pain of other people and other families…” Israeli peace activist Noy Katsman (eulogy for his brother Hayim Katsman murdered
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This week, from 14–18 October, the Dilemmas of Humanity conference brought together political leaders, activists, and organic intellectuals from around the world to discuss the central problems facing humanity today and strengthen proposals to
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Absolutely nothing can justify any form of violence, whether it’s physical or psychological. Paradoxically, violence has been a tool used not just by humans, but by all living beings throughout history to
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Adherence to the UN Charter principles in their entirety and interconnection underwrite international peace and stability By Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister The recently held general political discussion during the 78th session
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Scourge of global religious fundamentalism: An expression of ‘amazement – and perhaps a little hope’
To fill a world with religion, or religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used. – Richard Dawkins, ‘Science
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Why were businesses from China, Ukraine, Romania, Kazakhstan, and Russia so generous to Hunter Biden and the web of companies he and his Uncle Jim Biden were associated with during a period
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HAS BIPOLARITY REPLACED MULTIPOLARITY? The world appears to be preoccupied with the loss of multipolarity and the division of bipolarity between the “limitless” friendship of Russia and China. This bipolarity, some critics
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Should the Ukraine war stretch into the future much further, the dynamics of any settlement, if there is one, will be much different from what it would be if a settlement were
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A major new technology known as Gene Editing has gained significant attention in recent months. Its advocates claim it will revolutionize everything from agriculture production to disease treatment. None other than Bill
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Lea Ypi’s Free: Coming of Age at the End of History has met with a hostile reception in her home country of Albania, and it is easy to see why. Her self-description as a
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COUNTRIES OF SOUTH ASIA South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethnic-cultural terms. As commonly conceptualized South Asia consists of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives,
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by Special Correspondent The shocking reality concealed beneath the surface of the Easter Sunday 2019 attacks, which claimed the lives of nearly 270 innocent people in churches and hotels, has been obscured
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