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General elections with global repercussions
23 Oct 2015
On 19 October Canadians chose Justin Trudeau to be their new prime minister as Liberals returned to power. A Liberal government will change Canadian politics and be felt on the world stage as Canada ends its…
Lebanon
23 Oct 2015
Embroiled this year in mounting discontent, Lebanon’s protesting population has called for government replacement due to ‘political garbage’. At least 1.5 million refugees from war-ravaged countries like Syria constitute nearly 25% of the population. They have…
Another wave of Syrian refugees have started their hazardous journey to safety as forces loyal to President al-Assad moved in on Aleppo last Friday, backed by Russian warplanes, Iranian ground troops and militia fighters. An estimated…
Recently twenty Palestinian and Israeli women met in a small village in the north of Israel. This village is not well known - there is not even a sign from the main road pointing in its…
Colombia: A possibility of peace
16 Oct 2015
The longest running conflict in the Americas may now have a chance of peace. Historic progress was made recently as Colombia's president and the leader of the FARC rebel group set a six-month deadline to sign…
The United States is sending 300 troops along with surveillance drones to Cameroon to bolster a West African effort to counter the Nigerian militant Islamist group, Boko Haram. An advance force of 90 military personnel began…