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Trump 2.0 - The Plan for the Next Four Years
'Trump is the first convicted felon in U.S. history to assume the presidency, vowing sweeping changes from immigration crackdown to the elimination of the Department of Education'
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Lebanon’s Grassroots Solidarity in the Face of State and Foreign Abandonment
'100 years of history and fond memories erased forever. The heartache impeded on us has reached our grandparents' cemeteries, which were not spared from the shelling.'
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The Prominent anti-Putin activist Aleksei Navalny died a month before elections
By Ave Bozic, BA Politics and Korean Former Russian opposition leader and Anti-Putin activist, Aleksei Navalny, passed away in prison on February 16th at age 47. Navalny, the most prominent and successful opponent of current president Vladimir Putin and founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), has died a
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Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to his charges “This is just a way of hurting me in the election," Trump said.
By Kristi Greenwood, BA Japanese Former US president Donald Trump is facing four separate court cases encompassing 91 charges, denying all. In January, Trump was found responsible for $83 million in damages for defamation of author E. Jean Caroll from last year, when he was found liable in a separate
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The Case of Bishop Christopher Sanders - An Unsettling Normality within the Roman Catholic Church
By Matthew McMahon – BSc Politics, Philosophy and Economics Source: New York Times opinion piece titled ‘The Scandal in the Catholic Church’. Written by Patrick Chappatte, 2018. In February 2024, Bishop Christopher Sanders was finally arrested and charged with 19 offences, including rape, indecent assault and indecency in dealing with a
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Missing Convicts Wreak Havoc on Indian Supreme Court Reputation
By Aditya Mishra, BA/BSc Social Science, Arts and Humanities with Foundation Year Trigger warning: Mentions of sexual assault and rape “It is reported that the Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who himself has a criminal history, had personally played a role in the release of two of those convicts.
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Niger Coup: Tentative Hope
By Joe Dredge-Fenwick, MA Anthropology of Food and Intensive Japanese ‘The sense of colonial rejection does seem palpable. Whether or not the so-called “overdue revolutions” do bring needed radical change is yet to be seen. For now we can only hold tentative hope for the realisation of socio-
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No More Dog Meat In South Korea
By Maryam Mohammed, BA Korean and Politics As of the 9th January, the South Korean parliament officially put forth legislation banning all trade of dog meat. The decision was a highly anticipated one since the bill was proposed on 17th November. However, the topic of banning dog meat has been
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International Elections 2024: Impacts of Potential Results on the Global Landscape
By Yasmin Turner, MSc International Development This year more than 40 countries, representing over 40% of the world’s population, will be holding national elections. Labelled by many as a “Super Bowl”, it is a record-breaking election year, with the ballot box battles poised to incur geopolitical and economic
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Catalan Independence Movement Rejuvenated After Spanish Elections
By Lilac Carr, BA Politics and International Relations Abascal, leader of the far-right Vox party in Spain, made an incendiary call for his supporters to have ‘‘No calm or tolerance in the face of the coup” After months of negotiating following an inconclusive snap election, Spain is facing massive
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Relations Between the International Community and Palestine and Israel Aid Organisations Remain Tense
By Yasmin Turner, MSc International Development On October 7th, Hamas – a Palestinian organisation which is proscribed a terrorist group by the UK, Israel and other countries – led an unprecedented attack on a music festival, towns and other locations in Israel. Hamas killed around 1,200 people and took about 240
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Fear in East Asia as Japan Began Releasing Filtered Nuclear Wastewater
By Kristi Greenwood, BA Japanese Chinese customs stated all imports of Japanese seafood would be banned ‘to protect the health of consumers’ Japan’s decades-long plan of releasing nuclear wastewater into the ocean, equal to 500 Olympic swimming pools, has finally begun. The wastewater has resulted from the cleanup