2020
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April 10, 2020 — Multiple Crises Time
Along with climate shocks, conflict and acute food insecurity, the east Africa region now faces the Desert Locust, a scourge of biblical proportions. ... [Read more...]
2018
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August 1 2018- EU-Japan Trade Agreement
On July 17, 2018, leaders of the EU and Japan signed a sweeping deal doing away with almost all tariffs between them. ... [Read more...]
2017
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February 28, 2017 – Madagascar Is Hurting
While formerly parched California received so much rain in the winter of 2016-17 that towns flooded, people in an island country off the coast of Southern Africa were hoping and praying for it. ... [Read more...]
2016
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May 25, 2016 — Japan
Protesters are once again questioning the value of American military bases on Okinawa, Japan because of crimes against Japanese citizens perpetrated by United States servicemen. Japan TV’s NHK Newsline ... broadcast ... that the Japanese are outraged. ... [Read more...] -
January 11, 2016 – Asia
While people in much of the UK and North America have suffered through severe winter floods, the situation is the opposite for nations in the Southern Hemisphere. ... [Read more...]
2015
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September 18, 2015 – Japan
Controversial Japanese legislation, known as Collective Self-defense, was approved ... [Read more...] -
August 06, 2015 — Japan
Did someone turn back the clock while we were all sleeping? In several ways the world seems to be trending back to pre-World War II like conditions. One of these involves Japan. ... [Read more...] -
May 6, 2015 – Global
The Beijing-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) may not be a physical reality yet, but in the global financial community it has already gained a lot of attention as the ‘new kid in the neighborhood’. ... [Read more...] -
March 4, 2015 – China
Deutsche Welle (DW) TV, on March 4, 2015, reported China is “beefing up” its military spending by 10%, and that is is causing “jangled nerves” among its neighbors. ... [Read more...] -
January 5, 2015 – Africa
Deutsche Welle’s January 3, 2015 headline read, "Boko Haram kidnaps 40 boys and young men in northeastern Nigeria" ... [Read more...]
2014
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November 11, 2014 – Asia
Top Global government and private sector leaders convened in Beijing, China for the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) conference in early November. ... Around the same time, Japan generated news of a different kind. ... [Read more...]
