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A Spanish disquisition
By Victor Lapuente Giné - Oct 11, 2017 - Last updated at Oct 11, 2017 22:43
Within a few days, the Catalan regional parliament may declare Catalonia’s independence, after 500 years of history with Spain. ...
Smoking out big tobacco
By Kelle Louaillier - Oct 10, 2017 - Last updated at Oct 10, 2017 22:26
Recently, the tobacco industry’s lack of respect for people’s lives, international law and national sovereignty has been placed under a spot ...
IT is fuelling wealth and income inequality
By Mordecai Kurz - Oct 09, 2017 - Last updated at Oct 09, 2017 22:34
For more than 30 years in advanced economies, particularly the United States, wealth and income inequality have increased, real (inflation-a ...
When appointing new academic staff
By Tareq Lewis Mukattash - Sep 27, 2017 - Last updated at Sep 27, 2017 22:48
Every year, tens of faculties at local universities, public and private, fund (for obtaining a postgraduate degree) and appoint new academic ...
To trounce traffickers of human misery
By Yury Fedotov - Sep 27, 2017 - Last updated at Sep 27, 2017 22:48
“When I refused to sell my body they sold me to another brothel.”This is the heart-rending testimony of a 13-year-old Nepalese girl named Sk ...
To enhance energy efficiency in buildings
By Sameer Assaf - Sep 26, 2017 - Last updated at Sep 26, 2017 22:35
Nowadays, efficient usage of energy is becoming a first priority for most business owners and government sectors, due to high energy prices ...
What makes a human?
By Kevin Laland - Sep 23, 2017 - Last updated at Sep 23, 2017 23:03
Last month, moviegoers flocked to theatres to see “War for the Planet of the Apes”, in which an army of retrovirus-modified primates wage wa ...
Weathering the violence of climate change
By Gulrez Shah Azhar - Sep 19, 2017 - Last updated at Sep 19, 2017 23:43
With India experiencing its worst drought in 140 years, Indian farmers have taken to the streets. ...
Counting what counts in development
By Selim Jahan - Sep 16, 2017 - Last updated at Sep 16, 2017 22:54
To most people, “development” is best measured by the quantity of change — like gains in average income, life expectancy or years spent in s ...
Closing the youth apathy gap
By Michael A. Asudi - Sep 14, 2017 - Last updated at Sep 14, 2017 22:44
When the United Nations’ member countries adopted the Sustainable Development Goals two years ago, they committed themselves to reduce subst ...

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