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Banyan Unforgiving history Why Buddhists and Muslims in Rakhine state in Myanmar are at each others’ throats Nov 3rd 2012 | from the print edition , the Economist IN THE morning sunlight, the panorama from the Shwethaung pagoda, on the highest hill in Mrauk-u, looked magical: lush rice paddy, sparkling lakes and wooded hills, many topped by other glinting gilt pagodas. But in..

Conquering Russia and the 'heartland' What happens when US moralistic interventionism collides with Russian imperial inertia? Last updated: 14 Jul 2014 08:37, Al Jazeera Vartan Oskanian Vartan Oskanian is a member of Armenia's National Assembly, a former foreign minister and the founder of Yerevan's Civilitas Foundation. Those who value geopolitics understand why the then-almi..

'Changing gender should be as easy as changing car numberplate' 2014.05.13 EU Oberrver BRUSSELS - Next week the Swedish parliament is expected to pass a law abolishing a requirement for people changing their legal gender to be sterilised. The move follows a high level and at times bitter debate about a four-decade old law that pitted equality activists against conservative poli..

India’s Feudal Rapists By Amana Fontanella Khan · in Commentary June 5, 2014 ·International Herald Tribune From the New York Times-When a distressed father is reporting his daughter’s disappearance to a policeman in India, there are some questions he doesn’t want to hear. “What is your caste?” is one of them. Yet, the father, Sohan Lal, said this was the first thi..

Rise (and fall) of “the rest”: what China, India, Brazil and Turkey tell us about the world today Given that developing countries face vastly different challenges with vastly different capacities to respond, we must stop thinking of them as members of a single club. by Ian Bremmer Published 4 July, 2014 - 11:15, New Stateman You’ve heard of the “rise of the rest”: th..

5 interesting facts about the Singapore River clean-up > End --> > Begin --> Published on Jul 5, 2014 6:00 AM The Straits Times, Singaphore > End --> > Begin --> The Singapore River and the Central Business District (CBD) skyline in 2013. -- PHOTO: ST FILE > End --> > Begin --> By Felicia Choo > End --> > Begin -->> End -->> Begin --> The heavily polluted Ganges River made head..

Understanding Political Islam By Dalibor Rohac June 23, 2014, Cato Institute Former Prime Minister of the UK, Tony Blair, said earlier this year that the threat of … radical Islam … is growing. It is spreading across the world. It is destabilising communities and even nations. It is undermining the possibility of peaceful co-existence in an era of globalisation. And in the ..

イラクとシャームのイスラーム国家（ＩＳＩＳ）」はイラク国家を崩壊させるか 池内恵 東京大学先端科学技術研究センター准教授 イラク中部サラハディン州の軍施設を奪ったイスラム過激派 「イラクとシャームのイスラーム&#2226..

Is this the end of Iraq? 14th June, 2014, BBC Latest As it happened Boost for Kurds End of Iraq? Is Obama right? Basic causes Next ISIS-led fighters took over a succession of Iraqi towns and cities in days Struggle for Iraq A boost for Kurdish aims? Six steps to disaster Mosul takeover Iraq is facing its most severe crisis in years, with the country on the brink of break-up ami..

A body is strung up on a cross in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa on Tuesday, April 29. The al Qaeda splinter group ISIS said the brutal display serves as a lesson to anyone who dares challenge its rule. The crucifixion displays began in March, when ISIS accused a shepherd of murder and theft, then shot him in the head and tied his lifeless body to a wooden cross. Other imag..