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The unity of water
By Mikhail Gorbachev - Aug 05, 2014 - Last updated at Aug 05, 2014 22:31
In May, Vietnam became the 35th and decisive signatory of the 1997 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of Inte ...
Antarctica’s point of no return
By Anders Levermann - Aug 03, 2014 - Last updated at Aug 03, 2014 22:35
Recent satellite observations have confirmed the accuracy of two independent computer simulations that show that the West Antarctic ice shee ...
What to do with all of the nurses?
By Ahmad Al-Nawafleh - Jul 26, 2014 - Last updated at Jul 26, 2014 23:05
If you think unemployment is bad amongst university graduates, try looking at recent nursing graduates in Jordan! Back when I finished my m ...
Creative destruction at work
By Carl Benedikt Frey - Jul 24, 2014 - Last updated at Jul 24, 2014 23:18
Throughout history, technological progress has created enormous wealth but also caused great disruption. ...
Silicon Valley’s spy problem
By Martin Kenney - Jul 24, 2014 - Last updated at Jul 24, 2014 00:01
In a recent letter to US President Barack Obama, the CEO of Cisco Systems, John Chambers, requested that the National Security Agency stop i ...
Containing the resource crisis
By Alejandro Litovsky - Jul 20, 2014 - Last updated at Jul 20, 2014 23:36
The proclamation of a new Cold War, following Russia’s annexation of Crimea, turned out to be alarmist and premature. ...
Hard truths about Europe’s soft power
By Nick Witney - Jul 18, 2014 - Last updated at Jul 18, 2014 00:18
In the run-up to last December’s European Union defence summit, British General Nick Houghton warned that the United Kingdom’s a ...
A new caliphate?
By Cole Bunzel - Jul 18, 2014 - Last updated at Jul 18, 2014 00:15
The recent declaration of a caliphate by the militant group the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is an unprecedented event in modern t ...
Renzi’s promise
By Fabrizio Tassinari - Jul 12, 2014 - Last updated at Jul 12, 2014 23:06
Watching Italian football fans last month, one might have thought that a World Cup victory was the country’s most important opportunit ...
Escaping the bear hug
By Merkhat Sharipzhan - Jul 09, 2014 - Last updated at Jul 09, 2014 22:56
Three former Soviet republics — Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine — have now signed association agreements with the European Union, d ...

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