If you decided you wanted to get your hands on an Ottawa Public Library hard copy of the Michelle Obama memoir Becoming in January, your hold joined more than 1,400 others on a four-month wait-list. “We had a good indication that this was going to be very popular, we had pre-ordered a lot of copies,” said Ann […]
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While she was ecstatic to be heading home, though, Katherine O'Neil says she feels let down by a lack of effort and communications from the Canadian Embassy and Global Affairs Canada.
Damascus: A double bomb attack in Syrias jihadist-held city of Idlib on Monday killed 24 people, including four children, a war monitor said. The first blast was caused by a bomb planted under a car i
BYU men’s volleyball defeated No. 14 University of Southern California in four sets to one at home Feb. 16 after a rough string of road losses.
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Scott B. MacDonald
Security, Middle East
Although the three-nation summit did not get much press in the West, its emergence is a signal, albeit a quiet one, that Eurasia’s geopolitical landscape is undergoing major changes.
On February 14, 2019, leaders from three of Eurasia’s major powers met at Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi to discuss Syria. In attendance were the host, President Vladimir Putin, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani. Читать дальше...
Ali Wyne
Security, Americas
While it has become nearly axiomatic for observers of world affairs to contend that the U.S.-led postwar order is under growing, if not unprecedented, duress, there is little consensus about what architecture, if any, might replace it.
While it has become nearly axiomatic for observers of world affairs to contend that the U.S.-led postwar order is under growing, if not unprecedented, duress, there is little consensus about what architecture, if any, might replace it. Читать дальше...
Life tables are a basic demographic tool for analysing mortality and survival. They show death and survivorship rates at each age of life.
The U.S. State Department is looking into reports that as many as five Americans are among a group of foreigners arrested in Haiti and charged with conspiracy.
Like his counterpart in the NFL, baseball commissioner Rob Manfred is tasked with taking teams' obvious actions and pretending that something else is going on.
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Left-wing activists and the media in Wisconsin are smearing a state Supreme Court candidate for being on the board of a small Christian school and for old blog posts on cases about abortion and gay sex. Brian Hagedorn, a current Wisconsin Court of Appeals judge and a former legal counsel for Gov. Scott Walker, said at […]
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A convoy of angry Albertans and other westerners rolls into Ottawa Tuesday for a mass protest against federal energy and environmental policies that has also become a magnet for extremist, anti-immigrant elements.
Gerald Butts resigned Monday as the principal secretary to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Here are five things to know about who he is and what his role has been, from The Canadian Press.
A MAN has died after being burned alive when the portable toilet he was using was engulfed in flames on Sunday. Witnesses described seeing the burning man run from the portaloo outside the M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland, before collapsing. The victim, believed to be middle-aged, was so badly burned that authorities are still […]
Trump confidant posted graphic of judge in front of crosshairs
Chelsea were knocked out of the FA Cup tonight by Manchester United at Stamford Bridge. Having already called for Maurizio Sarri to be sacked last weekend, this performance does nothing to change my mind. By the sounds of it, plenty in the stands are beginning to feel the same.We wanted to see a reaction domestically tonight having been thumped by Manchester City just over a week ago. Forget Malmo in the Europa League, this is where it matters at home against an old foe. For 30 minutes we had some... Читать дальше...
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Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu admits he expects Leo Messi to stay beyond his current contract.
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MANILA, Philippines – Over a span of a week, an estimated P472.63 million of cocaine bricks were found along the shores of 4 provinces in the Philippines, a country believed to be primarily a market for shabu (methamphetamine) .
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Alexander Vuving
Security, Asia
"Kim’s young age nearly forces him to make quick and ambitious achievements, but it also encourages him to think long-term about boosting the economy and improving his country’s place in the world, which will entail economic reform and geopolitical repositioning among the great powers and regional states."
Building the “ultimate weapon” and behaving recklessly, North Korea has for decades been causing big headaches for the outside world. Due to its unique political system... Читать дальше...
Nicholas J. Myers
Security, Eurasia
Russia's new countermeasures against Color Revolutions do not seem to be succeeding.
At least since the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine, the Russian Federation has planned to counter the “color revolutions.” These uprisings involved the overthrowing of post–Cold War dictators in Yugoslavia 2000, Georgia 2003 (rose), Ukraine 2004 (orange), and Kyrgyzstan 2005 (tulip). Since then, the term has become somewhat passé in the West, but Russia remains obsessed with them even in 2019. Читать дальше...