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Ebola hell in Liberia.
By Jacinta Fay and Silas Kpanan’Ayoung Siakor. Liberians are haunted by the sights they now see on their streets. Dead bodies await ambulances. Soldiers patrol in combat-ready gear. Every Liberian has been impacted by the Ebola epidemic. In three to six months the epidemic may be under control but the crisis has affected every facet […]
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No Planet B
By Lorna Gold Whatever way you look at it, the last week of September was an extraordinary week in climate politics. The risen dust is only starting to settle. It started with over 2,000 coordinated global demonstrations, including a march of 400,000 people through the streets of New York, demanding climate justice. This was followed […]
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Like our relations in the US, immigrants in Ireland cannot go home for a father’s funeral or a sister’s wedding
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EU’s Roman values
Rome declaration commits government departments to implement equality and non-discrimination
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China astir
Democracy may not mean majority rule
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By James Nix. A currently proposed, the EU Commission would, for the first time in more than two decades, have no dedicated environment Commissioner. Instead environment is rolled in with fisheries and maritime to make up one of what are essentially 20 sub-Commissioner roles – under Commissioner Karmenu Vella. Its role will centre on deregulation. […]
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By Frank Armstrong. There are two possible solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: one realistic the other miraculous. The realistic solution conjures divine intervention; the miraculous, a voluntary agreement between the parties. The latest round of conflict is, mercifully, largely over. On August 26th, both Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) accepted a ceasefire agreement […]