On November 17, John Allen Chau, a 27 year-old missionary from Washington State was killed by the enigmatic inhabitants of the island of North Sentinel in the Bay of Bengal.
Read MoreThe Catholic Church has an unfortunate history of hiding sex abuse reports and protecting perpetrators, so it is not hard to imagine that many people have lost trust in the Church to handle these matters with the importance and responsibility that it deserves.
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Cypriot officials opened two new border crossings in the Southeastern village of Dherynia and Northwest town of Lefka for the first time in eight years. This was the latest push for peace after multiple failed United Nations negotiations last year.
Read MoreIn the month of November, Sri Lanka has experienced many watershed moments in its ongoing political tumult. President Maithripala Sirisena abruptly dismissed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe from office and inserted former leader Mahinda Rajapaksa in his place.
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On Monday November 12, seven Palestinians and one Israeli were killed in a covert Israeli operation. The exchange occurred outside of the city of Khan Younis in the south of the Gaza strip.
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Germany’s mammoth political leader, Angela Merkel, announced on October 29 that she will not seek re-election as German Chancellor in 2021. Merkel also stated that she would step down as the head of her political party, the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), at its conference in December.
Following the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union, or the ‘Brexit’ vote, Britain and Germany are seeing a large uptick in applications for German citizenship by descendants of those who fled Nazi rule, reports Al Jazeera.
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Thousands of Central American migrants hope to make their way to the United States by walking across Mexico. The “migrant caravan” originated in Honduras on October 12 and originally consisted of less than 200 migrants, but has now swelled to over 7,000.
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President Trump plans to define gender in stricter terms, preventing a person from identifying as transgender. The new definition of gender would specify be unchangeable, and thereby heavily problematic to those 1.4 million people belonging to the transgender community.
Read MoreThe Executive Board of the Student Government Association promoted bringing back a Presidential Cabinet in order to connect the SGA with the University community.
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