Turkey Releases Detained American Pastor
Andrew Brunson and his wife arrived back in the United States after 15 years of living in Turkey on October 13 and attended a press conference with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office
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October 2018
Saudi airstrikes bombard Yemen as world media fixates on Khashoggi
Saudi Arabia continues its airstrikes in Yemen by bombarding a vegetable market in the Hodeidah province, killing 19, in the background of other events that receive greater coverage.
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School of Diplomacy co-hosts International Peace Institutes’ Distinguished Author Series
On October 18, 2018, the School of Diplomacy and International Relations co-hosted the International Peace Institute’s (IPI) Distinguished Author Series. The event’s guest speaker was David E. Sanger, national security correspondent for the New York Times and author of “The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear of the Cyber Age.”
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Trump administration proposes to ‘define away’ transgender community
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.
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Focus on Cybersecurity: North Korea’s Elite Cyber Schools
North Korea’s team of over 5,000 hackers is growing and improving faster than most have predicted. Despite only recently recognizing the magnitude of this threat, the U.S. and other countries claim that North Korea poses a significant threat to their national security.
Read moreBrazilian Elections Devolve
In the first round Brazil’s elections on October 7, the right-wing presidential candidate, Jair Bolsonaro, failed to secure the 50 percent majority vote needed for an outright win, so the world must wait for the results of the second round.
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Domestic Unrest Remains Iran’s Greatest Adversity
With a new round of sanctions right around the corner, many key U.S. allies have also turned their back on the Islamic Republic.
Read moreNew NATO Admissions Spark Military Tensions
The recent admission of the Baltic nations of Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia to the NATO alliance is a clear warning sign to Russia to steer clear of the western European countries’ collective military force.
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Japan and Pakistan Struggle to Help Afghan Refugees
As the result of everything from invasion to regime changes, Afghanistan is almost unable to recover without foreign aid, and now Japan and Pakistan are suffering from unexpected blowbacks from different directions due to their desire to assist.
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Ebola Spreads in the Congo Amidst Rising Ethnic Tensions
Joseph Kabila, the current president of The Democratic Republic of the Congo, took power in 2001 after his father and since, has done nothing to raise his country out of the dirt.
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