Fragile states index annual report 2017
The Fragile States Index, produced by The Fund for Peace, is a critical tool in highlighting not only the normal pressures that all states experience, but also in identifying when those pressures are pushing
War
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NEWS SNIPPETS
• A British television channel has been criticised as "irresponsible' for making a drama in which US President George Bush is assassinated. Death of a President, on More4, uses actors and
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Ecological disaster looms large over Lebanon
As Israel continues airstrikes on Lebanon, the country is now threatened by its worst ecological disaster. At least 35,000 tonnes of oil gushed into the Mediterranean, after Israeli warplanes hit
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Conflict, food insecurity, and globalization
The researchers explore how globalization, broadly conceived to include international human rights norms, humanitarianism, and alternative trade, might influence peaceful and food secure outlooks and outcomes.
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Athens s fall
Typhoid could have caused the fall of the powerful city state during the Peloponnesian wars, says a new study
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Mental health consequences of war: a brief review of research findings
<p>Among the consequences of war, the impact on the mental health of the civilian population is one of the most significant. Studies of the general population show a definite increase in the incidence
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Humanitarian vessel confiscated
The military in Congo confiscated Ferbo I, a freight ship of the African Wildlife Foundation's (awf) on on November 12, 2005, which works for wildlife conservation and development. The ship was
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Microscopic view
Popular search engine Google's free mapping programme, Google Earth, has been criticised by various governments, including India, which feel that the satellite images with resolution as high as one
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The bickering endures
A poisonous gas accident in Guangzhou city prompted the Chinese government on June 28, 2005, to call for Japan's urgent action to destroy the chemical weapons its army left behind in China during
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Retro Ledo
A 1942 route could become new Asian link
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Bytes
smokescreen: As per a study by UK-based Lon don School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Philip Morris, the world's leading tobacco manufacturer, studied the effects of smoking 30 years ago, but it