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'The Global Farms Race' and the quest for food security
As climate talks continue to grind along in Doha, food security would seem to be a major concern (especially as the U.N. issues warnings about the increasingly desperate food situation in Syria)....
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Now China Is Keeping Its State-of-the-Art Hospital Ship Away From the...
In October, China's massive, state-of-the-art hospital ship, the Peace Ark, completed a four-month deployment to eight countries, coordinating goodwill medical missions and running emergency response...
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Why It Took a Superstorm to Expose the Seedy Underbelly of Philippine Politics
More than a week after Super Typhoon Haiyan killed nearly 4,000 people and displaced another 4 million, relief efforts remain hampered by poor roadways, congested airports, and a host of other...
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Is the White House so Scared of Turkey That it Won't Even Hang a Rug?
In 1926, Vartoohi Galezian -- a 15-year-old refugee from the genocide in Armenia -- arrived at the White House to pay a visit to President Calvin Coolidge. She had come to view the rug she and 1,400...
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Can the World Still Make a Difference in the Central African Republic?
Things have gone from bad to worse in the Central African Republic. Nine months after a rebel alliance known as Seleka seized control of Bangui, the country's riverside capital, and forced President...
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Davos Wants You to Know It Really, Really Cares About Inequality
Pope Francis would like the international business mandarins assembled at Davos for the annual meetings of the World Economic Forum to know that they really ought to be doing something about economic...
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Seven Times Lady Grantham Completely Embarrassed Herself in Sierra Leone
An errant charity trip to Sierra Leone may have just ruined Downton Abbey forever. Elizabeth McGovern, who plays Cora, the Countess of Grantham on the hit British show Downton Abbey, went to Sierra...
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How Syria Did -- and Did Not -- Hang Over the Davos Conference
DAVOS, Switzerland — A group of aid workers and former refugees took over the basement of a Davos school, spooled out fake barbed wire, put up tents and corrugated metal walls and laid down straw on...
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Civil War Came to London, and You Won't Believe What This Little Girl Did Next
Actually, you will. After her neighborhood turned into a war zone, she fled along with her parents. They became refugees, scavenging for food and dodging gun fire. They became sick, and their diseases...
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South Sudan Wants (Some) Foreign Aid Workers Replaced
As the world's youngest nation, and one on the brink of famine, South Sudan doesn't seem like it's in a position to turn away international assistance. But that's what some officials in Juba seem to...
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Colonial Lines Drawn Again for Ebola Aid
When Ebola first hit rural Guinea last April, panicked villagers spread conspiracy theories that the virus was nothing more than a neocolonial ploy to weaken already marginalized ethnic groups. That...
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Former Rwandan Official Worries That Kagame's Administration Is Backsliding...
This story was updated on 9/30/2014 at 11:17 a.m. When Burundian fishermen first discovered bodies in Lake Wreru on the border of Rwanda this July, the Rwandan government quickly denied involvement in...
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Aging Population Forces Disaster Planners to Adapt Strategies
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The U.S. Could Learn a Lot About Domestic Policing From What it Preaches Abroad
When El Salvador emerged from more than a decade of civil war in the 1990s, the United States helped set up a training program for the country's new National Civilian Police as part of the...
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Nigeria to Washington: Take Your Military Aid and Shove It
Just weeks after the Nigerian ambassador to Washington blasted the U.S. military for not offering enough assistance to weaken Boko Haram, the Nigerian government canceled an American-run training...
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