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Now displaying: April, 2019
Apr 29, 2019

China's defense budget ballooned to $250 billion in 2018, part of a ten-fold increase since 1994.

Apr 26, 2019

Refugees International says those fleeing Myanmar this month report conditions in the country have not improved since a campaign of ethnic cleansing began in 2017.

Apr 25, 2019

Days after Islamic State attacks in Sri Lanka, anti-Muslim sentiment has swept the island, sending members of the island's Muslim community to seek protection.

Apr 24, 2019

A new study finds five years of war in Yemen has undone more than 20 years of human development in the country.

Apr 24, 2019

The US threatened to veto a German resolution at the U.N. unless references to “sexual and reproductive health” care for victims of sexual violence in conflict were removed.

Apr 22, 2019

Ukrainian voters rejected incumbent Petro Poroshenko’s reelection bid this weekend and chose instead to throw in their lot with comedian Volodymyr Zelensky.

Apr 19, 2019

Egyptian voters are poised to rubber stamp constitutional changes allowing President Sisi to remain in office until 2030, and the climate crisis may be pushing Americans to embrace some far-fetched geoengineering ideas.

Apr 18, 2019

Climate change protesters in the UK have made headlines by snarling traffic and public transit, but is their message getting across?

Apr 17, 2019

Critics contend blocking US tourists and US dollars from reaching the island will only decrease the chances of democratic change there.

Apr 16, 2019

Canada's decision to join on to a German-led Alliance of Multilateralism may be part of a broader trend by 'middle power' nations to opt of larger global power struggles and focus on delivering results.

Apr 15, 2019

The prospects of North Korean diplomacy look just as bleak now as they did after the failure of February's Trump-Kim summit.

Apr 12, 2019

Week in review: An ongoing Ebola outbreak worsens in the DRC, Sudan's al-Bashir is sacked in a coup and a private Israeli space craft crashes just short of the Moon.

Apr 11, 2019

Journalists may be hesitant to see Julian Assange as one of their own, but US charges against him could imperil all reporters.

Apr 10, 2019

The US Vice President articulated a version of the Monroe Doctrine to say Venezuela was in Washington's back yard and not an appropriate space for Russian or other foreign interference.

Apr 9, 2019

By blocking a deal to allow Cuban players to legally play in the MLB, is the U.S. driving Cuban athletes back into the arms of human smugglers?

Apr 8, 2019

An ongoing power struggle in Libya may boil down to local politics, but the ensuing chaos is destabilizing an entire region.

Apr 5, 2019

"Before the campaign very light on policy, now I would say that the policy element of the debate is almost entirely non-existent, and that is what’s worrisome to me.”

Apr 4, 2019

In response to last month's mass shooting in New Zealand, Australian law makers have made tech companies criminally liable for hosting violent content.

Apr 3, 2019

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó lost his parliamentary immunity this week, a move that could herald his impending arrest.

Apr 2, 2019

Canada's new 'tax and dividend' policy aims to change consumer behavior and lower emissions without breaking family budgets.

Apr 1, 2019

For the second time in a week, British lawmakers voted down four milder alternatives to Brexit, once again casting the future of Brexit in doubt. Some lawmakers have had enough.

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