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News in brief: Mechanisation & the failing economy / Worsening health & mortality in the UK / Agricultural markets & sovereign power in Syria / Monitoring global shipping activity

4 July 2019

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News in brief: Merger of trade and war / Economic recession / Possibility of US-Iran negotiations

31 May 2019

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News in brief N°8

18 April 2018

A summary of select international news: Inequality in the US is as bad as it was nearly a century ago, public opinion ignored, people support better pay even if prices increase, chemical weapons in Syria, a short history of chemical weapons in the Middle East.

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News in brief N°7

3 April 2018

A summary of select international news: The entanglements of North Korean nuclear weaponry and the related long game for power by leading countries, the world’s agricultural industries increasingly concentrated and under the influence of a few businesses, national interest and embedded profits in the development of international communications standards.

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News in brief N°6

20 March 2018

A summary of select international news: The importance of the Russian elections, why major war is increasingly a topic of conversation, Syria’s Kurd’s struggling with internal and international political problems, foreign aid as a policy tool, who actually hosts the most refugees.

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News in brief N°5

13 March 2018

A summary of select international news: A close look at the international political competition in and over Afghanistan, the West is transforming and the new US import tariffs, Saudi Arabia in world politics, China partially restructures its political constitution.

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News in brief N°4

27 February 2018

A summary of select international news: Siege of Syria’s Ghouta and wilful decisions resulting in continued international warfare, China’s constitutional reform, the Maldives as a piece in the economic and political contest for global power.

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News in brief N°3

20 February 2018

A summary of select international news: A deep crisis of the political economy in the West, a false plan for US recovery, a grand meeting of the “transatlantic family” in Germany, contest over Western leadership.

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News in brief N°2

13 February 2018

A summary of select international news: An interpretation of stock market crashes, the burden of household debt, massive hikes in military spending, war planes shot down, conflict between powerful countries.

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News in brief N°1

6 February 2018

A summary of select international news: Poverty and loneliness in the UK, who holds wealth in Europe, on US decline, war in Syria, war in Afghanistan.