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What’s Next for Cuba and its New President

Cuba has a new president and for the first time in six decades, it’s not a member of the Castro family. After stepping down, at the age of 87, Raul Castro has been replaced by Cuba’s first Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel. Castro replaced…
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Government Looks to Cut Back on Plastic Waste

Both the Queen and the Prime Minister are taking advantage of the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting currently underway at Buckingham Palace to emphasise the need to cut back on plastic waste. Theresa May said that the UK is taking…
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Justice for Asifa

Asifa Bano. This was the name of an eight-year-old girl who had been gang-raped and killed more than three months ago in Udhampur, Kashmir and is only getting recognition now. Over the weekend, the whole of India went into uproar after…
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World Leaders Consider Action in Syria

UK Prime Minister Theresa May and US President Donald Trump are considering the possibility of military action against the Assad regime in response to the suspected use of chemical weapons in the town of Douma, Syria. Trump called out Russia…
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U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan to Step Down

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan to Step Down

In a major political development in the United States Congress, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan announced on Wednesday that he will not run for re-election. Ryan, a Republican from Wisconsin who has served in the House since 1999, will see…
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The Change of Regimes by the Western World

There is a history of forceful regime changes by Western countries across the world and within 15 years, we have seen military campaigns in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya that resulted in the toppling of their governments. Whether it was the…
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