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Fighting Breaks Out Between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar
Violence between Myanmar’s Buddhists and the Rohingya Muslim ethnic minority has intensified since beginning in May 2012, with 84 deaths and 22,500 people displaced in the latest round of conflict according to the United Nations and state-run newspaper New Light of Myanmar. Crisis Overshadows Reforms The emerging crisis between the Buddhists and ethnic minority […]
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Iranians Discover Monitoring Device Near Fordow Nuclear Site
Iranian Revolutionary Guards reportedly discovered a listening device at the Fordow Nuclear Site disguised as a rock. When the soldiers attempted to move the rock it exploded. The transmitting device within was capable of intercepting computer transmissions.
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What are the Limits of the U.S.-Israel Alliance?
To what extent can Israel exercise unilateral action in the face of external threats like the Iranian nuclear program without angering its longstanding ally the United States? An article from Gideon Levy for Haaretz claims that Israel is the “cricket chirping in the background about Iran,” a small state increasingly forced into a position in […]
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