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The Middle East: Some hope, much despair

Who would have predicted a missing-in-action Lebanese prime minister, one of the deadliest earthquakes in the world and that Syria would lapget ahead of the

Putin’s plan for the west

According to press reports, U.S. President Donald Trump, in his desire for reconciliation with Russia, was initially considering removing sanctions on Russia and recognizing a

The Confucius Institute quandary

The Confucius Institutes (CIs), ostensibly benign Chinese language and cultural agencies, are funded and overseen by the Beijing party-state through an office commonly known as

Africa’s existential exodus

The Italian navy is tired of plucking Africans from dangerous Mediterranean waters off Libya night after night. Thousands of Africans are smuggled weekly across the

Escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula draw in the world

On Sept. 3, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) under Kim Jong-un detonated its sixth and largest nuclear test — estimated at between 50

Innovation at Kazakhstan’s EXPO

Innovation need not be complicated. In fact, some of the most ingenious submissions to EXPO 2017’s Energy Best Practices Pavilion were the kinds of things

Fixing Canada’s underperformance on innovation

Recent scientific research has confirmed that to remember something, we need to keep experiencing it, and then “forgetting” about it and re-remembering in between these

How and why Canada must innovate to remain competitive

When you think about innovation, Canada may not be the first country that comes to mind. After all, in the 2017 Global Innovation Index survey,

Innovation’s ground-shifting impacts on labour

The age of computing power — computerization, automation and robotics — is transforming today’s global labour markets in unprecedented ways, presenting great uncertainty about the