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… when the British East India Company first set up a factory and trading post on the island in 1819, it has grown into a … map of Singapore and the surrounding area. Situated at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, at the confluence of the Bay of Bengal, South China Sea , and Java Sea, Singapore comprises a small …

… While Americans have been focused on the economic crisis and the Presidential elections, events in North Korea have … and the ensuing six-party talks (involving North and South Korea, China, Russia, Japan, and the U.S.). Amidst … and healthy ways to eat wild grass." The United States, South Korea, and Japan, among others, helped to fill the …

… Stratfor, the Texas security company, revealing Egyptian and Sudanese plans to build an airstrip for bombing a dam in … the Nile River, there were no states in Eastern or Central Africa to challenge Egypt’s access to Nile waters. The Nile … that the Nile arose between the peaks of Crophi and Mophi, south of the first cataract. In 140 C.E. Ptolemy suggested …

… read, “ Paradise Papers Documents Raise Questions over African Mining Deal .” A story in the German Süddeutsche … the way corporations hide profits through tax havens and avoidance. A 2014 aerial view of Congolese coltan … as well. In 1931, for example, the Pende people of the Southwestern Kasai rose up against the Huileries du Congo (a …

… 1, 2011, the United Nations welcomed its newest member. South Sudan's January referendum on independence and subsequent peaceful separation from Sudan following … restored order in April, the peace remains fragile. Also in Africa, the catastrophe unfolding in Somalia symbolizes some …

… had been charged with second-degree murder for killing African American teenager Trayvon Martin on February 26, 2012. Martin’s parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, had sat through every moment of the … on juries. In the process, they began to transform the South. But African American advances were short lived. …

… less forgotten figure in the turbulent history of the 1960s and 1970s. However, he played a critical role in the … the assignment that would consume his career with the CIA: South Vietnam. The South Vietnamese regime headed by Ngo Dinh Diem was …

… Children are starving to death in East Africa. Famine has overwhelmed aid agencies. The United … History suggests that they will.   America has a long and deep humanitarian tradition of responding to the cries … the region as well. The worst of the famine zone is within Southern Somalia, an area controlled by Al-Shabab, a …

… news about ending the decades-old conflict between India and Pakistan. At the United Nations, the leaders of both … war against terrorism cannot be won without stability in South Asia. Now is the time for the United States to … massed on their respective borders, war seemed imminent. South Asia was on the brink of a nuclear catastrophe. The …

… Many blame Abiy Ahmed Ali, prime minister of Ethiopia and Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 2019, for not only … derivation as Abyssinia. Some argue that the peoples of the southern provinces of modern Ethiopia, specifically the … the first female head of state of an internationally known African country , the Empress Zewditu (r. 1916-1930). The …

… to the embattled hope for democracy in the impoverished southeast Asian country. Americans may remember Burma … knew Burma as a newly independent British colony in southeast Asia, fully hopeful of joining the world community of free and independent nations. Burma is little known to us now …

… given Kim’s recent threats to attack the United States and South Korea with nuclear weapons — and precisely the … peninsula. Nixon learned this first hand when he visited South Korea in 1953 as vice president. An impressionable …

… In October 2021, South Dakota—long discounted as “fly-over country”—had a national moment. The Washington Post published the Pandora Papers , revealing that over $360 billion of secret … established in a state with fewer than a million people. South Dakota, the stories revealed, had become the “Cayman …

… reaches the president’s desk, disclosing that a formidable and reckless adversary in Northeast Asia will soon test a … of Korea (DPRK), and East Asian neighbors—China, Japan , South Korea, Russia—have risen. And the war of words (and … states in Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, where Moscow competed with both Washington and …

… summer the American public awoke to the spectacle of thousands of children from Central America, some as young as … nations have also received millions of immigrants from Africa, Asia, and Europe. Immigration to these countries, … parts of Italy were more economically developed than its southern reaches and thus the initial wave of Italian …

… initiatives to strengthen the border wall with Mexico and contentious debates surrounding immigration and … what you mean by reproducing American tactics at Mexico's southern border?   Dr. Mathew Coleman  Well, this is a more … that pushed migration into unprecedented...from Central and South America. And crime that followed those drug cartels up …

… that World War II began with Hitler’s invasion of Poland in 1939, the roots of that global conflict actually … mattered a great deal to those living throughout East and Southeast Asia . They soon found themselves at the center of … Polo Bridge Incident transpired a mere dozen or so miles southwest of Beijing’s Forbidden City in the vicinity of the …

… advertising the 1974 boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman as "a gift to the Zairean people from … of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) within Africa ( right ). But wait: Zaire? Formerly the Belgian … most brutally exploited European colonial possessions in Africa. As with many former European colonies, its efforts …

… States seems poised to begin peace talks with the Taliban, and that worries Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Last week … these secret negotiations, President Richard Nixon promised South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu that he would … not accept proposals offered from the North and would keep South Vietnamese officials updated on major developments.   …

… After being out of power for 13 years, 7 months, and 21 days, Nawaz Sharif was reelected prime minister of … Ali Jinnah. Gandhi and the Congress argued that despite South Asia’s complicated mosaic of ethnicities, languages, … while they may live side by side, the Hindus and Muslims of South Asia constituted two separate nations. In a single …

… the Spanish port of Sanlúcar de Barrameda sailing west — and kept going. Led by explorer Ferdinand Magellan, the … two halves: Portugal could colonize and develop trade with Africa, Asia, and the East Indies, while Spain controlled … arrived on the coast of what is now Brazil to wait out the Southern Hemisphere winter, many aboard were suffering from …