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Ideas A Melting Arctic Could Spark a New Cold War In a land as unforgiving as the Arctic, cooperation is critical to survival. That simple principle, called Piliriqatigiingniq, is a pillar of an ancient social code that has guided Inuit through

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Ideas Donald Trump’s Top Priority Must Be a Strong China Strategy As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office in January, one challenge looms large: China and its expanding role in the vital Asia-Pacific region. The incoming Administration will need to

A Syrian medical staff member inspects the damage at the site of a medical facility after it was reportedly hit by Syrian regime barrel bombs on Oct. 1, 2016, in the rebel-held neighbourhood of al-Sakhour, in the northern city of Aleppo.

Ideas Obituary: A Hospital in Aleppo (2013-2016)What happens when a hospital gets destroyed in war? Like a dead star, it collapses and burns, sending ripples of consequences to communities around it. It leaves a black hole for our collective

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Ideas Local Communities Must Take the Lead in Global Change Like many other countries around the world, my home country, Nepal, faces major educational and economic challenges. Only one in 10 children who start school in Nepal today will complete secondary

Ideas David Miliband: How to Bring Peace to the World’s Longest Civil War Sixty years into the world’s longest civil war, the transition to peaceful democracy in Myanmar remains elusive. The U.N. recently reported that up to 30,000 Muslims had fled their homes amid

Ideas My Aunt Overcame Pakistan's Repressive Laws to Stay True to Her Muslim Faith Honor and glory be always with thee God’s blessings shower down on all Thy beneficiaries, patients and workers My aunt, Dr. Nusrat Jahan, penned the above lines of poetry in 2003 for the

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Joe Kaeser, chief executive officer of Siemens AG, pauses during a news conference to announce a joint bid with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. for Alstom SA, in Paris on June 17, 2014.

Ideas To Beat Climate Change, Digitalize the Electrical World On April 12, 1870, a message from England clicked through on a telegraph machine almost seven thousand miles away in India—the first dispatch sent via a monumental telegraph line that Siemens

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Ideas Colombia Signed a New Peace Agreement. Will It Stick?When, after four years of negotiations between the Colombian government and FARC guerrillas, the Sept. 26 peace agreement was rejected by plebiscite, many feared that the promise of peace was lost

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