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Image shows Neapolitan sunset, Credit Jessie Eastland/Wikimedia Commons The World Bank this week released an upbeat report on efforts toward combating climate degradation, saying climate financing by the world’s six largest multilateral development banks (MDBs) rose...

Dhaka, the capital Photo: ASaber91/Wikimedia Commons During much of the period before 1971, policymakers generally considered baby boom and natural disasters like cyclones and floods in the then East Pakistan and now Bangladesh as the major...

What makes the process a never-ending election season During his campaign for the White House Donald Trump said many times that he intended to turn the United States around.  His predecessors and Washington politicians had allowed...

Co-authored by Akbar Ahmed and Col. Lawrence Wilkerson Despite President Trump’s unveiling of his Afghanistan strategy on August 21, which involves committing several thousand additional American troops, the reality is that the war in Afghanistan, the...

Photo I, Laslovarga/Wikimedia Commons The cloud hanging over the future of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program – which allows nearly 800,000 Dreamers to study and work in the United States – has touched off a...

Evening is falling here. I am sitting in a hotel room, in front of the window, on the 18th floor. This hotel is majestically built and located by the Red Sea. I am looking at the...

Steve Jobs showing off the iPhone Photo by Matthew Yohe/Wikimedia Commons Immigrant contributions in the many areas of technology have long been known. But a huge revelation came to the fore on Wednesday at the Code...

Photo: Institute of Immigration Research In February this year, The Davis Museum at Wellesley College in Massachusetts removed all pieces of art contributed or donated by immigrants. This month, George Mason University’s Institute for Immigration Research,...

The Port of Shanghai in Yangshan Island Photo by Bigg(g)er/Wikimedia Commons The Mongols Yuan dynasty (1279-1368) ruled over China when the Great Kublai Khan – grandson of Genghis Khan – conquered China. But as they entrenched into...

Indian Agni Missile, Photo Antônio Milena via Wikimedia Commons India is recasting its nuclear weapons doctrine that would allow it to launch a preemptive nuclear strike against Pakistan’s arsenal in a war.  But the policy change would...