Could Okinawa become an independent state? Five Okinawans formed a group to study the possibility on May 15, the 41st anniversary of the island prefecture’s reversion to Japanese sovereignty.
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Skyrocketing rents in many German cities are pitting residents against real estate developers and landlords. The recent death of an elderly woman forced out of her apartment has emboldened alliances to protest evictions with sit-ins.
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Angelina Jolie and William Hague have sought to harness the megawattage of celebrity in their joint campaign for international action against mass rape in conflicts. They are now in the Congo.
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Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement rocked Italian politics by grabbing the balance of power in February’s national election.
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The Visegrad countries – the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia – have agreed to form a joint military force that should be operational by 2016. EurActiv Poland reports.
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A newly-elected parliamentarian for the Italian Five Star Movement (5SM), led by former comic Beppe Grillo, told EurActiv that the EU suffered from serious structural flaws, which are “unsustainable” in the long run. The party wants to open a debate on Italy’s euro membership.
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Corruption, personal interests and a lack of communication among its branches might appear to offer avenues for rebels to infiltrate Assad’s mukhabarat, but the security services are dominated by the Syrian leader’s tight-knit Alawite minority.
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On Tumblr and Facebook there are now mocking graphics that insult and hurt. Most shaming memes contain the phrase, ‘Hey Girls, Did You Know?’
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Two decades of economic stagnation and rising insecurity have unleashed work-based “new-type depression” in Japan.
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There is a strong and growing body of evidence showing a link between the dreaded disease and our high sugar consumption.
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