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Russia bombing
On Jan. 24th 2011 a suicide bomber killed approximately 35 people at Russia's busiest airport. President Dmitry Medvedev vowed to track down and punish those behind the bombing, which also injured over 150 people at Moscow's Domodedovo airport. The bombing was linked to a terrorist attack; the largest since twin suicide bombings on the Moscow metro rocked the Russian heartland in March. According to committee spokesman Vladimir Markin, attempts were being made to identify the suspected male suicide... Read more
Winter Youth Olympic Games
The first Youth Winter Olympic Games (YOG) are scheduled to begin in Jan. 2012 in Innsbruck, Austria. The Youth Olympic Games started in the summer of 2010 in Singapore. Featuring athletes aged 14 to 18, they are expected to occur once... Read more
For most Laurier students, ongoing news of revolution, humanitarian disaster and brute repression in Libya have been fleeting thoughts amid imminent concerns for final term projects and examinations.
To Mohammed Etleb, a dedicated third-year business student and former resident of Libya, the crisis has been... Read more
The Japanese crisis has been the result of the Tohoku earthquake which hit on March 11. The earthquake subsequently triggered a tsunami that hit mere minutes after.
The string of natural disasters has resulted in nearly 10,000 confirmed deaths with almost 15,000 missing and injured. The nearby Fukushima 1 Nuclear Power Plant sustained a large degree of structural damage as a result of the disasters.
Four out of six nuclear reactors have been seriously damaged with fears growing of a... Read more
CASTRIES, St. Lucia The Minister of Tourism issued a public apology last Monday to three American males who had been attacked inside their vacation home on March 2. All of the men are homosexual and claim the attackers had anti-gay motives for beating, robbing and threatening their lives if they stayed on the island. They managed to escape and left St. Lucia shortly after one was hospitalized. With no eyewitnesses, nothing has been confirmed but the government insists they island... Read more
“Are all humans human?” inquired Lt- General (Ret.) Roméo Dallaire, appearing in J. G. Hagey Hall at the University of Waterloo on Mar. 18. “Are all humans human or are some more human than others?”
“Why was it that in Rwanda where there were more... Read more
On Mar. 21, Rutvica Andrijasevic gave a talk in the Laurier Graduate Lounge discussing her book concerning the agenda of sex trafficking.
Andrijasevic’s view of the topic, however, was quite contrary to common associations with the term. “Women who have been involved in sex trafficking are typically seen as victims,” she explained, going on to add that this should not be the case.
“When you hear stories of women’s migration that involves forced prostitution, the story stops there,” Andrijasevic... Read more
JERUSALEM, Israel The Israeli military has deemed the murder of a family a terror attack, after two parents and three children were found dead in their Itamar home. Although no suspects have been found, authorities believe multiple persons are responsible as both guns and knives were used as murder weapons. The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted Palestinian authorities assist in finding the perpetrators.
TOKYO, Japan Northeastern Japan was struck by one of the most powerful earthquakes on record, and... Read more
After a year and half of consultations between London’s National History Museum (NHM) and the Torres Strait Islanders in Australia, another repatriation of human remains from the U.K. to the Torres Strait community commenced on Mar. 9. This event marks the second and largest act of repatriation the NHM has undertaken. It acknowledges its desire to move towards improving archeological collaboration with aboriginal nations whose values have been repeatedly undermined.
The NHM has the remains of approximately 138 Aboriginal people,... Read more
On Mar. 9, the Center for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) held a presentation concerning the changing face of globalization. Jorge Heine of Wilfrid Laurier University, William Coleman, chairman of globalization and public policy at CIGI and award winning essay and novelist John Ralston Saul discussed... Read more
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa There has been rapid rise of acidic water streaming from abandoned mines running for kilometers underneath Johannesburg. Toxic liquid has built up in mine shafts for over a century, and will start to empty into low–lying areas of the city most common to tourists, by early 2012. Water with a low pH reading, will negatively affect property and infrastructure in these areas. To prevent any permanent damage the government will install pump stations by March 2012.
BEIJING,... Read more
Megan Cherniak
“I don’t want your money for the people of Bolivia if it’s for charity, that’s disrespectful.”
This surprising statement came from lead financial officer of MEDA (Mennonite Economic Development Associates) Gerhard Pries last Tuesday night during his presentation for International Week on the harmful effects of food aid.
“My work,” Pries said, “is to prove to money hungry Wall Street that investing in Bolivia and Ghana is a good thing to do. It’s good for the world, it’s good for... Read more
“The whole issue of how we perceive ourselves is translated through the eye of the camera. The question of how images really appear to us in many ways always fades into the archives of our mind,” Lloyd Axworthy explained, appearing at Wilfrid Laurier University this... Read more
Considered to be the catalyst of the uprisings in Northern Africa, civil resistance sparked as 26-year-old Mohamed Bouazizi publicly lit himself on fire. Mass protests subsequently ensued following this act of defiance in the capital of Tunis calling for the removal of President Ben Ali from office. The movement was fueled over years of poor living conditions, food inflation and profound levels of corruption. Finally yielding to domestic pressures, President Ben Ali stepped down and fled the country on... Read more
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Joseph White — On exchange in Germany
In between my two semesters of study in Marburg Germany, my good friend Mike came to visit me for 3 weeks of gallivanting across Europe, during which one of our more memorable stops was Bozi Dar in the... Read more
Elli Garlin
On Feb. 17, the Kitchener Auditorium had the privilege of hosting 6,000 eager students from across Waterloo Region for We Day, an event run by international organization Free the Children aimed toward inspiring student leadership and action.
Founders Craig and Marc Kielberger shared their message... Read more
“God willing, we will make this a year of blood and tears,” was the hostile threat from Caucasus Emirate Emir Doku Umarov in last week’s release of a homemade video claiming responsibility for the Moscow airport bombing on Jan. 24.
The Domodedovo airport explosion resulted in the death of 36 innocent bystanders, as well as injuring over 100 others.
This extremist group, regarded as an Islamic terrorist association by the Russian government, has made headlines in the past for the... Read more
Devon Coote
Voices across the United Kingdom were infuriated by the English government’s proposal to sell 15 per cent of its forests, which are currently maintained by the Forestry Commission. The government claims a conflict of interest is their motivation for the move, while citizens believe the issue is ruining a part of England’s cultural identity.
The Forestry Commission currently manages 18 per cent of England’s forests, which translates to 257,000 hectares of land. The remaining 931,000 hectares is owned through various... Read more
Megan Cherniak
Lead investigative journalist for the CBC, Nazim Baksh gave a presentation on Feb. 9 about perspectives concerning Muslims represented in the media as well as his experiences dealing with the 9-11 attacks in New York City.
“Everyone has their own beat in the newsroom,” Baksh said. “There’s the religion beat, the crime beat. In the past 20 years I found my own beat: the Jihad beat.”
Organized by the religion and culture department at Wilfrid Laurier University, Baksh presented using... Read more
CAIRO, Eygpt After the removal of Hosni Mubarak as the prime minister of Egypt, the country’s military suspended the constitution and announced that they would be controlling the country for the next six months or until elections can be held. The military intends to appoint a counsel that will review the constitution and propose changes, which will then be presented to the voters of Egypt with the objective of making constitutional amendments. Mubarak, after a nearly 30-year rule, finally stepped... Read more
