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The Comparative Politics of Coronavirus (Global Connections)

ThinkTech is a Hawaii 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Please support us by making a donation. http://www.thinktechhawaii.com How different political systems have responded. The Comparative Politics of Coronavirus: How different political systems have responded. Explore the variation of different countries to the crisis. Compare how different political systems and particular leaders have helped or hindered. Highlight features of […]

Trump and Modi – the visit, the issues and the aftermath (Global Connections)

ThinkTech is a Hawaii 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Please support us by making a donation. http://www.thinktechhawaii.com Trump’s trip has raised issues in India. Kartikey Mishra, a university business student in the holy city of Varansai, India, will discuss Trump’s recent visit with Modi and its implications for US-India relations. He will also discuss the Hindu-Muslim contention that […]

The continual saga unfolding around the world about the Coronavirus (Global Connections)

ThinkTech is a Hawaii 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Please support us by making a donation. http://www.thinktechhawaii.com Many places taking more drastic measures. Carlos Juarez will continue the discussion about how coronavirus is unfolding around the world, in the Americas, in Europe and in Asia, and the drastic measures being taken to deal with it by the various […]

The Geopolitical Implications of Coronavirus (Global Connections)

ThinkTech is a Hawaii 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Please support us by making a donation. http://www.thinktechhawaii.com Many nations are likely to be affected. Carl Baker, formerly the Executive Director of Pacific Forum, will discuss the geopolitical implications and effects of coronavirus on various countries affected by the disease, and help us understand the relationship of such epidemic […]

Update on Hong Kong (Global Connections)

ThinkTech is a Hawaii 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Please support us by making a donation. http://www.thinktechhawaii.com Moving from street protests to coronavirus. Michael Davis, who taught at Hong Kong Law School for many years, and who is now a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, D.C., will join us from India to bring us […]

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More Than 200 Protesters Arrested at 4 U.S. Campuses

The police made arrests at Washington University in St. Louis, Northeastern, Arizona State and Indiana, as more schools move in on encampments. [...]

‘Decisions Under Fire’: Campuses Try a Mix of Tactics as Protests Grow

Some colleges that initiated police crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protests have since taken a different tack. Others have defended the move. Hundreds have been arrested. [...]

Why Gaza Protests on U.S. College Campuses Have Become So Contagious

Experts say the partisan political context in Washington is a driver behind the spread of protests at American universities even as overseas campuses have stayed relatively calm. [...]

After Israel Aid Vote, Pocan Seeks to Show Biden Liberal Dismay on Gaza

The progressive Democrat from a rural, mostly white Wisconsin district is highlighting that it is not just young people of color who are concerned about the war. [...]

How Trump’s Rhetoric at Rallies Has Escalated

No major American presidential candidate has talked like he now does at his rallies — not Richard Nixon, not George Wallace, not even Donald Trump himself. [...]

Conservative MP Dan Poulter defects to Labour

The doctor told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg he could no longer look NHS colleagues and patients in the eye and stay as a Conservative. [...]

Yousaf rules out pact with Alba party to win confidence vote

Alex Salmond is said to want a deal to maximise pro-independence MPs and MSPs in return for support in a no confidence vote. [...]

Have Iran-Israel missile strikes changed the Middle East?

Political and military leaders are still absorbing the extraordinary exchange of fire, writes James Landale. [...]

Daughter's world 'turned upside down' after pub cellar death

Olwen Collier died from head injuries after falling into the cellar of a pub in south Wales. [...]

Co-op Live: How UK’s biggest indoor arena became butt of jokes

What was supposed to be a triumphant opening week for Manchester's Co-op Live has become a debacle. [...]

Hamas' armed wing has released a video showing two hostages in Gaza urging Israel to strike a deal. A meeting of the World Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia is expected [...]

Its auction price for the watch worn by the richest man aboard the Titanic, is the highest amount ever paid for a single item from the doomed liner. [...]

Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa had called for Lisbon to find ways to compensate its former colonies, including canceling debt. The government says it has not initiated any process [...]

Police say residential areas have been damaged in the US state of Nebraska, with several other states also impacted by tornadoes and cyclones. [...]

Four years ago, a coup plunged Myanmar into civil war, proliferating armed groups in a place already rife with ethnic divisions. With the country disintegrating, neighbors are alarmed. [...]

Gaza protestors picket White House correspondents dinner, as Biden ribs Trump

The war in Gaza spurred large protests outside a glitzy roast with President Joe Biden, journalists, politicians and celebrities Saturday but went all but unmentioned by participants inside. [...]

Harvey Weinstein hospitalized after his return to New York from upstate prison

Harvey Weinstein's lawyer said that the onetime movie mogul has been hospitalized for tests after his return to New York City following an appeals court ruling nullifying his 2020 rape [...]

Trump VP contender Kristi Noem responds to backlash over story about killing her dog

The Republican South Dakota governor details what she says was a tough decision to shoot an "untrainable" family dog in a forthcoming memoir. Animal rights advocates and Democrats decried the [...]

Bernie Sanders says Netanyahu is attacking campus protests to deflect war criticism

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized ongoing campus protests across the U.S. as antisemitic. The Vermont senator said it was an attempt to "deflect attention" from Israel's actions. [...]

Hamas releases video of a second American being held hostage in Gaza

Hamas has released a video showing two captives, one of them an American, as part of an effort to prove that the two men are still alive. It was the [...]

With Russian forces advancing on the battlefield, Ukrainian citizens are aiding their country’s defense by building drones at home and sending them to the front. [...]

Three-time PGA Tour winner Brendan Steele held off a fast finishing Louis Oosthuizen to win LIV Tour’s Adelaide tournament at The Grange Golf Club by one stoke [...]

Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit comes amid a push for a deal with Hamas, which released videos of three hostages, including of a dual U.S. citizen. [...]

Paul Reubens, who died Sunday, rose to fame with Pee-wee Herman, a delightfully deranged twist on Peter Pan, presaging our obsession with nostalgia and childhood fun. [...]

"Sound of Freedom," a low-budget film about child sex trafficking, almost topped the box office. But its star Jim Caviezel has linked it to the QAnon movement. [...]

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