South Korean people watch a live TV report showing North Korea’s special announcement that it has successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at a station in Seoul, South Korea, 29 November 2017.
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The sea remains the least explored habitat on our blue planet.
International passengers at Ngurah Rai International Airport, Bali, Indonesia on November 29 th, 2017. Thousands of tourists were stranded and could not go home after Mt Agung volcano erupted.
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Until late November, Bali’s high economic dependence on tourism led its Tourism Board to dismiss the dangers of the Mount Agung volcano. This severely undermined the reputation of destination Bali..
Giving disabled people access to higher education would improve their social mobility.
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‘Volcano forensics’ involves a mixture of modern day monitoring and analysis of past eruptions. Geologists use volcanic rocks as a kind of time capsule to assess what happened previously.
Many of the Iranian dead in the Nov. 12 Iran earthquake lived in the Mehr Housing, state-built affordable apartments that crumbled when other buildings stayed up.
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On Nov. 12, a 7.3 magnitude quake killed some 500 and injured 7,000 along the Iran-Iraq border. This Kurdish area has also been crushed by war and, after a recent separatist vote, militarily attacked.
To the people of Bali, Mt Agung is not just a volcano. The “great mountain” holds spiritual power and reflects cultural and political unrest.
Mission schools were originally set up to protect Indigenous populations from white massacres and other violence related to colonialism.
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It’s still unclear whether Zimbabwe will manage an effective transition to participatory democracy and freedom. And the current signs are not encouraging.
The single greatest failure of current punditry is the refusal to recognise that context matters. A one-size-fits-all approach to solving Zimbabwe’s complex set of problems simply won’t help.
Swearing in Venezuela’s newly elected state governors.
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The unprecedented media interest in the first human heart transplant 50 years ago transformed many of the rules that governed the relationships between medicine and the media.
Zarina Sodha, from Lakhpath Kachchh, Gujarat (western India), a folk singer.
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Raffaello Pantucci explains what lone-actor terrorism is, why it’s effective and why we seem to be seeing more attacks that aren’t clearly connected to terror networks in this long-form comic explainer.
Professor in Practice on Environmental Innovation, School of Social and Environmental Sustainability, University of Glasgow, UK, National University of Singapore