Tolerance develops when empathy is encouraged, because it allows a child – or adult – to enter the shoes of another.
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With vast numbers of people migrating around the world, understanding how racial tolerance is created – and encouraging more of it – is more important than ever.
Your laptop needs you!
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Cyberwarfare may be of growing importance, but some foes must be tackled with more low-tech weapons.
Cut from a different cloth: outgoing Ewa Kopacz (left) welcomes successor Beata Szydło into office.
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With hardliners taking charge of the government and presidency in Warsaw, the migrant rhetoric is looking worrying. But how much will change in practice?
Pedestrians walk across the Mexican border.
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Like France, the US faces the possibility that ISIS will attack an American city sooner or later.
This is the business end of how investigations are solved.
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Paris police were able to use information found on a phone, but what details can be found that could tackle future attacks?
Anonymous can do more harm than good in its war on Islamic State.
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The Anonymous hacktivist group engaged in an online war against Islamic State may be doing more harm than good.
Police stand guard in Place de la Republique, Paris, November 15 2015.
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Compared to 9/11, the recent attacks by ISIS were coordinated, but not costly.
Blocking IS one click at a time?
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Anonymous strives to bring down IS propaganda before it reaches the masses.
Anonymous wants to make sure militant Islamist propaganda video, like this being filmed in Syria, doesn’t make it online.
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ISIS uses the internet, especially social media, to propagandize and recruit. Members of hacker group Anonymous have turned their sights on these accounts.
Displaced residents from the Yazidi sect, fleeing ISIS forces in Sinjar, August 11 2014.
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Recent talks in Vienna may help end the Syrian civil war, but diplomacy will not eliminate ISIS.
Assad meets French delegates in Damascus following the Paris atrocities.
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The Paris atrocities came just as Assad’s military position was improving. Can the dictator harness international fury at Islamic State to strengthen his position in Syria?
In condemning terrorist attacks in Paris, French president Francois Hollande (center) used the term Da'ish to refer to Islamic State, a deliberate naming change.
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The French term for ISIS – known as Da'ish or Daesh – has gathered more interest in the wake of the Paris attacks. Here’s why this battle of naming matters.
In the name of what?
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The terrorists haven’t attacked us because of our colour or religion, they want to destroy our way of life.
A patrol in front of Notre Dame November 15.
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The answer is complex. But part of it lies in the fact that French society is still uncomfortable with its diversity.
At prayer in Paris.
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A Muslim scholar proposes the discussion of an alternative interpretation of Sharia that will challenge ISIS’ claims to Islamic legitimacy.
There has been a global outpouring of grief and support for Parisians after the terror attacks in the city.
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In the next few weeks we may see a resurgence of rhetoric calling for more resources to fight the War on Terror following the Paris attacks. Islamophobia may take deeper root in Europe as a whole.
The Paris attacks were a ghastly media spectacular. What will be the broader historical significance in Europe and further afield?
French police stand guard outside the national soccer stadium
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Under pressure in the Middle East, ISIS is turning to terrorism in Europe with a new set of predictable goals.
The man thought to be Mohammed Emwazi.
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US and UK claim the man who bragged about decapitating western hostages has probably been killed in an airstrike.
Rouhani’s hand grows stronger thanks to Iran’s cooperation with Russia.
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Russia’s stepped-up role in Syria is likely to bolster Iran and the anti-Western opposition in Iraq.