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09/11/2019

Welcome back IA enthusiasts! The year may be just beginning for the LC community but the US-Russia espionage saga has been occurring for nearly 70 years. Click on this article below to learn more about this enduring affair...

Oleg Smolenkov hadn’t been seen after he went on holiday in 2017, but Russian authorities concluded he had fled abroad

04/26/2019

Happy Friday! As the year is wrapping up, take a break from paper-writing and studying for exams to read why and how Australia plans to kill 2 million feral cats by 2020:

They're cute, they're fluffy, and they're public enemy number one in Australia.

04/04/2019

Struggling to keep up with the twists and turns of Brexit? Read an analysis of the current state of events here:

A lot happened in Brexit world on Wednesday.

03/19/2019

Students from over 100 different countries and every single continent participated in the Youth Strike 4 Climate this past Friday. Watch some of the footage from around the world here: https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2019/03/15/global-climate-change-strike-greta-thunberg-sd-orig.cnn

And meet a few of the student organizers here: https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/14/world/global-climate-strike-teenagers-school-walkout-greta-thunberg-intl/index.html

Students from every continent rallied for , a movement 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg started to protest climate inaction

03/11/2019

An Ethiopian commercial flight on a Boeing airplane crashed yesterday, resulting in 157 deaths and the grounding of some other planes of the same model. Read all the details and receive live updates here:

The latest on the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing 737 Max 8.

02/22/2019

Trade talks between the U.S. and China continue with a looming deadline to reach a deal. Have a great weekend and read all about it here!

As a March deadline approaches, American negotiators are struggling with how to ensure China, which has reneged on promises to past administrations, follows through on any agreement.

02/01/2019

The United States is all set to withdraw from a treaty with Russia dating back to the Cold War. Read all about it here:

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States announced Friday that it was pulling out of a landmark nuclear arms control treaty with Russia, accusing Moscow of violating the Cold War-era pact with "impunity" by continuing to develop banned missiles. President Donald Trump said Russia has been secretly deve...

01/23/2019

Welcome back, Pios! We hope that you had a restful break and are ready for the new semester. Take a look at this Washington Post article describing three major ways the government shutdown is impacting the rest of the world:

It isn't just federal workers inside the country who will feel it.

12/07/2018

Did you know that all LC students and faculty now have unlimited online access to the New York times (with an .edu email)? Test it out by reading this NYT article regarding an arrest of a top executive at a Chinese company and the implications on US-China relations.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/us/politics/huawei-meng-china-iran.html?module=inline

The arrest of Meng Wanzhou, an executive at the Chinese company Huawei, could imperil trade talks. But it is part of the Trump administration’s efforts to contain China and Iran.

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