Over 13 million girls in Pakistan have never been to school. That difficult situation is explained by a variety of factors: prejudice against girls becoming educated, the need for children to work to support a family in poverty, and child marriages (11 percent of girls are married before the age of 15). We do know that one of the most important variables in a policy to eradicate poverty is to educate girls and young women. Fortunately, there are groups in Pakistan that are working hard to change the situation.
Japan is spending a considerable amount of money to reinforce its territorial claims to the island called Okinotorishima in the East China Sea. China has not contested the claim, but insists that the island does not satisfy the minimum requirements of the law of the sea to be used as the basis for a territorial claim. Nonetheless, the renewed Japanese activity to reinforce its presence on the island will undoubtedly provoke a Chinese response.
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The current election cycle in the US has left a number of observers from abroad somewhat dumbfounded and horrified. The rhetoric of the campaigns are directed toward American audiences, but non-Americans hear the rhetoric as well. There is a sense when one reads international newspapers that the current elections are not an aberration, but rather an unvarnished window into some of the worst characteristics of American politics and culture. And, no doubt, Donald Trump is the primary villain in this point of view.
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