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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Japanese government have announced that the Tokyo Olympic games will start on July 23. However, with only a few weeks remaining, anti-Olympic sentiments are soaring; meanwhile, with the arrival of tens of thousands of athletes and journalists from mo
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Berhane Weldegebriel Staff Reporter
2021.06.28 23:31
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The prominent Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny made his first court appearance on April 29, following his weeks-long hunger strike protesting the lack of adequate medical care and treatment. The famous Kremlin critic appeared in court to appeal a lawsuit accusing him of defaming a Russian WW
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Berhane Weldegebriel Staff Reporter
2021.05.22 17:37
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On March 16, a series of mass shootings in Atlanta tragically killed eight people, six of whom were Asian women. The incident sparked a wave of outrage and attention to the rise of violence against people of Asian ancestry, ranging from verbal attacks to physical assault, since the outbreak of COVID
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Hanbit Lee Head of International Division
2021.04.17 22:04
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On September 27, an exchange of military attacks erupted between former Soviet republics Armenia and Azerbaijan, resulting in at least 23 fatalities and an intensified state of emergency in both countries. The clashes occurred over the landlocked region of Nagorno-Karabakh, a highly-contested territ
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Sean Tristan De Guzman Head of International Divis
2020.10.18 02:18
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The ongoing coronavirus crisis has led to the emergence of several unconventional social behaviors. While many of these are harmless and even amusing — such as the rise in binge shopping or the sudden interest of many in home baking — others have brought grave consequences. The latter include the sw
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Zunnoor Awan Staff Reporter
2020.09.25 19:46
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Recently, all attention has been on the heart-wrenching murder of George Floyd under the hands of a Minneapolis ex-police officer. Videos of the officer kneeling on the neck of the unarmed black man for more than eight minutes — even after he was dead — circulated on social media, spurring outrage f
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Berhane Weldegebriel Staff Reporter
2020.06.23 01:47
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Thousands of women leave their homes each year to become domestic workers in the Middle East. In the last two decades, many — most of them coming from Southeast Asia and Africa — have headed to countries such as Lebanon, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia in the hopes of making a decent living to support thei
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Berhane Weldegebriel Staff Reporter
2020.05.26 21:58
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In most cultures, religious institutions play a central role in everyday life. People seek guidance from their religious groups on many matters, however novel or complicated, to the extent that some regard religious advice more highly than the instruction of scientists and government officials. Ther
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Zunnoor Awan Junior Staff Reporter
2020.04.30 21:49
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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is infamous for suppressing any public freedoms that threaten its political control, marked by mass surveillance and “re-education camps” in Xinjiang and Tibet. Preceded by such a poor record on freedom of expression, the CCP’s censorship has reached a new low in th
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Dong Min Kim Staff Reporter
2020.04.30 21:49
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The first months of this new decade have been a whirlwind of catastrophic events. A series of massive bushfires ravaged several regions of Australia before torrential rains swept through and reduced their severity. The assassination of Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani sparked short-lived tens
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Sean Tristan De Guzman Head of International Divis
2020.04.02 21:35
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Our passion for writing is the main reason why we, reporters of The KAIST Herald, publish the school newspaper. We work hard for our publication, but the busy environment that we live in sometimes hinders us from maintaining it as a priority. Swamped with coursework and trying to keep a personal lif
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Berhane Weldegebriel Staff Reporter
2020.04.02 21:35
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Thirty years ago, crowds of Romanians filled the Palace Square in Bucharest where Nicolae Ceaușescu, a communist dictator who ruled Romania since 1965, was going to address the nation. Ceaușescu planned to show that he still had power over the country despite massive protests against the government,
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Duman Kuandyk Staff Reporter
2019.12.20 22:57
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If the Tables TurnedBy Wednesday afternoon, my hands are stained red. I’ve been serving as a Korean class TA this semester, and it’s an endless stream of grading quizzes and workbooks. The students, some conducting graduate-level studies far beyond my capabilities in science and engineering, struggl
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J. H. Lee, J. Park, B. Weldegebriel
2019.11.27 17:13
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51.9 percent. That’s the proportion of people in the UK who voted to leave the European Union (EU) back in the summer of 2016. The barest two percent over the halfway mark threw the country into the rough seas of political turmoil, a storm from which the nation is yet to emerge. If it ever does, the battering winds of international disagreement and public dissatisfaction are ensuring it will never be the same.
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Ada Carpenter Assistant Editor
2019.06.19 16:19
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This year’s carbon dioxide emissions have set a new record in history. Humanity’s actions have resulted in the increase of CO2 levels to 415 parts per million (ppm).
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Duman Kuandyk Head of International Division
2019.06.19 16:16
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It’s been almost a month since flames destroyed the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, but the heat of the fundraising discussions lingers on.
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Duman Kuandyk Head of International Division
2019.05.24 21:45
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Karl Marx once said that history repeats itself twice — the first time as a tragedy, and the second time as a farce. Looking at the current state of global politics, one can say that we are well past the second stage in the absurd play of politicians. Tired of electing the same faces from the same establishments, people turn to outsiders in a desperate attempt to witness some change. These desperate attempts sometimes lead to bizarre consequences that may be seen as a joke that went too far.
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Duman Kuandyk Head of International Division
2019.04.25 23:59
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International Women’s Day continues to be a platform that promotes gender equality as well as one that celebrates the economic, social, and professional accomplishments of women.
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Berhane Weldegebriel Junior Staff Reporter
2019.03.25 23:11
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On November 4, 2018, blue-red-green flags were waving on the streets of New Caledonia. These flags symbolized the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front, a movement supporting the independence of the island nation.
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Duman Kuandyk Head of International Division
2019.03.25 22:45
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As e-learning encourages productivity and efficiency, the digitization of education will never cease and soon, it will become a rival to the traditional education systems.
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Joon Ha Kim Junior Staff Reporter
2018.09.25 20:45