Relief aid and prayers have been sent to the City of Lights, uplifting a broken city. Despite the terror, the people of Paris wake up every morning to face the challenges of coping with such a tragedy. The only way they can move forward is by hoping that safety and peace will soon return to their city.

There are a lot of works to be done to make India a manufacturing hub like China, Japan or South Korea. But there is a wide gap between Prime Minister Modi’s promises and plans and their implementations has blurred the ‘Make in India’ concept into highly political project.

Earlier this year, the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, launched a campaign called ‘Save Girl Child, Educate Girl Child’ to combat the practice of sex-selective abortions.

The practice of FGM has slowly been banned in different countries as the years have gone by. However, weak enforcement of these laws has led it to still being practiced.

The recent Paris attacks have derailed the global quarrel about the Syrian refugee crisis.  The discussion no longer focuses on who should pay the economic or logistical prices of admitting the refugees, but on the possibility of jihadists sneaking into foreign countries

By focusing on the relationship between the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) infrastructure development projects and regional integration in Africa, we see that many of these projects, such as the Enugu-Bamenda Road Project, have integrated the region beyond economical means.

What happened to the supposedly extreme precision of drone strikes? Where exactly is the military accuracy in almost 20,000 civilian deaths in Afghanistan since 2009? How do we justify loss of civilian lives as collateral damage? Why are we still in Afghanistan?

If economists almost unanimously support free trade, why do Republican and Democratic politicians contest the topic so vehemently? By blaming growing American inequality on free trade agreements, such as the TPP, politicians effectively blame national failures to re-train workers for the twenty-first century onto exogenous actors. In the process, while the political gains among the public may be vast, the diplomatic and economic losses are far more problematic.

With such a strong drive toward service, the United States government and citizens should be open and willing to welcome Syrian refugees.

COOL requires that all meat products sold in America be labeled where the livestock was born, raised, and slaughtered.  As a result of an alleged decrease in beef and pork imports by the U.S., Canada and Mexico challenged COOL laws in the WTO, claiming COOL is a barrier to trade which violates the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). 

As tens of thousands of refugees from war-torn Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan stream across the borders into Europe, they are straining fragile economies and social service systems. More troubling, though, is that this influx appears to be provoking the kind of xenophobia experienced before World War II, when Jews became the convenient scapegoat for all Europe’s economic and political woes.