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May 19, 2006
Elections and Voting
Cyprus’ Elections
Cyprus’ parliamentary elections are the first since the 2004 referendum on Kofi Annan’s plan for reunification was voted down, and the first since the country’s accession to the EU that same year. Th…
June 4, 2015
Saudi Arabia
A New Church in the Emirates
This week it was announced that a second Catholic church has been completed in Abu Dhabi and will be inaugurated with a mass on June 11. The first, St. Joseph’s Cathedral, was donated by the ruling f…
July 15, 2020
South Korea
Remembering General Paik Sun-yup
Without Paik’s herculean effort, South Korea as we know it today—a vibrant, capitalist, and liberal democracy—wouldn’t exist.
April 15, 2022
Philippines
A Marcos Presidency Will Be Bad News for the Philippines’ Democracy
Although the actual election isn’t for another six weeks, current polling suggests Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is all but a lock to succeed Rodrigo Duterte as the Philippines’ next president. Marcos, a form…
January 9, 2019
Middle East and North Africa
Abbas Celebrates 14th Anniversary of His Four-Year Term
On January 9, 2005—exactly 14 years ago today—Mahmoud Abbas was elected president of the Palestinian Authority. For a four-year term. Today Abbas begins serving the fifteenth year of his four-year…