JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Nelson Mandela is known by many epithets: freedom fighter, anti-apartheid hero, global icon. But two years after his death, a heated debate has emerged in South Africa that questions part of this towering legacy: was Mandela a sellout? To some this might seem a shocking, even taboo sentiment. Here in South Africa…
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Talking Again: North and South Korea Hold Talks In Effort To Boost Ties
North and South Korea have held high-level talks at a North Korean border town, aiming to ease tensions and improve ties that degenerated after a military standoff in August. Hwang Boo-gi, South Korea’s vice unification minister, met his North Korean counterpart on Friday at the jointly run industrial park just over the border in the North’s… Read More
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This Hilarious Video Makes A Pretty Important Point About Voting
Hey Americans, here’s something that we can be happy be about. It turns out that we aren’t the only wealthy democracy that has a hard time getting young people to show up to the polls and vote.
In Canada, youth rights activists are trying to drum up excitement for the next general election, which takes place on October 19.
At stake is the future of the country, as the Conservative Party hopes to maintain their 10 year lock on power.
During the last general election in 2011, less than 39 percent of young people aged 18 to 24 voted. At the same time however, 75 percent of people aged 65 to 74 voted in the race.
The group VoteSavvy thinks those numbers are all wrong and set out to dramatically increase youth turnout for the 2015 election.
They released this funny video explaining why young people shouldn’t let their parents make all important decisions in their lives, including in the dating and political spheres.
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Climate Change Conference End Delayed As Hopes Of Agreement Rise
Paris, France – It was always an optimistic call to get a global climate change agreement in the can by a firm 6pm deadline on Friday and so it proved. Twelve hours before the deadline on Friday, Laurent Fabius, the French foreign minister and president of COP21, announced that the international conference in Paris would indeed… Read More
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