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Outside OX1 Week 7 – Ghana passes anti-LGBTQ+ bill, France enshrines abortion, and controversy in Pakistan

by Emi Tanimoto, Patrick Maxwell, Louis Treasure, Eric Balonwu and Nick Marshall March 7, 2024March 7, 2024
Posted inGlobal Affairs

Outside OX1 Week 6 – Gaza vote, strained Poland-Ukraine relations, and Modi’s renewed Indian diplomacy

by Eric Balonwu, Louis Treasure, Emi Tanimoto, Patrick Maxwell and Nick Marshall February 26, 2024February 28, 2024
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Outside OX1 Week 5 – Navalny dies, Greece legalizes gay marriage, and protests in India

by Louis Treasure, Tiffany You, Emi Tanimoto and Nick Marshall February 19, 2024December 29, 2024
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Outside OX1 Week 4 – Putin interviewed, another Labor U-turn, and Messi stirs anger

by Emi Tanimoto, Louis Treasure and Nick Marshall February 15, 2024February 16, 2024
Posted inGlobal Affairs

Outside OX1 Week 3 –Red Sea crisis, Northern Ireland’s first nationalist leader, and Ukraine-born Miss Japan

by Emi Tanimoto, Louis Treasure and Nick Marshall February 8, 2024February 8, 2024
Posted inGlobal Affairs

Outside OX1 Week 2 – ICJ ruling on Gaza, Russian plane shot down, and UK-Canada beef talks abandoned

by Emi Tanimoto, Tiffany You, Eric Balonwu, Louis Treasure and Nick Marshall January 30, 2024January 30, 2024
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Outside OX1 Week 1 – Taiwan elects new president, Trump’s weighty victory, and Growing Rift in Southwest Asia

by Emi Tanimoto, Eric Balonwu, Tiffany You, Louis Treasure and Nick Marshall January 23, 2024February 8, 2024
Posted inGlobal Affairs

Outside OX1 Week 8 – Henry Kissinger dies and Sunak loses his marbles

by Ben Nolan, Becky Collett, Emi Tanimoto and Eleanor Luxton December 4, 2023December 4, 2023
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Outside OX1 Week 7 – A week of hard right hairdo’s

by Anya Trofimova, Ben Nolan, Emily Guerrero, Becky Collett, Emi Tanimoto and Lottie Tellyn November 26, 2023December 5, 2023
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Outside OX1 Week 6 – al-Shifa hospital evacuated and giant pandas return to China

by Ben Nolan, Anya Trofimova, Oliver Smith, Becky Collett, Oliver Edwardes, Emi Tanimoto, Eleanor Luxton and Lottie Tellyn November 19, 2023May 6, 2024

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