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Category: Global Affairs

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On the afternoon of February 3, 2021, Governor of Gyeonggi Province Lee Jae-myung celebrated the 1st Korean Sign Language Day in the reception room of the Gyeonggi Provincial Government.
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What’s Next for Lee Jae-Myung and South Korea?

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Outside OX1 Week 5: Chagos, Myanmar and Venezuela

by Daniel Burns, Isolde Sellin and Devika Manish Kumar May 31, 2025May 31, 2025
ARAWA, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea (June 30, 2015) A woman waits her turn at the Pacific Partnership community health engagement in Arawa, Papua New Guinea. The hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) is in Papua New Guinea for its second mission port of PP15. Pacific Partnership is in its tenth iteration and is the largest annual multilateral humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. While training for crisis conditions, Pacific Partnership missions to date have provided real world medical care to approximately 270,000 patients and veterinary services to more than 38,000 animals. Critical infrastructure development has been supported in host nations during more than 180 engineering projects. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Greg Badger/Released)
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Bougainville: A Long Wait for Independence Continues

by Devika Manish Kumar May 29, 2025May 29, 2025
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How Space Tourism is Fuelling the Future of Space Exploration 

by Saskia Maini May 26, 2025May 26, 2025
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Outside OX1 Week 4: Israel, Trump and Africa

by Daniel Burns, Tom Barrett and Elana Roberts May 25, 2025May 26, 2025
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Feeling ‘Maximum Pressure’: Trump’s Sanctions on Iran and the Iran-U.S. Nuclear Talks

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