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Malala Yousafzai is one of the most recognizable and unimpeachable figures on the world stage – the 15 year-old Pakistani girl who was shot in the face in 2012 by a Taliban gunman for having the temerity to encourage girls to go to school. She survived – thanks to some intensive medical care in the UK – wrote a book, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 and
Life is full of tough decisions, and Anne-Marie Slaughter spoke about a wide variety of them – how to raise two young sons while holding down a hectic high-profile job at the State Department, how to handle the war in Syria, and what to do with President Putin of Russia.
'There is going to be significant risk,' said leading sports economist Andrew Zimbalist of Los Angeles's bid for the 2024 Olympics. Zimbalist spoke to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council at a breakfast on October 8th and talked about the escalating costs of hosting the Olympics, corruption within the IOC, and what it will take for Los Angeles to win the bid.
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'I'm here to talk about Ghana's rise,' said President of Ghana John Mahama to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council on Thursday, October 1st. 'To your ears that might sound like a simple 15 minute speech,' he said. 'To my ears it's like being asked to provide a detailed synopsis of war and peace…
The war in Syria and the refugee crisis it has caused is 'the crisis of the century' according to Luciano Calestini, and eclipses Afghanistan, Iraq and the Congo. 'What makes this conflict different from all the others,' said Calestini, the deputy head of UNICEF in Beirut, Lebanon, and a 17-year veteran of humanitarian crises around the world, 'is that there is no process in sight for negotiation, no table that people are sitting around'.
Terrorists have become more violent and lethal over the past four decades because many are now motivated by religious absolutism and not by political objectives, according to Brian Jenkins.
Senator Dianne Feinstein said 'there is no better deal' on the Iran nuclear issue, called Edward Snowden's actions a 'form of espionage' that put American lives at risk, and said that after the recent release of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on torture, 'I don't think this will ever, ever happen again'
Japan is deeply conflicted over how to deal with China: Japanese are nervous about China's military build-up in the region, particularly in the South China Sea, but at the same time Tokyo cannot afford to jeopardize the growing trade relationship between the two countries, according to Hiroshi Hoshi of The Asahi Shimbun newspaper.
The turmoil in the Chinese stock market and the Beijing government's shaky response is just a speedbump – albeit maybe a 'long speedbump' – and China's economy will continue to grow
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