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It is the oldest international environmental agreement and one of the few with real teeth, because it can impose trade sanctions for non-compliance – and because virtually all countries have joined.
This poses particular problems for France and Britain, two of Europe's oldest nation-states which have still not fully adjusted, fifty years on, to the loss of their empires.
Meanwhile, the oldest dispute in the region – the subject of a decades-long peace process that moves nowhere – continues to fester and worsen in Palestine and Israel.
Iran, home to one of the world’s oldest continuous civilizations, may be willing to end decades of hostility – an outcome that would have a profound influence on the wider Middle East.
It is time to launch concerted global efforts to protect some of the oldest, most vulnerable – and most valuable – species in our seas.
The risks were high: in a group of elderly patients who had the procedure, the oldest of whom was 77, 18% died while hospitalized.
But does their use make sense for the oldest old, especially when they are invasive and costly?
However, it is understandable that plans under current discussion envision focusing first on the youngest and oldest workers.
It is one of the oldest states in the broader Middle East, with a deep culture.
The Case for Legalizing Sex WorkPRINCETON – Sex work is, as the saying goes, the world’s oldest profession – except that the saying uses “prostitution” instead of “sex work.”
One of the oldest Greek myths, the story of Pandora was first recorded more than 2,500 years ago, in the time of Homer.
Arcelor, one of the oldest steel manufacturers in the world, depends very little on the highly speculative world market for raw steel, and its workforce is (on average) highly qualified and stable.
Leprosy is one of the world’s oldest diseases.
They can be seen almost everywhere, including in the world’s oldest existing democracy, namely the United States.
At issue is the oldest debate in the social sciences.
However hasty these judgments may end up being, it certainly seems that the region’s oldest and last political-military organization is, at long last, on the brink of defeat.
To be sure, the boundaries of acceptable public discourse have been changing globally: Trump has shown that in the world’s oldest democracy, and people like Swamy exemplify it in the world’s largest.
For too long, the world’s oldest and largest democracies have failed to fulfill the promise of their relationship.
Already, Trump has made his three oldest children – who are supposed to run his business during his presidency – key players in his campaign and transition.
Never before has an American presidential inauguration been met with so many hosannas from the United States’ oldest foe, Russia, and with such nervous anguish from its closest allies.
And this time, the financial mechanisms involved are not highly complex structured financial products, but one of the oldest financial instruments in the world: government bonds.
Although many of the panels focused on the technological marvels of the near future, others highlighted the world's inability to address one of humanity’s oldest problems: how to feed, house, and succor large populations driven by conflict from their homes and countries.
Small clinics typically refer their oldest patients to the closest big hospital, which is often many miles away.
The integrity of any society can be judged by how well it treats its youngest and oldest members.
As light pollution covers more of the planet, we are losing one of our oldest connections to nature: the ancient ability to gaze at the stars.
Europe, indeed, has resurrected some of the oldest and most exclusionary of its stigmas of isolation - not just those against Islam but also against the countries of Orthodox Christianity.
The World According to Trump and XiNEW DELHI – The world’s leading democracy, the United States, is looking increasingly like the world’s biggest and oldest surviving autocracy, China.
So it should come as no surprise that the crisis of liberal democracy that many of its oldest practitioners currently are experiencing is a reflection of the stress under which the nation-state finds itself.
India’s Jewel in the CrownNEW DELHI – India’s Solicitor-General, Ranjit Kumar, recently declared that India would not seek the return of the Kohinoor diamond – one of the world’s oldest and most valuable – from the British, to whom India had “gifted” it.
To feed a rapidly changing world, we must use new technology to re-imagine the oldest form of risk mitigation: community.
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