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That would be a tragedy of historic proportions, which only German leadership can prevent.
As the International Organization for Migration stated shortly after the Lampedusa tragedy, implementation of enhanced border controls “did not have sufficient impact or decrease the number of arrivals to the South of Europe in the long run.
His presidency is just the latest act in a long-running political tragedy.
The tragedy of Korea is that no one really wishes to change the status quo: China wants to keep North Korea as a buffer state, and fears millions of refugees in the event of a North Korean collapse; the South Koreans could never afford to absorb North Korea in the way that West Germany absorbed the broken German Democratic Republic; and neither Japan nor the US would relish paying to clean up after a North Korean implosion, either.
But data alone cannot describe the scale of this human tragedy.
It is time to end the silence that makes all of us complicit in our generation’s greatest tragedy.
Dividing Iraq into separate Sunni and Shia states, for example, could easily result in Mesopotamia’s version of the Indian subcontinent’s tragedy in 1947, when millions of people died fleeing to Pakistan or India after the partition.
But the fall of Bo and his family hardly rises to the level of Shakespearean tragedy.
Their tragedy stands as a profound indictment of the CCP’s rule, because no family is safe when governments are not subject to the rule of law.
The Greek Tragedy, Act IICHICAGO – A Greek tragedy is typically composed of three acts.
The real tragedy has still to unfold.
The second act of the Greek tragedy will cast desperate Greeks against angry and disenchanted Europeans elsewhere.
This remains the crucial truth; the rest follows as tragedy.
Through tricks and threats Iraq's fallen dictatorship largely succeeded in keeping this tragedy under cover.
Just as Hitler was driven by the desire to reverse the humiliating terms of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended WWI, Putin is focused on reversing the Soviet Union’s dismemberment, which he has called “the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the twentieth century.”
It is difficult to overstate the tragedy that this trend represents.
Yet none of this diminishes the tragedy that these civilian casualties represent.
His tragedy is ultimately a personal one.
That is a tragedy.
Prompted by the Lockerbie tragedy, Security Council sanctions adopted in 1992 and 1993 changed the dynamic.
We had hoped that the tragedy, which killed more than 1,100 workers – the deadliest accident in the industry’s history – would have brought meaningful change to a business long left to its own devices.
But the lessons from the 2013 tragedy at Rana Plaza are more complicated than much of the international media make them out to be.
By defending contested monuments and asserting that “both sides” were to blame in the Charlottesville tragedy, Trump is signaling his predominantly white support base that he will fight for their rights as a “threatened majority.”
But the Jewish state that emerged, phoenix-like, from the ashes of the greatest tragedy in modern Jewish history, is an impressive success story.
I thought it necessary to remind those in Romania who did not know, or who wanted to forget, about the tragedy to which the nationalist option once led.
With both sides ignoring the far-reaching implications of Donald Trump’s election as US president – namely, the decline of the liberal world order – the process seems set to produce a tragedy for the United Kingdom and the European Union alike.
And that could well be the greatest tragedy of all.
From Fukushima to DisarmamentSYDNEY – Months after the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, the ongoing nuclear disaster at Fukushima compounds the humanitarian tragedy and impedes recovery.
None of today’s leaders expected to face a human tragedy on the scale of what we now see in the Mediterranean and across Europe.
This is a tragedy in the making, because the gains available from what has already been agreed upon in the negotiations are considerable, and would provide a major boost to the global economy.
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