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Towards pluriversal diplomacy: exploring the figure of the diplomat through First Nations encounters
ABSTRACT This paper responds to the 2023 special edition of this journal on Indigenous Diplomacy, taking seriously its provocation that Indigenous Diplomacy has the potential to disrupt dominant understandings of diplomacy as a formalised and state-based practice. We argue that this disruption requires making visible the Westphalian foundations of IR that render alternative forms of political relation not simply different, but illegible.
FBI Case Sheds New Light on Sikh Activist’s Killing
In November, Bloomberg Businessweek senior reporter Matthew Campbell wrote a feature story about crimes that brought India, the US and Canada to a diplomatic crisis. In today’s newsletter, he has an update on a gang that was allegedly involved.
FBI Case Sheds New Light on Sikh Activist’s Killing
Celebrity 2 hours ago After Pushing Wife Off Mile-High Cliff, Cheating Pastor Told Teenage Mistress He Needed an Open Relationship (Exclusive) People - Chris Spargo • 2h David Vander Meer once told his teenage mistress that he could only be with her if his wife was dead. That day came about a year later, when David pushed his 29-year-old wife Bernadette Vander Meer to her death off of Angels Landing, a mile-high rock formation in Zion National Park. His mistress soon …
Chasing the Man Who Stole the Gods
Businessweek | The Big Take Chasing the Man Who Stole the Gods At Koh Ker, a heavily looted temple complex in Cambodia.
Fake Police Stations and Prisonlike Cells: Inside a Cambodian Scam Complex
Photographer: Valeria Mongelli/Bloomberg (Bloomberg Businessweek) -- By now the damage wrought by the global cyberscam industry is well understood.
Fake Police Stations and Prisonlike Cells: Inside a Cambodian Scam Complex
2 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) — Since starting a war with Iran caused oil and gasoline prices to spike, President Donald Trump has pivoted from a focus on keeping energy prices low to painting high oil prices as a positive. The about-face comes as Trump’s team has struggled to offer a clear plan for opening up …
Epstein Files Contain a Big Clue About Cambodia’s Missing Masterpieces
Photographer: Agnes Dherbeys/The New York Times/Redux (Bloomberg Businessweek) -- For more than a decade, investigators for the US and Cambodian governments have been trying to trace the whereabouts of ancient sculptures stolen from the Southeast...
Epstein Files Contain a Big Clue About Cambodia’s Missing Masterpieces
The attorney general’s testimony before Congress revealed what a farce this is. Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, …
Why Myanmar’s Sham Election Still Matters
It was a busy weekend for news in the US.
The Attacks on Sikh Separatists That Rocked India’s Relations With the West
The inside story of how two alleged murder plots brought India, the US and Canada to a diplomatic crisis. The lawyer was being watched.
Crime, Scammers Find Haven in Asia’s Golden Triangle
Listen: Crime, Scammers Find Haven in Asia’s Golden Triangle Businessweek | The Big Take A Chinese businessman persuaded officials to establish a special economic zone in a remote part of Laos. The gamblers arrived first. Then came the drug runners and human traffickers. The Golden Triangle, the mountainous region where the borders of Laos, Myanmar and Thailand meet, is wild and remote, distant in every sense of the word from the centers of all three countries.
New York’s Met Museum to Return Looted Antiquities to Cambodia
(Bloomberg) -- New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art agreed with the Department of Justice to return more than a dozen antiquities to Cambodia, a major step in a decade-long investigation into the theft and trafficking of artifacts from the Southeast Asian country. The pieces being returned “were tied directly to illicit trafficking,” Damian Williams, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement on Friday.
New York’s Met Museum to Return Looted Antiquities to Cambodia
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art agreed with the Department of Justice to return more than a dozen antiquities to Cambodia, a major step in a decade-long investigation into the theft and trafficking of artifacts from the Southeast Asian country.
Celebrity Hotspot Cipriani Seeks €500 Million for Global Push
Cipriani, the operator of celebrity-packed restaurants and members’ clubs, is seeking to raise as much as €500 million ($526 million) for its global expansion, people with knowledge of the matter said. The company’s new Cipriani Hospitality Fund will invest in iconic buildings in locations including Dubai, Singapore, Madrid, Geneva and Tokyo, according to an investor presentation seen by Bloomberg News.
Celebrity Hotspot Cipriani Seeks €500 Million for Global Push
Casa Cipriani in New York City.Photographer: Michael Ostuni/Getty Images Cipriani, the operator of celebrity-packed restaurants and members’ clubs, is seeking to raise as much as €500 million ($526 million) for its global expansion, people with...
How Hardeep Singh Nijjar Assassination Led to Canada-India Crisis
Plus: It’s the Equality Issue with stories about US child care and righting injustices for the Chagossian people Welcome to Bw Daily, the Bloomberg Businessweek newsletter, where we’ll bring you interesting voices, great reporting and the magazine’s usual charm every weekday. Let us know what you think by emailing our editor here! If this has been forwarded to you, click here to sign up. Charanjit Singh Sujjon was playing soccer when he heard the gunshots.
India-Canada Fraying Ties: How Sikh Leader’s Killing Sparked Crisis
How the killing of a Sikh activist exploded into a stunning confrontation—and turned into a test for a rising superpower.
India-Canada Fraying Ties: How Sikh Leader’s Killing Sparked Crisis
Charanjit Singh Sujjon was playing soccer when he heard the gunshots. At first Sujjon, 50, thought someone was setting off firecrackers next to Kabaddi Park, a green space in Surrey, British Columbia, just outside Vancouver.
Huskies ranked No. 10 in USCHO Preseason Poll
DCU/USCHO Poll HOUGHTON, Mich. – The Michigan Tech hockey team is ranked No. 10 in the Preseason DCU/USCHO.com Top 20 poll which was released Monday (Sept. 25). Michigan Tech's 2023-24 season begins with the US Hockey HOF Game at No. 17 Minnesota Duluth on October 7 followed by back-to-back home nonconference weekends against Alaska and Wisconsin which also both received votes in the national preseason poll.
UH forensic anthropologist assists in identifying Maui fire victims
Robert Mann has helped in the recovery of some of the largest disasters around the world from 9/11 to the tsunami in the Indian Ocean. The professor of anatomy and pathology at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) has now taken on assisting with the recovery efforts on Maui, where the worst wildfire in more than a century has left more than 100 people dead, and 800—1,000 people missing.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Kim Kardashian Grilled for 1MDB Secrets, FBI Documents Show
Dead in the Water: How a Flailing Supertanker Illustrates The Story of Modern Shipping
A supertanker in trouble is a singular event. It requires the attention of naval fleets, coast guards, international marine agencies, and governments across the immediate region, as well as in the homelands of its crew. That’s not to mention those with a financial interest: the shipowners, cargo owners, bankers, and insurers backing the voyage, and a diffuse crowd of brokers, lawyers, traders, agents, and investors from London to New York, Dubai, and Singapore.
Dead in the Water: Murder and Fraud in the World’s Most Secretive Industry
At 3am on 6 July 2011, the USS Philippine Sea, on piracy patrol in the Gulf of Aden, received a radio distress message: ‘Coalition warship, coalition warship, this is Brillante Virtuoso. We are under attack.’ There were pirates on board and the ship was on fire. After abandoning ship, the tanker’s mainly Filipino crew, along with their packed suitcases, were picked up by the US cruiser from a large lifeboat.
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Boosting SMEs and driving youth employment - can't have one without the other
Although the proof is still in the pudding, this is a step in the right direction given that small businesses are the backbone of the economy and youth unemployment is one of South Africa’s biggest and most pressing problems. To ensure that the proposed measures have the desired outcome of small business development and youth employment creation, it is necessary that all stakeholders are involved, from government agencies to private sector players and educational institutions.
How Two Ex-Cops Cracked a $100 Million Maritime Mystery
Richard Veale and Michael Conner flew from London to Athens a few days before their meeting with X-Ray. The two private investigators needed time to assess what they were walking into. X-Ray had come forward a few months earlier, in the spring of 2016, claiming to have critical information about the Brillante Virtuoso case, one of the strangest episodes of high-seas piracy that anyone in the shipping industry could remember. Veale and Conner were instantly suspicious.
More than 40 vehicles were rifled through
By Rob Polansky and Matthew Campbell Click here for updates on this story WOLCOTT, Connecticut (WFSB) — Wolcott police reported that 41 vehicles were either broken into or simply entered through unlocked doors on Thursday night. The Wolcott Police Department posted to social media that numerous items were stolen from a total of 41 vehicles. “This occurred mostly in the Wolfs Hill Rd. elderly complex, also in the Brooks Hill Rd., [and] Munson Rd. area,” police said in a Facebook post.
The Lottery Winners Give Us Something To Leave The House For
You might not have heard of The Lottery Winners, and that’s OK. Pretty soon though, if they carry on down their current path, stardom beckons. This, their sophomore effort Something To Leave the House For, brings them closer than ever to that stardom. My path to Something to Leave the House For was quite a long and enjoyable one. I first heard The Lottery Winners on one of the smaller stages at the amazing summer festival Kendal Calling.
Tesla’s Fall From Grace in China Shows Perils of Betting on Beijing
Huang Jiaxue, a businessman in Wenzhou in eastern China, was thrilled when he got his Tesla Model 3 late last year. The car was good-looking, environmentally friendly, and even domestically built, having rolled off the line at California-based Tesla Inc.’s vast factory in Shanghai. But in May he sold it, recouping only about 75% of the 249,900 yuan ($38,600) he paid.
How the Billion-Dollar Ever Given Cargo Ship Got Stuck in the Suez Canal
Jun 24 2021, 9:31 AMJul 02 2021, 1:30 AMJune 24 2021, 9:31 AMJuly 02 2021, 1:30 AM (Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Captain Krishnan Kanthavel watched the sun rise over the Red Sea through a dusty haze. Winds of more than 40 mph, whipping off the Egyptian desert, had turned the sky an anemic yellow.
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