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INSIDER INSINUATES THAT NORTH KOREAN GOVERNMENT MAY BE CORRUPT Vienna, Austria – Corruption in government is nothing new. In fact, up until the 20th century corruption was the norm, embedded in the culture of power and politics. In many nations throughout the world deep and severe corruption exists and even in modernized governments like the United States incidents of kickbacks and sexual indiscretion are common. However, the growing power of the people and the dissemination of information on a scale that the world has never seen before means that most extreme expressions of corruption are that much harder to get away with, and thus simply don’t happen. GRIZZLY BEARS INVADING CANADA’S CAPITAL Ottawa, Canada – While Canada has not shared the history of warfare that some other nations have, her history has nonetheless been a bloody one. The battles between the French and English, the subjugation of Native populations, and of course the war of 1812 have all shed blood on Canadian soil. Protected by the British for much her history, Canada’s rise to one of the most successful nations in the world was far from a given as those early pioneers carved a nation out of ice and snow. Despite of, or possibly because of those early traumas however, Canada has had great success. IRAQI ELECTIONS START OFF WITH A BANG Diyala, Iraq – For centuries the process of democracy has been ever evolving. Our modern incarnations of the process, whether in a republic like the United States a parliament such as in the U.K. or some other version, are as different from its origins as it could possibly be. That evolution is of course completely natural. Our societies have become much more complex and much larger since those early days in Greece, and the threats existing in the world are so much more dire that inevitably our political process has to adapt.

ZOMBIE WOOLY MAMMOTHS STALKING NORTHERN SIBERIA Yakutsk, Russia – Extinction is, unfortunately, one of the basic truisms of the natural world. In the 3.7 billion years or so, that life has existed on our planet more millions of species have lived and died. Even with the incredible abundance of life forms currently on the planet, their numbers pale in comparison to those that have already gone extinct. Some of those extinctions, such as the dinosaurs, are well known but smaller more obscure lives have already been lost forever, a process that continues today. ISRAELI POLICE MAKING EFFORT TO ARREST CHILDREN PROPERLY Jerusalem, Israel – There are few conflicts in the world that have the same kind of ferocity and global consequences as the one between Israel and the Palestinians. Though other ethnic and social traumas exist in many places across the globe, the historical significance and the financial importance of that region of the world has ensured that every move, no matter how insignificant, is scrutinized by every other nation. That hasn’t stopped the conflict however and the battles between the two distinct but intertwined communities will likely continue for years to come. ETHNIC VIOLENCE IN NIGERIA LEAVES HUNDREDS OF NIGERIANS DEAD Jos, Nigeria – Anthropologists believe that all modern human beings descended from common ancestry. Starting in Eastern Africa, Homo sapiens spread outwards, conquering other members of the genus, spreading the seed of humanity throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas. While new evidence may throw a wrench in that classical out-of-Africa hypothesis, the simple biological truth of our species is that we are all closely related, that at a genetic level we show very little diversity, confirming that theory that all 7 billion of us carry a shared ancestry.

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