London has become a more dangerous city than New York. The crime rate in the UK has increased by 13% according to the new report. The capital gets a lot of the blame for this due to the violence. London and New York are similar in population, they both have around eight million inhabitants. However, […]

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There are three possibilities for the Brexit deal between the UK and the EU, a hard, soft and semi-soft Brexit agreement. This is from the leaked Brexit Report from January 2018 by the new Brexit department, which analyses the outcome of the different trading deals given by the EU. The hard deal means that UK gets […]

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Black Lives Matter is an international activist group fighting and protesting against violence directed to black people. In 2012 17 years old Trayvon Martin was shot and murdered by George Zimmerman. Zimmerman claims it was selfdefense, and was acquitted for the murder. This created riots and people started to look for a response. In July 2013 […]

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Donald Trump has been president for almost one full year now. The maiden year of his career as the highest ranking chosen official has been full of political intrigues and discussions. It has surely been a turbulent year for his administration, and the question that everyone keeps asking is if he will last for another […]

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Northern Ireland and Ireland has had a complicated and troubling past. Ireland is a independent country, but Northern Ireland is on the other hand a part of Great Britain. The roots of the conflict go back til 1541 when Henry 8. conquered Ireland and introduced a protestant regime. The government started to give rewards to […]

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We chose global goal number 16 titled Peace, Justice, and Strong Intuitions. The main purpose of global goal 16 is to promote a peaceful and inclusive society to create a sustainable development. The goal also focuses on providing access to justice for all and building effective and accountable institutions at all levels. Within the many […]

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*This is a translated version of an Norwegian article from Aftenposten.no The divorce process has been problematic the whole time, due to British clarity, but at least as much because Brussels has shown little determination to find a satisfactory solution for the British. Someone had hoped things would be better only Theresa May had her […]

Read More The EU-case splits Theresa Mays conservative party. It can only get worse despite the EU-solution

In the US, they have an indirect election system.  The 8th of November every fourth year, there is election day in the states. Before this, the presidential candidates have been elected within the parties. Any American citizen can vote for their favorite candidate, but this will only determine if the candidate gets the electors of […]

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Gerrymandering Gerrymandering has been a term for centuries when Elbridge Gerry drew districts in the shape of a salamander. Gerry was accused of pulling the borders of the districts in Massachusetts in his favor. This has continued to be a problem for the election in the US.  Every ten years the borders for districts in […]

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