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This week, Erdoğan and Putin meet in an attempt to resurrect bilateral relations; protesters denounce the timeline for a recall of Venezuela’s president; the world’s longest hunger strike comes to an end; and more.
1. The Pacific Council maintains financial transparency. The Council discloses all sources of funding and all donations.
Olympian Yiech Pur Biel - credit: IOC
This week, an Olympic team of refugees makes history in Rio; researchers in Cuba develop a vaccine for lung cancer; women in Nepal organize to gain independence from a patriarchal caste system; and more.
Today, dynamic and diverse global cities like Los Angeles – with centralized administration and huge breadth of human productivity – have become the motors of global economic growth.
In March, a Pacific Council delegation traveled to Jakarta and Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Several key points emerged from the visit.
The best and brightest students and faculty from around the world are drawn to the Los Angeles and the broader Southern California region, home to six major research universities — Caltech, USC, UCLA, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, and UC Santa Barbara.
Stratfor's Editor-in-Chief sits down with the Pacific Council as part of the Edgerton Series on Iran and Turkey.
Los Angeles, famously known for having too many cars, too much smog, and too little affordable housing, is trying to reinvent itself by becoming the most sustainable global city in the nation by 2035.
More people are displaced in L.A. today than in 2013: Los Angeles is the third most homeless city in the world.
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This week on Global Beat: The Peace Corps will be established in Vietnam for the first time in history; Santiago’s subway system will become the world’s first solar-powered metro; Greece and Kenya move to close down refugee camps; and more.
