ENGL 2: The World at Your Doorstep—On America and Global Issues

DH De La O, The Department of English and Comparative Literature @ SJSU, Spring 2016

Saturday, March 12, 2016

World News 3.12.16


  • NORTH KOREA: North Korea sub missing amid US-South Korea exercises (BBC News)
  • INDIA: Country sees its first openly-gay prince (Huffington Post)
  • PAKISTAN: Powerful religious body declares state law criminalizing violence against women is "un-Islamic" (Reuters) 
  • BRAZIL: drug kingpin killed by Zika virus (Daily Mirror)
  • SCOTLAND: Strange lights fill the night sky above Perthshire (Huffington Post)
  • AUSTRALIA: Polls find Australian, New Zealander, Canadian, and British support for a EU-style system of free movement among countries (ABC News)

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    DH De La O,
    The Department of English & Comparative Literature
    @ San José State University

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