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Three months on from India’s decision to revoke the special status of Jammu and Kashmir the valley remains in lockdown. Kashmir occupies an uncomfortable place in India’s collective national consciousness, writes Isha Dueby, who argues that it’s simultaneously a faraway land evocative of heaven on Earth as well as a territory integral to the Indian union. So where will the events of 2019 fit in India’s national memory in the future? She sees similarities between the way Partition in 1947 and the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 are remembered today.
The world has experienced a large number of big outbreaks of measles this year. The biggest has been in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where more than 3000 people, mostly children, have died since January. This isn’t the first measles outbreak in the country. Matthew Ferrari unpacks why.
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Harvest season in the Kashmir valley.
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Isha Dueby, Lund University
How will future generations of Indians view Kashmir's contested history?
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Many families in the DRC can’t routinely access preventive services.
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Matthew Ferrari, Pennsylvania State University
Even when cases of measles are detected in clinics, limited diagnostic and communication infrastructure can delay the response.
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Politics + Society
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Austin Sarat, Amherst College
A little-known provision of the Constitution might allow Trump to be reelected president in 2020 even if he is removed from office through the impeachment process.
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Pamela Abbott, University of Aberdeen
Crony capitalism became firmly embedded under Ben Ali, benefiting his family and close friends.
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Energy + Environment
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Alex Rogers, University of Oxford
Polar regions may be becoming more profitable, but these "benefits" come with far more severe costs.
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Suzanne O'Connell, Wesleyan University
In some places, the ocean is almost 7 miles deep. Scientists exploring the ocean floor have found strange sea creatures, bizarre geologic formations and records of Earth's history.
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Health + Medicine
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Mario Falchi, King's College London
Individual gut microbe species are less important for our health than teams of microbes working together.
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James Blaxland, Cardiff Metropolitan University; Vitti Allender, Cardiff Metropolitan University
More people are drinking unpasteurised milk but what does the evidence say?
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