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Romania will be displaying, May 27-31, at the Bookexpo America (BEA), US's largest book trade fair, for the second time with its own stand, while also holding a series of related events.

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A 21-year-old visual arts student at Columbia University carried, with help, a mattress on stage recently to accept her diploma as part of a semester-long protest against the university, which she claims failed to take action against a fellow student who raped her!

Students at Columbia University published an editorial complaining about Greek myths being studied in one of their classes. They said that the texts “can be difficult to read and discuss as a survivor, a person of color or a student from a low-income background.” They stated that the texts trigger toxicity. Specifically, the students wrote:

Written by 17 world-leading scientists, the Earth Statement clarifies, in eight essential elements, what the international climate agreement in Paris in December should achieve in order to provide the world with a good chance of avoiding dangerous climate change.

Columbia University recognized newspaper coverage of local calamities and international emergencies in the 99th annual Pulitzer Prizes on April 21.

An independent research conducted by a team in the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism ended the months-long controversy of Rolling Stone magazine’s story about a gang rape of a Virginia University student. The magazine was forced to withdraw its article, which proved to be incorrect, admit and apologize for the mistakes made during its publication and editing.

The US government has announced that military training will be provided to 600 Ukrainian national guards in March.

The new development was revealed a day after US President Obama announced his support for the diplomatic solution to the conflict in Ukraine. 

Turkey’s first ever culture and tourism minister, Talat Sait Halman, passed away on Dec. 4.

Halman was born in Istanbul in 1931. He studied at Istanbul’s Robert Collage and got his master’s degree in political science from Columbia University.

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged euro-area leaders to coordinate more closely on economic policy and repair the “construction flaws” built into the 18- member currency union to overcome the debt crisis.

The FBI have targeted Muslims in abusive counterterrorism ‘sting operations’ based on religious and ethnic identity, Human Rights Watch says in a report The FBI encouraged and sometimes even paid Muslims to commit terrorist acts during numerous sting operations after the 9/11 attacks, a human rights group said in a report published on July 21.