World Regions

"So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city" (Genesis 11:8).

Long ago, an ancient civilization revolted against God, gathering together and attempting to build a tower to the heavens. In response, God divided their languages and caused them to scatter across the globe. Now, millennia later, each world region has its own unique history...and shared future. Find out more below, or focus on a specific region with the links on the right.

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Best Government in Existence?

Is the U.S. form of government "the best existing, or that ever did exist"? Does its system of "checks and balances" produce strength—or contentiousness?
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European Union: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

The "glacier" of European unity is now moving at a faster pace.
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World Watches U.S. Post Election Predicament

The world has been watching and evaluating the spectacle. Has the United States' image, and more importantly, its power and prestige, been compromised?
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U.S. Election Crisis End of Political Stability

Political stability is rare. It's essential that those countries that have found the way to enduring stability hold fast. Has the historical stability of the U.S. form of government begun to wane?
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In Brief... BSE Disease Now in Western Europe

What peaked as a minor British epidemic in 1992 and 1993 has more recently spread first to France, and now to Germany.
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In Brief... U.S. Population Statistics Show Looming Issues

Some believe that the strong economy will eventually eliminate poverty and that the country needs only to continue on its current path. A more realistic view holds that the economic growth is tenuous and likely to cycle downward.
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What Lies Ahead for U.S. Leadership?

The next four years could bring some dramatic challenges for America's leadership role in the world. The next president will face the consequences of missed opportunities during the 1990s.
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World News and Trends: Containing South Africa's crimes

South Africa has the world's worst peacetime statistics for murder, rape and robbery. To add to the problem, police forces have a reputation for incompetence and corruption.
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World News and Trends: Instability returns to currency markets, world economy

Halfway through the 31/2-year transition planned for the adoption of the euro by 11 of the 15 member nations, the European single currency appears to be in trouble.
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World News and Trends: Blizzard of catastrophes ahead for Russia?

A series of disasters-the sinking of a nuclear submarine, a fire in a Moscow television tower and nuclear-plant shutdowns-may be a harbinger of greater catastrophes, warns a Russian parliamentary commission.
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World News and Trends: Europe's fuel shortage

Conditions are virtually back to normal, but just a short while ago newspapers devoted page after page to the fuel shortage in Britain and several other European nations. The problem began in France and spread from there to other countries.
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World News and Trends: European Union plans armed force

The European Union plans a 5,000-strong armed force capable of carrying out "preventative and repressive" actions in support of global peacekeeping, to be operational by 2003.
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This is the Way, Walk in It: "Neither Shall They Learn War Anymore"

Do you know where your child is tonight?
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In Brief... World News Review: Nightmare Virus Revisits Uganda

Hemorrhagic fever begins with flu-like symptoms. It's caused by a virus of unknown origin and spreads alarmingly easily through contact with an infected person.
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In Brief... World News Review: Middle East Components Defy Simplification

A mythology of universal victimization and unblemished righteousness. National feelings nurtured in aberrant conditions of exile and statelessness.
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Martyrs for a Homeland

Teenage girls are the best candidates for suicide bombers among the Tamil Tigers.
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A Lesson From U.S. Election Fever

Has the media focus on the U.S. election kept people from being aware of even more important issues? World News and Prophecy is committed to providing a dimension you do not readily find elsewhere.
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First the End of Empire-Now, the End of Britain?

Are we witnessing the end of the nation whose people, "relative to their numbers, contributed more to civilization than any other people since the ancient Greeks and Romans"?
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Will America Go to War Over Taiwan?

Is Taiwan significant in the broad picture of world events? Or is its future merely a local concern?
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This Is The Way, Walk in It: The Little Country That Could

War very rarely leaves a nation or people where it found them. Reporter Simmons begins her story by sharing one man's return to his pre-war livelihood.
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