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On 10 August, three days after the inauguration of President Abelardo de la Espriella, Colombia experienced a magnitude 7.4 earthquake, the country’s worst since 1979. With the epicentre in San José ...

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I will leave it to those who knew him to speak about Jason Arday’s contributions to academia and university life, ...

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