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Veneranda fabbrica del Duomo courtesy of Daniele Mascolo/Expo 2015.

Nicholas J. Cull on the role of religion at the 2015 Milan Expo.

An Irish couple celebrate Bloomsday in Dublin.

Just after Bloomsday, a celebration of Ireland's public diplomacy.

Joint Operations train against cyber war

David S. Jackson on when trolling gets real.

Paul Rockower surveys and samples the pavilions in Milan.

Sunset over Puerto Rico

R.S. Zaharna offers insight gleaned from the Int'l Communication Assn.'s annual conference.

Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, Milan, Italy

The current world’s fair, with the theme “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life,” shines a bright light on its host Milan. 

President Barack Obama speaks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the 2015 Republic Day Parade

What public diplomacy strategies did Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi use during their first official visits to the U.S.?

Police Commissioner Suleiman Kova answers and addresses the media at ground zero near the 2013 Dar es Salaam building collapse

David S. Jackson on the journalism-propaganda conundrum.

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