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If educated women are discriminated against in their home country, they will take their skills elsewhere.
MQ Predator unmanned aircraft, the kind of drone used for targeted killings by the US army.
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Targeted killing – the killing of specific individuals usually performed by drones – is a globally expanding practice.
Will the ELN guerrillas lay down arms?
Jose Gomez/Reuters
Two months after signing peace accords with the FARC guerrillas, Colombia is set to start negotiations with the country’s second-largest rebel group, the National Liberation Army.
Jason Reed/Reuters
Japan claims that the placement of “comfort girl” statues outside the Japanese legations in South Korea violates international law, but state practice and jurisprudence suggests otherwise.
A member of Border Guard Bangladesh stands guard on a watchtower near the Bangladesh-Myanmar border to prevent Rohingya refugees from illegal border crossing.
Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters
Abuses on Rohingyas have reached new height but neither Myanmar nor neighbouring Bangladesh are taking responsibilities to grant basic human rights to this population.
US president Donald Trump has mastered the art of political storytelling.
Joshua Roberts/Reuters
What do Nelson Mandela, Chairman Mao and Spanish politician Pablo Iglesias have in common with Donald Trump?
Then-crown prince Maha Vajiralongkorn attends an event commemorating the death of his father King Bhumibol.
Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters
King Rama X is transforming the nominal powers granted by the constitution into real powers to be exercised at his own discretion, restoring a hybrid form of monarchical rule in the Land of Smiles.
Mass inside the church dedicated to our Lady of Good Health in Valenkanni, Tamil Nadu.
D.Fernandes
A common place of worship in India and Pakistan offers solace and bonds religious minorities in Pakistan.
Globally the frequency of natural disasters has more than doubled over the past 35 years.
CGIAR/Challenge food and water programme
Wetlands management is vital but sweeping statements about their universal value may do more harm than good.
A man flies a kite at the Peace Park in San José, Costa Rica.
Juan Carlos Ulate/Reuters
Environmental sustainability has a role in increasing national well-being.
Can Europe prove that it’s capable of finding energy in its contradictions and differences and reinvent itself as a place the whole world respects?
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According to German public intellectual Claus Offe, Europe faces multiple crises but is not down and out yet.
People protest Donald Trump’s travel ban from Muslim majority countries at Los Angeles International Airport.
Patrick T. Fallon/Reuters
When politics of compassion are replaced by binary visions of the world, we – scholars, media and civil society – should be able to provide challenging tools in the migration debate.
Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto’s meeting with Donald Trump during the campaign proved wildly unpopular with the Mexico people.
Henry Romero/Reuters
What’s cooler than standing up to a bully?
For Brazilian citizens, it sometimes feels like the whole country is on fire right now.
Adriano Machado/Reuters
Things keep getting worse for South America’s most populous nation and biggest economy. What is going on, Brazil?
Stefanie Loos/Reuters
What’s the proper way to behave at a Holocaust memorial? Is that even the right question?
Only long-term integration policies will keep people safe from appalling camps conditions.
Yannis Behrakis/Reuters
The 60,000 people currently stuck in Greece will probably have to stay there. The EU should help them integrate.
Czar Dancel/Reuters
Politics is a world for which show business celebrities are perfectly adapted and their predominance in the Philippines offers a glimpse of what televisual populism could look like in other countries.
Kenyans marching in solidarity with Americans and women worldwide to protest the sexist statements of president Donald Trump.
Voice of America
Donald Trump has done what decades of American feminism could not: unite women worldwide in solidarity.
Can basic income become a worldwide policy?
Moyan Brenn/Flickr
The arguments for an universal basic income have emerged from a rising disillusionment in classic economics and expectations of more security.
Demonetisation is just the latest example of post-truth politics at work.
Ajay Verma/Reuters
Only by privileging an English-speaking, Western position can we say that ‘post-truth’ emerged in 2016.