Things could get very interesting if Martin Schulz wins the German election and Emmanuel Macron triumphs in France.
Hannibal Hanschke/Pascal Rossignol/Reuters
Donald Trump is wildly unpopular with Mexicans. But so, too, is President Enrique Peña Nieto, putting him in a tough position for this week’s high-level American official visit to Mexico.
A prospector prepares to pan for gold in South Kivu in 2014. Many informal miners faced tough choices as US regulations turned life upside down.
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The US wants to repeal controls imposed seven years ago on the trade of some Congolese minerals. The president’s reasons might be all wrong. But the law was badly put together in the first place.
Young African penguins are following the usual cues to feeding grounds only to find that the sources of food in these places is no longer available. This is devastating for their numbers.
It’s past time to dismantle the (often invisible) barriers that keep people with disabilities less healthy, employed and educated than other groups worldwide.
Artificial intelligence is surrounded by fear and mystery because very few understand its inner workings. But it’s actually rather intuitive and far simpler than it seems.
Swimming in synchrony is a fundamental social behaviour for dolphins and is thought to reinforce their bonds.
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An adversarial international commission of inquiry, similar to one instituted to resolve a dispute between Britain and Russia in 1905, could break the deadlock over the downed flight.
John Brewer, Queen's University Belfast; Olivera Simic, Griffith University; Roberto Saba, Universidad de Palermo y Stephanie Perazzone, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)
What can Colombia can learn from other nations’ transitions, both successful and unsuccessful, from war to peace?
The lychgate of the Camel’s Back Road Cemetery.
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Most of Trump’s positions go against the principles accepted by the United Nations. The new Secretary-General will have to try to find areas of mutual concern to work with the new US administration.
A Turkish soldier watches the border line between Turkey and Syria near the southeastern village of Besarslan, in Hatay province, Turkey.
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Caught out by the side effects of the Syrian civil war and deteriorating relations with the EU and the US, Turkey now appears to be in search of South-South cooperation.
Churchill allowed science to flourish. Without a similar attitude in today’s politics, we may hit a bottleneck for life that leaves a Universe without a single human soul to enjoy it.
Doesn’t look like much of a threat, does he?
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Professor in Practice on Environmental Innovation, School of Social and Environmental Sustainability, University of Glasgow, UK, National University of Singapore