After more than 7,000 killings by police and vigilantes, an incident involving the death of a South Korea businessman has finally put an end of Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war.
Cabinet Public Relations Office/Handout via Reuters
Pakistan’s rich visual and poetic culture is expressed every day on walls, rickshaws and buses. As the country struggles to offer solace to its people, they carry its narratives and emotions.
How is rapid warming in the Arctic affecting animals that are adapted to cold? A wildlife biologist is using many techniques to find out, including stalking muskoxen in a polar bear costume.
Nigerian former sex worker “Beauty” at a social support centre for trafficked girls near Catania in Italy.
Reuters/Tom Esslemont
Nigerian women migrating to Europe are increasingly aware that work hidden in the form of menial jobs is actually sex work, even though they cannot imagine the brutality that comes with it.
Scientific and technological innovations and economic policies promoting growth at all costs have created a consumption and production vortex on a collision course with the Earth system.
‘Venice Inflatable Refugee’, an artist’s project displayed in Venice in 2016.
Dirk Knot/Schellekens
Alternative models to host asylum seekers have proved their efficiency. Venice has been a sanctuary city for years and with the right policies, it could be reproduced.
Senator Alejandro Guillier inside the Chilean congress in Valparaiso, Chile.
Rodrigo Garrido/Reuters
Outsider Alejandro Guillier’s sudden rise in the polls has invigorated Chilean politics and revived the hopes of progressives across the region.
Violent history of French Guiana could be one of the factors that explains today’s high criminality in the region. Prison of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni , 2009.
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Violence is on the rise in French Guiana. To understand this phenomenon, scholars delve into the often tragic history of the region.
An artist’s impression of a Sun-like star close to a rapidly spinning supermassive black hole, with a mass of about 100 million times the mass of our Sun.
ESA/Hubble, ESO, M. Kornmesser
About one in four physicians in graduate medical education is from another country. Here’s how a travel ban could harm them, and our health care system.
A squadron of UAE Mirage fighter planes such as this one at the Dubai Airshow are stationed in Eritrea for Yemeni operations.
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Professor in Practice on Environmental Innovation, School of Social and Environmental Sustainability, University of Glasgow, UK, National University of Singapore