Brazil’s President Michel Temer, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chinese President Xi Jinping and South African President Jacob Zuma.
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Despite financial crises and political differences among these five emerging economies, the BRICS coalition is here to stay. And it may just change the world.
Medical entries on Wikipedia are widely consulted across the world. Doctors and medical researchers need to make efforts to ensure the content on the online collaborative encyclopedia is accurate.
A tourist takes pictures of a peace sign near the UN-controlled buffer zone in Nicosia.
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From the yellow butterflies of his ‘Hundred Years of Solitude’ to his Nobel acceptance speech, author Gabriel García Márquez remains ever present in his country’s peace process.
Angst when you forget your smartphone is not only a real psychological phenomenon–it also highlights a quintessentially postmodern problem: what the author calls the “anxiety of the disconnected”.
Integrating large refugee populations goes far beyond simply offering citizenship to some.
Colombians filled Bogota’s Plaza Bolivar on October 6 in support of the peace process with the FARC, derailed by an October 2 plebiscite.
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Of many ways to make fundamental decisions in a constitutional democracy, Colombia and Great Britain chose the riskiest of all options: the plebiscite.
Local diet is often influenced by other countries.
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Chinese parents and the state are concerned about the declining marriage rate in the country. But the focus on single men ignores the root of the problem.
An Indian coalmine worker walks along the Stilwell Road after a day’s work in Ledo town, at the Indian-Burmese border.
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Professor in Practice on Environmental Innovation, School of Social and Environmental Sustainability, University of Glasgow, UK, National University of Singapore