Vladimir Putin’s anti-opposition tactics helped pull off the parliamentary win.
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Russia’s Central Election Commission announced results that give a strong majority to United Russia. It was met with skepticism, if little surprise.
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How many other world leaders can claim to have become a verb?
SPD main candidate Olaf Scholz meets voters on the campaign trail.
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After a rocky start, the social democrats are on the up as polling day approaches.
Smoke rises from a wildfire in the forested hills of the Kabylie region, east of the capital Algiers, on August 10, 2021.
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With a massive territory to manage, all actions taken - to prevent, to detect and to fire fight - aren’t enough.
What’s on the table during Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Washington visit?
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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to seek commitments from his US counterpart, pledging support in his country’s ongoing battle with the Russian Federation.
In England, children were seen as a way to replenish the military and sustain the economy.
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Go back to 17th- and 18th-century England and France and you’ll see the same sort of handwringing over birthrates that we’re seeing today.
The pass could exclude vulnerable people from public life.
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France is requiring people to prove their Covid status in order to access public spaces like cinemas and restaurants. Here’s why that’s a problem.
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The EU is cracking down on pay secrecy, as the pandemic exacerbates gender inequalities.
Des migrants sénégalais protestent contre le racisme et la violence à Milan.
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Un élément crucial qui favorise la migration est le fait d’avoir des liens personnels avec des migrants contemporains.
The UK’s secretary of state for international trade, Liz Truss chairs a CPTPP head of mission roundtable, July 2020.
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The CPTPP probably won’t invigorate post-Brexit Britain economically, and it could even be dangerous, geopolitically speaking.
The passage of a bill cracking down on LGBTQ+ rights in Hungary has sparked waves of protests.
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A new anti-LGBTQ+ law in Hungary is populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s tactic for securing support ahead of elections.
Members of the military deployed in the hunt for Conings, who has been missing since May.
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A soldier is on the run after being charged with the attempted murder of the government’s leading pandemic expert.
Protesters took to the streets in Poland to protest the country’s crackdown on abortion access.
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Some countries made abortion access easier during the pandemic. Others used it as an excuse for a crackdown.
The al-Hol displacement camp in Syria currently houses both refugees and IS foreign fighters.
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The Danish government has been clear that it prioritises politics over the law when it comes to its citizens who left to join the caliphate.
Citrus orchards in South Africa. Kenyans buying South African oranges pay a heavy price due to import duties.
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The African Continental Free Trade Area is the largest in the world. The World Bank sees it as a means of lifting 30 million people out of extreme poverty. But will it?
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Multiple incidents prove that borders in Europe are often as clear as mud.
Ex-hurricane Ophelia striking the British Isles on October 16, 2017.
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Storms which originate in the tropics and reach Europe aren’t as rare as scientists once thought.
By the end of April, 19 EU member states, including France, had approved the text paving the way for the launch of the recovery plan.
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National procedures for approving the financing of the European recovery plan are delaying its implementation. But the horizon seems to be clearing.
In Belgrade, Serbia, residents and visitors queue to be vaccinated against the Covid-19 virus (March 28, 2021).
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While Serbia’s Covid-19 infection rate continues to be worrisome, the country has shown the ability to vaccinate a higher proportion of its population than EU nations.
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Boundaries aren’t just treaties. They’ve been built from rivers, oral history and newspaper notices — and rocks in the way of farmers.