A soldier on the African Union Mission in Somalia standing guard on a street during a security operation in Mogadishu, Somalia.
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AMISOM’s experiences suggest that urban peace operations must be given sufficient resources from the outset
A woman shelters in a church in the Central African Republic after deadly 2014 attacks involving Muslim and Christian fighters.
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Bad governance and political manoeuvring increase the risk of communal conflicts
Free movement of people isn’t a huge financial burden on Europe’s welfare states.
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EU migrant households are actually a net benefit on the public purse in much of Europe.
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Councils have sold off vast amounts of land since 2014 – land that was previously used for important public services.
Sangalaki Island, Indonesia.
The Coral Reef Image Bank image provide by Simon Pierce.
Coral reefs are in trouble, but other marine species are also feeling the strain but are off the conservation radar.
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Four reasons why the line between activism and business is blurring.
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As we try to understand how extreme groups win mass appeal, this organisation offers valuable lessons.
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Starting with two simple sheepdog rules, the robot then began to display new, unprogrammed behaviour.
A sign at a candlelit vigil tells the story of a country sliding further into authoritarianism.
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If the referendum goes President Pierre Nkrunziza’s way, it will also be a further blow to ordinary Burundians, who live in a state of hardship and adversity.
Pan s’accouplant avec une chèvre, statue de la Villa des Papyrus, Herculaneum, 1752.
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Les animaux jouissent-ils ? Comment en être sûr ? Cela a-t-il de l’importance, et pour qui ?
Pan having sex with a goat, statue from Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum, 1752.
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The vast discrepancy between abhorrence of bestiality and acceptance of slaughtering on animals suggests that thinking imaginatively about animal orgasm may help us to be more compassionate toward animals.
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Each discipline tells us only part of the story. And so the truest picture of prehistory comes from triangulating these independent lines of evidence.
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Evolutionary biologists ask very similar questions about species to those asked by linguists about languages.
Foot for thought.
A new study can’t rule out the possibility that human ancestors lived on Crete at the same time as they evolved in Africa.
A man navigates a dry riverbed in Bamako, Mali. Climate change is contributing to community upheavals.
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Generally conflicts are not caused by climate change. But it can lead to complex security risks.
Power talks.
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The leaders of Turkey and India have plenty in common.
Urban and social art at the first edition of ‘Neighbours’ festival in Katowice, in 2014.
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As Poland faces more and more social divisions, citizen movements develop through informal activities to reinforce a sense of community and belonging.
There is very little chance that you’ll get one of those in Sweden today.
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The Swedish housing model, once an ideal, has become a nightmare for most Swedes. Many are left struggling to find a roof.
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Some economic models tell us that segregation is inevitable. Is it really?
The X-chromosome at some point evolved to be different from all other chromosomes.
Unlike other chromosomes, the X chromosome is inactivated in nearly all cells in women – and genes on it are active in very few tissues.