The UK’s leading index of companies has broken the 7,000 points barrier despite fragile growth and the uncertainty of Brexit.
The remains of a burned car outside Gabon’s National Assembly. It was set alight during unrest after the disputed reelection of President Ali Bongo.
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Ali Bongo seems to have won Gabon’s elections. Yet his contested “victory” has radically changed the political field in this soft democracy, one of Africa’s richest and most stable.
China and the US are at the centre of multilateral trade talk disagreements.
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With no sign of resolution in the near future the collapse of multilateral trade negotiations, tagged as the Doha round, risks breeding a major crisis.
Viktor Orbán speaks in Budapest after the Hungary referendum result.
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Most economists argued against Brexit, predicting dire consequences if the UK voted to leave the EU. Here’s why bets are still on to see if they were right.
The UK plays a crucial role in how the European Union engages with African nations. Post referendum, political and diplomatic norms will have to be re-imagined.
President Duterte has picked fights with President Obama and with the EU. His behavior is shaking the U.S.-Philippine alliance and stability in Southeast Asia.
With patience and a degree of moral ambivalence, the UK may find an EU that is increasingly open to the idea of free trade without free movement of people.
Migrants, blocked from going further into Europe, sit in a park in central Belgrade.
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Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity, University of Birmingham