Between trade and traditional security alliances, New Zealand is being pulled in opposite directions over China. A new foreign policy is urgently needed.
Photos of British singer Vera Lynn are seen in a window, as her funeral procession is led through the village of Ditchling, southern England, July 10, 2020.
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We can celebrate Dame Vera while rejecting racist myths about Second World War Britain and those who seek to use Lynn to advance a xenophobic nostalgia.
Cameroon’s soldiers patrol near a tank in the Cameroonian town of Fotokol.
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Cameroon's anglophone crisis is not simply a dispute between two feuding groups: a range of international actors have been architects of the current situation.
As the U.K. leaves the European Union, what awaits Prime Minister Boris Johnson?
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New research reveals remarkable evidence of a copper-mining bonanza in Wales that was so productive the metal reached France, Germany, Denmark and Sweden.
Miners working at Bersham Colliery near Wrexham in Wales, 1960.
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People who moved away from Britain's coal-mining areas have genetic profiles linked to higher educational attainment and better health than those who stayed.
A demonstrator in Hong Kong on Aug. 24, 2019.
REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach.
REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
Just what is Boris Johnson, the UK's new prime minister: a liberal or conservative? A historian writing a book about Brexit, the focus of much of Johnson's career, says the man is hard to pin down.
Boris Johnson has threatened to withhold Britain’s Brexit bill if he’s the country’s next prime minister.
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Mistaken links between the EU and the European Convention on Human Rights could be one factor that sees the UK losing out on these vital supranational laws.
Dami Im, the Australian entrant in the 61st annual Eurovision Song Contest in 2016, performs in the grand final held in Stockholm.
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As England agonises over Brexit, divisions have emerged in other parts of the UK, especially in Northern Ireland and independent-minded Scotland.
Unseen from ground level, this Iron Age farmstead with recognisable round house near the Yorkshire Wolds is revealed in cropmarks. The lighter green shows it was carefully placed on a gravel rise surrounded by wetter land, shown here where the crop grows a darker green.
Peter Halkon