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China has been very quiet in negotiations over fisheries regulations for the central Arctic Ocean. Why is the country’s behaviour there so dramatically different from what it pursues in Antarctica?
The “no” result from Italy’s referendum is likely to brew political and economic uncertainty for some time yet.
Revelations of sexual abuse in the making of Last Tango in Paris give the film ‘the air of a snuff piece’. Film scholars must reassess the work – there is no place for revering artistic achievement over human suffering.
The pope’s action is significant: It encourages priests to be more sensitive to the context of the lives of their laity.
Gambia’s president of 22 years has been defeated in a shock election victory for opposition leader Adama Barrow.
After admitting that its peacekeepers brought the disease to the country, the organisation must make financial amends too.
It would be short-sighted to believe that a more far-reaching transformation than a royal succession might not also be in store for the Kingdom of Thailand.
The strange and enlightening tale of a South American dictator who tried to prevent white people from marrying other white people.
Despite worries about a new Asian Financial Crisis, much has changed since the last one in 1997. Even if a crisis were to materialise, it would look quite different from that of two decades ago.
The outcome of Italy’s referendum on constitutional reform could have significant consequences for financial markets and the future of the EU.
Young black South Africans have been raised to believe that friendship across the races is an indicator of progress. Now, a generation into democracy, they are questioning this.
Can some people’s immune systems defeat Ebola virus before it has a chance to cause disease?
The question of repatriating objects is clearly more complex than returning human remains. It needs more debate, and more creative interventions to move beyond the current impasse.
Future population growth is expected to take place almost entirely in cities. We won’t fight climate change without them.
The South American nation is poised to end its 52-year civil war after a halting peace process that has used the weapons of both war and democracy.
The jailing of the two men shows the government of President Nursultan Nazarbayev well understands that it can no longer underestimate the power of new forms of civic activism.
More than any other, Venezuela is a country of Cuba’s making. But its own national tragedy is too deep for most citizens to mourn Fidel Castro’s death.
After weeks of mass demonstrations and a growing threat of impeachment, President Park Geun-Hye has said she is willing to resign before her term ends in February 2018.
In recent months, the flimsy foundations of Hong Kong’s autonomy have been exposed by a series of dramas.
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