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The favourite to become the next prime minister has never felt the need to apologise for his offensive remarks about Muslim women.
The Muslim Brotherhood has been slow to adapt to its new reality.
Between 2000 and 2015, the population of U.S. citizen minors living in Mexico more than doubled. Who are the kids living on the other side of the border?
Here is how our mobile phones compare with the computer that landed man on the moon in 1969.
When faced with US rejection of international criminal justice, today’s supporters of the ICC often invoke the country’s Nuremberrg leadership. However, this notion is based on a distorted image of the 1945-46 trials.
The court case highlighted that key environmental challenges were not adequately covered by the Environmental Impact Assessment
Fifty years after the Stonewall riots, what is their political legacy for LGBTQ activism?
Natural resources are an important factor in explaining why some rebel groups forcibly recruit children into their ranks.
If the US military were a country, its carbon emissions would rank between that of Peru and Portugal.
Rating agencies continue to be found wanting, primarily because of their business model where the institution being rated pays. This brings about a conflict of interest which is not easy to resolve.
The nervous Egyptian state hopes that fan-instigated stadium riots will not occur during the Afcon, following a clampdown on some fans.
High-profile cases of corruption, ticket touting and match fixing have led Italians to lose faith in the beautiful game.
For their next president, Guatemalans must choose between two veteran politicians with shady pasts and alleged ties to organized crime.
President Trump has discussed firing Fed Chair Jerome Powell over the central bank’s interest rate policies. Research shows this kind of political meddling is usually bad for the economy.
The ruling National Resistance Movement has undermined Uganda’s democracy
A controversial extradition law has been suspended in Hong Kong after more than a week of mass public resistance. Hong Kong’s legal system is one of its few remaining areas of autonomy from China.
Displaced by the terrorist insurgency in Northeast Nigeria, refugees aren’t wallowing in self-pity. They’re mobilising whatever resources they can to rebuild livelihoods.
Borders are porous between North Kivu province of the DRC and neighbouring countries, so the potential for spread is highly likely.
Hong Kong’s protesters are galvanised by their cause, but whether they can sustain their momentum and bring about real change remains to be seen.
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