Public toilets in the city of Varanasi in India.
Jorge Royan
For an emerging country like India, it is easier to take part in exploratory missions to Mars than to tackle its sanitation challenge.
Participants in the 2015 rally organised by the Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections in Malaysia.
Olivia Harris/Reuters
Participants in the latest organised by the Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections in Malaysia will face a repressive state apparatus as well as an intimidating counter-movement known as Red Shirts.
Protesters wearing cut-outs of South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Choi Soon-sil attend a protest denouncing the president.
Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters
South Korean President Park Geun-Hye may be about to become the first national leader to be questioned by prosecutors while still in office.
‘Make America Great Again’ or the projected visions of President Trump for Americans.
Carlo Allegri/Reuters
The countries ripped apart by the Yugoslav wars have seen this kind of nationalism before.
During his campaign, Trump has adopted a virulent nationalist tone.
Carlo Allegri/Reuters
From Iran and the relationship with Russia to global trade, many questions remain on how Donald Trump will shape his foreign policy.
Toby Melville/Reuters
Diplomacy between Europe and Trump’s administration will be tricky, but not impossible.
Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters
Trump’s promises to build a wall have caused anxiety in Mexico – but the country has its own conflicting policies on migration from Central America.
Marrakesh braces for the first round of climate talks since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015.
Youssef Boudlal/Reuters
The Paris Agreement is in place, but there’s still much to lose for the least developed countries.
A broker in Mumbai reacts on November 9.
Danish Siddiqui/Reuters
The world braces for Donald Trump’s brand of` trade protectionism, which will send shockwaves through the global economy.
Donald Trump claims victory in New York.
Mike Segar/Reuters
November 9, 2016
William Case , City University of Hong Kong ; Andrea Peto , Central European University ; Janjira Sombatpoonsiri , Thammasat University ; Jay Batongbacal , University of the Philippines ; Jonathan Rynhold , Bar-Ilan University ; Miguel Angel Latouche , Universidad Central de Venezuela ; Richard Maher , European University Institute ; Rut Diamint , Torcuato di Tella University ; Salvador Vázquez del Mercado , Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) ; Subarno Chattarji , University of Delhi , and Weronika Grzebalska , Polish Academy of Sciences
Donald J Trump has emerged victorious in the historic, and historically acerbic, 2016 American presidential election. What does this outcome mean for the world?
Remote mountain regions like the Upper Mustang in Nepal are often neglected by the rest of the world.
Timothy Karpouzoglou
Remote mountain regions are closer to the climate problem than we think, particularly in the context of safeguarding essential ecosystem services such as safe and adequate water.
US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama on tour by Grand Imam Ali Mustafa Yaqub at the Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta in 2010.
Adek Berry/Reuters
Obama managed to build stronger rapport with many countries in Southeast Asia,but lacked foreign policy initiatives. China neatly plugged that gap.
A very spooky campaign.
Eduardo Munoz/Reuters
Trump is not a disease that befell the United States, he’s a symptom of a potentially severe illness. Recovering American democracy will take quite some time.
Clinton attending a school event in Luxor in 1999, as First Lady.
Reuters
Can Hillary Clinton, as a woman president, make a difference to Egyptian women? Her former views on democratisation in Egypt leave doubt int the minds of local observers.
Bhokul has faced the loss of her family’s land, and the loss of their income. Now climate change threatens her livelihood even more.
Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson/UNU-EHS
Meet Bhokal, who has already lost so much due to environmental disasters, and who needs the Paris agreement to be a success.
Seven countries in the 12-member Trans-Pacific Partnership hail from the Asia Pacific.
Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
Security and economic interests, in the guise of the 12-member Trans-Pacific Partnership (seven of which hail from the Asia-Pacific), are causing anxiety among US friends and allies.
Marrakesh awaits an influx of climate negotiators.
Lionel Leo
The Paris agreement may be in force, but that doesn’t mean the world agrees on climate change.
Voting doesn’t mean much in Kazakhstan.
Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters
Donald Trump is wrong: the US election can’t be rigged. But it’s a different story in Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Gabon and Mexico.
We’ve come a long way since the agreement was formed in 2015.
Stephane Mahe/Reuters
November 3, 2016
Bill Hare , Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research ; Harald Winkler , University of Cape Town ; Julia P G Jones , Bangor University ; Luke Kemp , Australian National University ; Meraz Mostafa , Independent University, Bangladesh ; Pep Canadell , CSIRO , and Stefan Rahmstorf , Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Experts agree that a new era for climate policy here. But the hard work starts now.
Hillary Clinton, then US Secretary of State, with then-president of Venezuela Hugo Chavez, in 2011.
Reuters
Facing shortages in food and medicines, extreme political polarisation, and a spiraling economic crisis, Venezuelans find it hard to care about the adventures of Clinton v. Trump.