The former prime minister was forced from office by a vote of no confidence. But that doesn’t mean the political drama is over, an expert on Pakistani politics explains.
People celebrating the Songkran Festival in Luang Prabang, Laos, in April 2021.
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Two recent discoveries in Alberta and Uzbekistan have identified the top predators in those regions during the Cretaceous period. Fossils that had been in storage for years included the jawbones.
Still Pakistan’s poster boy?
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Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan dissolved Parliament rather than face a no-confidence vote. The Conversation asked an expert: What happens next?
A woman holds a placard with the words ‘language is a weapon’ written in Ukrainian during a 2020 protest of a bill that sought to widen the use of Russian in Ukrainian public education.
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To Russian nationalists, if the Ukrainian language is classified as a derivative of the Russian language, the invasion looks less like an act of aggression and more like reintegration.
Dalat, a region in the central highlands of Vietnam, is known for its fertile land and the fruits and vegetables that grow there. As a consequence, interest in the Department of Agriculture at the Dalat Vocational Training College is high.
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Étienne Espagne, Agence française de développement (AFD); Alexis Drogoul, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD); Emmanuel Pannier, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD); Manh-Hung Nguyen, Toulouse School of Economics – École d'Économie de Toulouse; Marie-Noëlle Woillez, Agence française de développement (AFD) e Thanh Ngo-Duc, University of Science and Technology of Hanoi
Data analysis suggests local activity will intensify the effects of global warming - so adapting means rethinking national development strategies
Meredith Oyen, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Taiwanese authorities are allowing its tiny contingent to attend the opening ceremony in Beijing despite a long-running dispute over its name in the Olympics.
An activist holds up a defaced portrait of Myanmar Gen. Min Aung Hlaing during a rally against the military coup in Jakarta, Indonesia in April 2021, as the ASEAN summit was being held.
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Will the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, known as ASEAN, start taking tougher stances against authoritarian and military regimes? Its recent treatment of Myanmar’s military ruler is promising.
If you aren’t a fan of holiday shopping, you aren’t alone.
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Kim Jong Un has followed his father and grandfather in ruling by fear. The coronavirus pandemic has made North Korea ever more isolated, while expanded military capabilities make it a growing threat.
Delivery drivers sit on their electric scooters while waiting for orders outside a restaurant in Beijing, April 26, 2021.
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Gilles Guiheux, Université Paris Cité; Guo Ye, Université Paris Cité; Ke Huang, Université Paris Cité; Li Jun, Université Paris Cité; Manon Laurent, Université Paris Cité e Renyou Hou, Université Paris Nanterre – Université Paris Lumières
In China, as elsewhere, the pandemic has turned the world of work upside down.
Chinese engineers pose after welding the first seamless rails for the China-Laos railway in Vientiane, Laos, June 18, 2020.
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Through its Belt and Road Initiative, China has become the world’s largest country-to-country lender. A new study shows that more than half of its loans threaten sensitive lands or Indigenous people.
South Koreans living away from home have been frequent targets for suspicion and ire during the pandemic. Some even report being shunned by their families.
Singapore looks like one of the big winners from Brexit.
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New data shows the recent damage to UK’s prized services sector – and potentially to Europe as a whole.
In seven years, the lanternfly has spread from Berks County, northwest of Philadelphia, to large areas of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and both south and north.
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The spotted lanternfly, native to Asia, is spreading fast since arriving in the United States seven years ago. An entomologist explains why this is a big problem.
Taliban fighters in Uruzgan, Afghanistan.
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