A recent spat between Turkey and the Netherlands reveals how Dutch-Turks are badly served by politics.
The wife of a jailed opposition leader, during a rally to mark the third anniversary of his arrest in Caracas, Venezuela.
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Venezuelans, fleeing hunger and repression at home, have surpassed Central Americans as the top US asylum-seekers.
Dar Digest (story ‘Muhafiz’), February 2015. Free from the fetters of common natural laws, horror stories represent a society’s fears and prejudices.
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Delays in setting up disarmament camps for former guerillas have cast doubt on the Colombian government’s commitment to peace. But the real problem is its national history.
The Syrian Democratic Forces were excluded from the latest round of peace talks.
Rodi Said/Reuters
Although the uprising in Syria will mark its sixth anniversary this month, the Syrian war has far from run its course.
‘Neither criminals nor illegals’: activists painted the U.S.-Mexico border in protest against US President Donald Trump’s new immigration reform.
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The country is now compelled to send its army into an area where a major resource extraction project has failed to deliver on its promises to landowners.
Children wave Albanian and Kosovar flags for Kosovo independence day, February 2016.
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Recent events in France have triggered more tensions in the Balkans. But analysis should focus on regional tendencies to lean towards Russia or the US than on catastrophic scenarios.
The Somali election didn’t deliver the long-awaited universal suffrage, but was another exercise in limited democracy that extended only to a small part of the population.
Members of French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron’s team have accused Russia of hacking the campaign.
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In Nagaland, a northeastern state in India, the push to implement a law giving women more representation in local politics has triggered a violent backlash.
By appointing generals to top political posts and hiking defence spending, Donald Trump is imperiling a cherished tenet of the US constitution: civilian control of the military.
A woman waits to be registered at a food distribution centre run by the United Nations World Food Programme in Thonyor, Leer state, South Sudan.
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Nearly half of South Sudan’s population could be severely food insecure and at risk of death in the coming months because of the avoidable acts of civil war in a land of plenty.
Urban and social art at the first edition of ‘Neighbours’ festival in Katowice, in 2014.
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