US president Donald Trump has mastered the art of political storytelling.
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What do Nelson Mandela, Chairman Mao and Spanish politician Pablo Iglesias have in common with Donald Trump?
Then-crown prince Maha Vajiralongkorn attends an event commemorating the death of his father King Bhumibol.
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King Rama X is transforming the nominal powers granted by the constitution into real powers to be exercised at his own discretion, restoring a hybrid form of monarchical rule in the Land of Smiles.
Mass inside the church dedicated to our Lady of Good Health in Valenkanni, Tamil Nadu.
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A common place of worship in India and Pakistan offers solace and bonds religious minorities in Pakistan.
Globally the frequency of natural disasters has more than doubled over the past 35 years.
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Wetlands management is vital but sweeping statements about their universal value may do more harm than good.
A man flies a kite at the Peace Park in San José, Costa Rica.
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Environmental sustainability has a role in increasing national well-being.
Can Europe prove that it’s capable of finding energy in its contradictions and differences and reinvent itself as a place the whole world respects?
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According to German public intellectual Claus Offe, Europe faces multiple crises but is not down and out yet.
People protest Donald Trump’s travel ban from Muslim majority countries at Los Angeles International Airport.
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When politics of compassion are replaced by binary visions of the world, we – scholars, media and civil society – should be able to provide challenging tools in the migration debate.
Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto’s meeting with Donald Trump during the campaign proved wildly unpopular with the Mexico people.
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What’s cooler than standing up to a bully?
For Brazilian citizens, it sometimes feels like the whole country is on fire right now.
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Things keep getting worse for South America’s most populous nation and biggest economy. What is going on, Brazil?
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What’s the proper way to behave at a Holocaust memorial? Is that even the right question?
Only long-term integration policies will keep people safe from appalling camps conditions.
Yannis Behrakis/Reuters
The 60,000 people currently stuck in Greece will probably have to stay there. The EU should help them integrate.
Czar Dancel/Reuters
Politics is a world for which show business celebrities are perfectly adapted and their predominance in the Philippines offers a glimpse of what televisual populism could look like in other countries.
Kenyans marching in solidarity with Americans and women worldwide to protest the sexist statements of president Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump has done what decades of American feminism could not: unite women worldwide in solidarity.
Can basic income become a worldwide policy?
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The arguments for an universal basic income have emerged from a rising disillusionment in classic economics and expectations of more security.
Demonetisation is just the latest example of post-truth politics at work.
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Only by privileging an English-speaking, Western position can we say that ‘post-truth’ emerged in 2016.
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What we need now is unblinkered analysis and coordinated progressive political action beyond the extreme centre at both the national and international levels.
Who’s stronger?
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Populists now run the United States, Russia, Turkey, and the Philippines — as well as many Latin American and African nations. What does this mean for the world?
Donald Trump raises his fist after being sworn in as the 45th president of the United States
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The world is on edge as Donald Trump enters the White House.
A ‘Global Britain’ may be difficult to achieve.
Facundo Arrizabalaga
Theresa May will find that having a seat at the table is not the same as being on the wrong side of it.
Chinese dredging vessels are purportedly seen in the waters around Mischief Reef in the disputed Spratly Islands of the South China Sea.
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The Trump Administration is likely to be more aggressive about resisting China in the South China Sea and more forceful about preventing the erosion of America’s position in the western Pacific.