The Georgian men’s national team celebrate after winning their match against Portugal, setting themselves up for a last-16 tie against Spain.
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Georgia’s football team has surpassed expectations as political turmoil rumbles on at home.
Virat Kohli of India celebrates after the final run is scored during the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup match between India and Pakistan in October 2022.
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Tickets are going for as high as $40,000 on the secondary market.
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The relationship between neighbours Australia and Indonesia has gone through major swings. Could the green transition offer a win-win?
On 28 February 2024, deputies of the Moldovan secessionist republic of Transnistria voted by a show of hands to request Russia’s help.
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It is often said that Transnistria will be “the next domino” that Moscow will try to knock down, after Crimea and Donbass. However, the famous domino theory has its limits.
Burundian military officers arrive in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to tackle the rise of militias in the region.
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The RED-Tabara armed group operates out of the DRC’s volatile eastern region, which shares a porous 243km border with Burundi.
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Paris will be at the centre of the global sporting stage this summer.
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Maxim Samson speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the hidden lines that explain variations in everything from access to education to animal species
Chinese president, Xi Jinping, claps during the closing meeting of the Two Sessions annual parliamentary meetings.
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China is facing many economic obstacles, but Beijing remains optimistic about growth.
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The Olympic Games have also been highly political events – Paris 2024 will be no different.
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The effects of AI’s growth on global security could be difficult to predict.
Made it, Mao! Top of the World?
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Most Americans see China as the biggest threat to the US. But away from headline economic figures, China has a slew of challenges.
Lionel Messi continues to face anger from Chinese fans for missing a game in Hong Kong.
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Messi will not start a war in China, but this is not to say that football lacks political relevance.
Border conflicts, spanning different time periods and places, are behind many of the big international disputes today.
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Religious, racial and class-based differences often get politicized.
Solar panels pave a square in Zadar, Croatia.
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Modellers of the energy transition have tended to neglect fractious international relations in their calculations.
Rolling out the red carpet for presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping.
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It’s good to talk − just don’t expect it to result in a reset in relations between Beijing and Washington.
Dark clouds over the United Nations in New York.
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At the United Nations and elsewhere, the response by the US and Western Europe to events in Israel and Gaza have been out of step with that of governments in Africa, South America and Asia.
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How can the world regulate AI? Europe’s comprehensive approach, China’s tightly targeted laws, and America’s dramatic executive order hint at three ways forward.
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Pretoria needs to pull off a balancing act in managing South Africa’s international relations to advance its economic interests.
Public pressure for greater sanctions on Russia also affects western companies that have not yet left the country.
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Research aims to provide a better idea about why some multinationals are ‘trapped’ in Russia following its invasion of Ukraine.
Leaders of African American, Latino and Native American communities protest the name of the Washington Redskins, November, 2013.
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The book makes invaluable contributions to subjects of race, identity and belonging and how they shape human interrelations.