Ulf Kristersson will be prime minister, but with a tiny majority he will be heavily dependent on the nationalist right in government.
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Russia moved significant numbers of troops and equipment south to met the Ukraine offensive in the Kherson region.
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Like the artist himself, Brett Morgen’s film about David Bowie defies convention to create an extraordinary audiovisual tapestry of an endlessly creative life.
Public universities in Nigeria have been bedevilled by lecturers’ strikes for years. To break the cycle, the union insists the institutions should be adequately funded.
The Queen in Manitoba during a 1970 royal tour.
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Queen Elizabeth harnessed goodwill from Canadians mostly as an individual, rather than as the hereditary head of an institution. But her death will lead to debate about the relevance of the monarchy.
The queen’s visits to Australia from 1954 to 2011 offer a snapshot of the changing relationship Australians have had with their sovereign and with the monarchy.
Over the 70 years of her reign, Queen Elizabeth II has been part of Aotearoa New Zealand’s living history, touching everything from the role of women to the Treaty of Waitangi.
Queen Elizabeth II during a 1983 tour of California.
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The new queen was a subversive model for American women of the 1950s, and many traveled to London for her coronation. Their daughters and granddaughters will be among those mourning the monarch’s death.
Queen Elizabeth touring the secretariat of Karu Local council, near Nigeria’s capital Abuja in 2003.
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As an anthropologist, I have chronicled the digital nomad lifestyle for the past seven years. The reality is far less glamorous than you might imagine
‘Kherson is Ukraine’: a show of support for the counteroffensive that aims to push Russian troops out of the southern region.
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Not only is it important to ask questions and find the answers, as a scientist I felt obligated to communicate with the world what we were learning
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Salman Rushdie, great writer and outspoken defender of writers’ freedom of expression, has been under a fatwa for more than 30 years. He’s set to recover from a shock stabbing last Friday in New York.
The IMF sends its staff on two types of mission to member countries: to assess the state of the country’s macro economy or to assess the need for financial support.
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