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First-round voting confirmed that populist president Rafael Correa’s AP movement is still Ecuador’s most powerful political force. But the right is gaining strength.
Romania’s ongoing protests against a bold move by the government to decriminalise corruption has highlighted greater social and political issues.
Russia has managed to regain, at least in part, its role as a powerful interlocutor in the Middle East, which it lost after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Scientists have discovered seven Earth-sized planets packed around a dim star.
The best of global cinema from Germany to Iran and Vanuatu.
Using nerve agents is banned under the Chemical Weapons Convention, but North Korea is not a party to it.
Donald Trump is only the most recent in a long line of US presidents who have overestimated their ability to manage the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Female scientists publish more and better research but are promoted less. New research from Mexico exposes gender gap in science there, and across the globe.
The only thing needed for Europe to leap towards further political integration is for French and German heads of state to support it.
Donald Trump is wildly unpopular with Mexicans. But so, too, is President Enrique Peña Nieto, putting him in a tough position for this week’s high-level American official visit to Mexico.
When technology evolves, it affects not only your financial position but also your ability to exercise other choices.
It’s past time to dismantle the (often invisible) barriers that keep people with disabilities less healthy, employed and educated than other groups worldwide.
Artificial intelligence is surrounded by fear and mystery because very few understand its inner workings. But it’s actually rather intuitive and far simpler than it seems.
A new study of captive dolphins has found that those engaging in synchronised swimming make more optimistic judgements about an unknown event.
An adversarial international commission of inquiry, similar to one instituted to resolve a dispute between Britain and Russia in 1905, could break the deadlock over the downed flight.
The demonetisation drive has made the banking sector healthier but failed to curb ‘black money’.
Joaquin Guzmán is Mexico’s worst ‘bad hombre’, but his extradition to the US won’t stop the Sinaloa Cartel.
2017 could be the year of the far-right in Europe, and spell the end of the EU.
What can Colombia can learn from other nations’ transitions, both successful and unsuccessful, from war to peace?
Are the the hauntings at Landour just practical fictions amidst the solitude of the hills?
There are fundamental differences between Libya and Turkey, when it comes to returning migrants.
Most of Trump’s positions go against the principles accepted by the United Nations. The new Secretary-General will have to try to find areas of mutual concern to work with the new US administration.
Caught out by the side effects of the Syrian civil war and deteriorating relations with the EU and the US, Turkey now appears to be in search of South-South cooperation.
Churchill allowed science to flourish. Without a similar attitude in today’s politics, we may hit a bottleneck for life that leaves a Universe without a single human soul to enjoy it.