With its tales of bloody violence, corruption, international trade and entrepreneurial innovation, Guzmán’s trial offers a telenovela-style explainer on Mexican cartels and their American clients.
Celebrations for Kumbh Mela, 2019.
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Kumbh Mela is the world’s largest congregation of people – so large, it’s visible from space. However, river pollution is a major issue here and new solutions are needed.
Garbage piled up in the opposition-held city of Afrin, Syria, in March 2018.
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Keeping the water and power on, managing sewers and collecting garbage will help communities shattered by the Syrian civil war rebuild – and keep out the Islamic State, says a former aid official.
Al-Shabaab’s first attack on Kenyan soil was in 2008. Since then the Kenyan government has responded with force.
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Kenya is attacked far more than Ethiopia or other eastern African states by al-Shabaab militants.
Guatemalans overwhelmingly support the United Nations-backed corruption investigation known as CICIG. President Jimmy Morales is trying to ban prosecutors from the country.
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Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales is defying a constitutional court order to release a UN-backed prosecutor his government arrested and allow his corruption investigation to continue.
Supporters of former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo celebrate on the announcement of his acquittal.
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Professor in Practice on Environmental Innovation, School of Social and Environmental Sustainability, University of Glasgow, UK, National University of Singapore