Russia is pursuing influence in Central Asia and competing with the US. Afghanistan offers it a chance to do both.
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Established media organisations are collaborating across borders and with new media to break big stories such as global tax avoidance by the rich and powerful.
Scotland’s former first minister has sparked outrage in the UK with his latest move.
Theresa May’s need to balance Brexiteers and Remainers in her cabinet means that the foreign secretary can get away with an alarming level of incompetence.
There is a battle of Buddhisms taking place on the streets of Myanmar.
Now the war is over, academia has a special role to play in securing the peace.
The French president’s exciting new philosophy is to be neither right or left. In practice, that really just means reinforcing the status quo.
A kingdom under pressure is fomenting crisis elsewhere.
Two revolutions, 400 years apart, set in chain processes that claimed millions of lives.
Now citizens have a louder voice than ever, the UK badly needs to decide on its role in the world.
With the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic a sticking point, negotiators could pick up some tips from how it was done last time.
We can’t solve this problem until we acknowledge some deep-rooted beliefs about male and female roles in sex and relationships.
It’s not a witch hunt, it’s not a joke and it really does matter.
Letters home reveal what is was like to be an Indian soldier in World War II.
What lies ahead for IS after Mosul, Raqqa and tens of thousands of casualties?
Putting money into the hands of local communities will be a more useful antidote to the whims of world capitalism.
A president who apparently never laughs, Trump inspires mockery on an unprecedented scale.
It took more than one person to bring down the Roman Empire, but the moral decay started somewhere.
The question is less why women are speaking up and more why are they only now being heard?
The families of armed forces personnel feel alienated in civilian company and need more understanding from the general public.
The reconviction rates of children put in institutions was lower than it is today, new research shows.
What does it mean to have a cosmopolitan identity?
The Nazi fuhrer’s story about his ‘resurrection’ in 1918 is an important lesson for today.
The uncertainty itself could amount to infringing on the right to private and family life.
Concerns over examining the Grenfell Tower disaster have been seen before.