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Vladimir Putin’s aggressive nuclear strategy threatens to unpick decades of careful negotiation.
Anger pits young people against police following an accusation of police brutality.
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An officer is under investigation for rape, a young man is in hospital, and people want answers.
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The story of Trevor Thomas.
Who are you going to call?
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IS has proved very adept at fending off massive conventional forces – but that doesn’t mean crack private security teams would do any better.
Blaming fathers for the problems of their children doesn’t work.
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Fathers aren’t to blame for all of their childrens’ problems.
The four main candidates.
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Just a month after moving into the Élysée Palace, the new president will face the country’s parliamentary elections.
Trump and Shinzo Abe making friends.
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Beware the ‘clasp and yank’.
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Thanks to the US’s polarised politics, presidents beloved abroad are controversial at home.
Afghans protest at a refugee camp in Athens in early February.
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There are double standards underlying the difficulties faced by Afghan asylum seekers in the West.
Michael Flynn’s departure has left the White House under a cloud.
EPA/Jim Lo Scalzo
Losing a national security adviser is one thing – weeks and months of slow-drip crises is quite another.
Daniel Blake.
Joss Barratt
Meet the real Daniel Blakes.
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As with so many other areas of policy, Trump vacillates from one pole to another on Israel.
Nathan Williams
Another ‘last chance’ has been missed. But while talks disintegrate, islanders are just getting on with peace in practice.
‘I wish this book was a smart phone.’
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Dating apps are convenient – but they lack the sensuality craved by Victorian aesthetes.
Reforms to the benefits system have faced severe delays and left people struggling.
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Fewer than half a million people are currently receiving the new, simplified benefit according to newly released data.
Ewan Munro
Pre-referendum polling suggested South Asian voters were quite pro-Remain, but more recent data tells another story.
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After World War II, psychologists identified character traits that explained why so many people were complicit in Hitler’s crimes. Are we seeing something similar now?
King of all he surveys?
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The divine right of kings was dismantled after a bloody conflict nearly 400 years ago. The impulse which led to that change should protect us from the reign of the White House emperor.
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Government departments have been squeezed particularly hard over the past few years. Now they need to find thousands of people who can work out how to leave the EU.
Faded glory.
EPA/Facundo Arrizabalaga
All the politicians and journalists claim to care about Stoke, but none of them live here.
A heroine no more.
EPA/Hein Htet
Long regarded as something approaching a saint, Myanmar’s de facto head of state appears to be running out of moral capital.
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New research suggests the road to bribery is more of a steep cliff than a slippery slope.
Monotony, loneliness, trauma, isolation and alienation create a demand for drugs inside.
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A BBC report has revealed the extent of drug use in UK prisons. It will be difficult to tackle the problem without a radical review of sentencing practices.
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Great powers are often deadly rivals, but their leaders can still learn to communicate properly.
Getting on with it.
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Could the Iraqi army’s banner offensive against IS tear it apart?