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The UK can count asylum seeker housing for 12 months as international aid.
Brazil’s president Lula met with US president Joe Biden in February 2023.
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Brazil’s new leader is treading a fine line between China and the US in his foreign policy.
Donald Trump’s supporters do not seem dissuaded from voting for him despite an upcoming court case, polls suggest.
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The US constitution would not restrict Donald Trump from running for president, even if he is in the middle of a court case, or was convicted.
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The illegal migration bill is performative politics that allows the Conservatives to blame opponents ahead of a key election.
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The pandemic has seen more and more full-time employees working fully remotely – and seeking out cheaper, warmer places in which to do so. Property price hikes show the impact on local communities.
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After a pandemic and over a decade of public spending cuts, young people need investment not punishment.
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A selection of our coverage of the conflict over the past fortnight.
A woman walks past a polling station in Havana during the March 2023 election.
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Cubans turned out in higher numbers than expected at the recent elections.
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Your subconscious sense of identity can influence how much your accent changes.
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Friendly fire incidents have always been a feature of war, but the array of different countries’ equipment makes it very challenging for Ukrainian troops in the field.
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What started as a short military operation will now take years and years. Changing its tune is all in a day’s work for the Kremlin.
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Mass protests against the government’s plans to weaken the judiciary have exposed the deep divisions in Israel’s civil society.
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The entry into the UK’s broadcasting market of new, more outspoken, players is challenging traditional ideas of impartiality in TV news and current affairs.
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Prioritising economic growth without a plan to curb exploitative business practices is not a solution. The UK needs a return to the forward-thinking social reforms of 1945.
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The UK is now the only democracy where the children of formerly colonised people are running the country that colonised their parents’ and grandparents’ nations.
Russian rhetoric about Ukraine echoes language used in the second world war by the Soviets seeking to stem independence movements. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin insisted on Ukraine getting a separate vote to the USSR at the United Nations, even though it wasn’t an independent state.
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Putin’s rhetoric over Ukraine has roots in the end of the second world war, attitudes explained by Paul Winterton, a British journalist at the time.
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Broad definitions mean almost anything can be classed as antisocial behaviour.
Uganda president Yoweri Museveni thinks homosexuality is “disgusting”.
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It seems likely that Uganda’s president, who has described homosexuality as ‘disgusting’ will pass this bill into law.
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The SNP’s new leader only just squeaked over the line against his rivals, which is a bad sign for his ambition to take Scotland out of the UK.
Crimea: as pro-Moscow citizens celebrate nine years of Russian occupation, talk of Kyiv’s plans to retake the peninsula grows louder.
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Russia is reportedly preparing massive defences to prevent a lightning offensive to retake the occupied peninsula.
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But there are other techniques professional investigators use to test the plausibility of people’s stories.
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The deputy prime minister insists he just has high expectations of his staff but that is not what ‘professionalism’ really means.
China’s president Xi met with the King of Saudi Arabia Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud in 2017.
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Chinese leadership of a peace deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia, adds to their power in the region.
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Beliefs about language are never just about language. They reflect institutional power dynamics.
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There seems to be a vacuum for these influencers to fill.