Incoming president Lula faces many challenges.
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Brazil’s president has some significant struggles ahead to bring the country together.
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Black footballers in the game are given lower scores for technical or cognitive ability than white players.
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A policing expert on how ‘bad apples’ are supposed to be vetted and dealt with in UK police forces.
Highly effective: Britain’s Challenger 2 tank.
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New supplies of advanced weaponry and training will further integrate Ukraine into Nato’s defensive system.
Poland’s president Andrzej Duda.
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Poland’s robust arguments for more weapons for Ukraine is partly sparked by its own vulnerable position.
New research used qualitative interviews to understand what was driving athletes to consume alcohol.
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New research suggests senior athletes use binge drinking culture to display dominance over novices.
Nurses striking in the winter of 2022 and 2023.
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Originally from Richard III, the phrase was used by a power-hungry autocrat who preferred chaos over peace.
Matteo Messina Denaro is pictured in the back of a police car following his arrest.
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The mafia boss is the last known face of the Cosa Nostra crime syndicate. But his capture represents the end of an era, not the end of the mafia in Sicily.
National fervour: ethnic Serbs protest in Northern Mitrovica in Kosovo.
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Leaders on both sides are ramping up hostility for their own ends.
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Instead of framing discussions about the UK population in terms of a white majority and “non-white” minorities, complexity should be the focus. Britain is increasingly diverse and less segregated.
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War is changing, but the laws that govern it stay the same.
Hand in glove: former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro presiding over the inauguration of General Edson Leal Pujol as chief of the army in 2019.
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Brazil’s military portrays itself as guardian of the country’s democracy when it has often been anything but.
LRA commander Dominic Ongwen at the International Criminal Court in 2016.
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Dominic Ongwen was the first person to use the defence of duress at the International Criminal Court.
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From throwing soup over works of art to waving tortillas in the street, what we eat is a powerful emblem of what we want.
Dilemma: some on the left blame Nato for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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The left was split over whether Nato expansion had prompted the Ukraine invasion or whether it was an act of imperial aggression that must be opposed.
Devotion: a BTS fan stands outside the barracks in which Jin is completing his military training.
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More countries are using ‘national service’, whether they are military or civic programmes.
Kosovo Force and Kosovo Border Police conduct a joint patrol on the administrative boundary line between Kosovo and Serbia.
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Russia’s backing of Serbia during the Ukraine war is aggravating tensions with its neighbour Kosovo.
Many people in Turkey believe in a conspiracy theory about the 1923 Lausanne treaty.
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Around 43% of university graduates in Turkey believe a conspiracy theory that secret clauses are about to be revealed from a 100-year-old treaty.
Belief in conspiracy theories is often linked to lack of trust in institutions.
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Millions of British people believe in at least one conspiracy theory, but research shows how to tackle them.
Fierce fighting continues in the Bakhmut area in Donbas, eastern Ukraine.
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Some of the key articles from our coverage of the war in Ukraine over the past week.
Fierce fighting has devastated the town of Soledar in eastern Ukraine.
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Russia appears to have refocused on the land war with the aim of taking more territory.
Self-identification will relieve trans people of the (often distressing) medical scrutiny that has historically been required.
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Simplifying how people change their gender will be helpful to trans people, but the government’s latest move risks prolonging a toxic debate.
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The public still does not know what the opposition party stands for. Inspiration could come from a surprising source.
NHS workers would be subject to tough new strike laws being proposed by prime minister Rishi Sunak.
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The strikes (minimum service levels) bill making its way through parliament potentially means employers can block named workers from taking industrial action.
Most wonderful time of the year, even while there’s a war on.
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Alex Titov took a trip home to St Petersburg in December. Here’s what he found.