Features
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Inside South Africa’s Operation Dudula vigilantes: ‘Why we hate foreigners’
BBC Africa Eye has gained rare access to members of the country’s most-prominent anti-migrant street movement. Ayanda Charlie in Johannesburg…
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Rethinking Engagement with North Korea
Last year, North Korea’s marked increase in missile launches was widely interpreted as a bid to sharpen its capability to target…
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A Welcome Humanitarian Deal between the U.S. and Iran
The agreement has much to recommend it, despite what critics say. ICG The Biden administration has just completed implementing the…
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Antarctic sea-ice at ‘mind-blowing’ low alarms experts
“It’s so far outside anything we’ve seen, it’s almost mind-blowing,” says Walter Meier, who monitors sea-ice with the National Snow…
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Letter shows Vatican knew about Nazi death camps despite long denial
The documentation undercuts the Holy See’s argument that it couldn’t verify diplomatic reports of Nazi atrocities to denounce them. Nicole…
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Mexican police officers convicted over 2021 migrant killings
The bodies of 17 migrants were found in a burnt-out vehicle in the town of Camargo in Tamaulipas state. BBC…
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UNRWA’s Reckoning: Preserving the UN Agency Serving Palestinian Refugees
But the agency’s finances are in dire straits, putting the refugees’ wellbeing at risk. Donors should step up with sustainable,…
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What drives the Sino-Iranian Partnership?
Iran and China established diplomatic relations in 1971 Ahmed S. Cheema The National Interest It was a significant milestone in…
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Massacre in Goma Clouds DR Congo’s Elections and UN Mission’s Future
The government has asked the UN for an “accelerated” withdrawal. Crisis Group experts Richard Moncrieff and Onesphore Sematumba explain the…
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Understanding Saudi Arabia’s Recalibrated Foreign Policy
Yet unless the kingdom makes further changes on both the diplomatic and domestic fronts, its aspirations are likely to run…
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Friday essay: homesick for ourselves – the hidden grief of ageing
But in a quieter, more private way, the expression seems perfectly pitched to describe the largely hidden grief of ageing.…
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Italian Trawler Arrested in The Gambia with “Sustainably Caught Shrimp” Bound for Europe
An industrialized trawler named Twenty—with connections to an Italian fishing company—was arrested in West Africa by Gambian Navy sailors stationed…
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Julian Assange: more than 60 Australian MPs urge US to let WikiLeaks founder walk free
More than 60 Australian federal politicians have explicitly called on the US to drop the prosecution of Julian Assange, warning of…
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Libya’s floods are result of climate crisis meeting a failed state
When the climate crisis meets a failed state, the outcome is the kind of disaster that Libya is witnessing in Derna. Patrick…
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Putin-Erdogan Meeting Shows Turkey Unfit to Mediate Between Russia and Ukraine (Part Two)
*Read Part One. The Kremlin offered Turkey several major, highly attractive business projects at the bilateral summit in Sochi on…
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Energy authority chairman calls for hydrogen-powered future
Chairman of the Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority (CERA) Andreas Poullikkas has stressed the importance of urban energy transition, particularly as…
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