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If Britain remains in the European Union due to a botched Brexit, its demands for special treatment will end up wrecking the EU.

The Fall Armyworm pest is continuing to sweep across the globe, having moved eastwards from their native Americas, onto Africa, before arriving in Asia only last summer, where they now threaten to cost farmers from India to Thailand, billions of dollars in lost production. 

A new space race may be on, but the United States should opt for peaceful exploration rather than military presence.

Expressing deep concern at the “magnitude and gravity of the human rights impact” of Venezuela’s current crisis, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said on Wednesday that the country had become “a worrying destabilizing factor in the region.”

A United Nations appeals court on Wednesday increased the 40-year sentence initially imposed on Radovan Karadžić, former leader of the Republika Srpksa region of Bosnia and head of the Bosnian-Serb Army, to life imprisonment.

Joe Biden is the only candidate for the White House with a foreign-policy philosophy that’s proven to work.

Pro-Iran factions are pushing for the move just as the Islamic State is starting to hit back.

Predicting that the “days ahead will prove foundational to the years ahead for Libyans and the region”, the top United Nations official in the country told the Security Council on Wednesday, that it was no exaggeration to describe the oil-rich nation as having reached “a crucial juncture”.

The Trump administration says countering Beijing’s cyber and commercial power should be a priority for the alliance.

Telle qu'elle est définie et programmée dans le traité de Maastricht, l'Union économique et monétaire (UEM) est avant tout l'expression d'un choix politique en faveur d'une complète intégration européenne. Ce choix intervient à un moment où les contraintes économiques au sein des Douze semblent rendre (...) / Intégration régionale, Monnaie - 1992/09

In its trade standoff with the United States, China’s Ace could be the 737 Max.

South-South cooperation is key to the world’s sustainable development and the fight against global warming said the United Nations Secretary-General on Wednesday, as the opening session of the Second UN Conference on South-South Cooperation got underway in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires. 

As the full scale of the devastation caused by Cyclone Idai in southern Africa continues to be assessed, the UN and humanitarian partners are ramping up the provision of emergency food, shelter, water and health care supplies to hundreds-of-thousands who have been affected across Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe.

Si odieusement réprimées, les émeutes d'octobre en Algérie étaient prévisibles. En raison de la baisse de la rente pétrolière, les autorités — comme dans beaucoup de pays du tiers-monde — ont dû modifier le modèle de développement et favoriser l'expansion du secteur privé. Dans une société bloquée, contrôlée (...) / Algérie, Société civile, Politique, Économie, Répression - 1988/11

Americans aren’t the only one paying for the process.

 

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The British debacle is shoring up the EU center as it heads into critical May elections.

The long-time autocrat's shock resignation kicks off an opaque succession process.

When countries of the Global South forged an historic technical cooperation deal among themselves 40 years ago, digital technology was a thing of the future, but developing nations have come a long way since then.

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