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Nowadays, the West can be described as decadent. That does not mean simply that we are addicted to “bread and circuses,” from welfare programmes in...

Matteo Renzi is struggling to regain the political initiative after a disastrous spell during which he lost his job as prime minister and his party...

By Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani ABUJA, July 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Handed over by her mother to an agent at the age of 10, Titi was crammed into a...

The career of Sergei Yeliseyev helps to explain why Ukraine's armed forces gave up Crimea almost without a fight - and why NATO now says it is alert to...

Across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), technology hubs are emerging. Whether it’s in the Beirut Digital District or the GrEEK campus in Cairo,...

Many people equate the European Union with Europe, overlooking a few nuances along the way. From a historical point of view, of course, it is clear that the...

Unfounded skepticism about vaccines in some communities, in developing and developed countries alike, has emerged in recent years as one of the most serious...

When South African university students took to the streets in 2016 as part of the “Fees Must Fall” protest movement, the “decolonisation of the...

By Sangita Bakaya Lucknow, Jul 23 (PTI) Mayawati's political adversaries might term her dramatic resignation as a gimmick, but analysts say the astute...

The Economist was right when it recently reported that Germany’s current-account surplus is too high. But why is the German surplus too high? Some say...