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By Yeganeh Torbati and Omar Mohammed WASHINGTON/KAKUMA, KENYA, Sept 12 (Reuters) - On Jan. 19, 2017, Aden Hassan’s long wait to start a new life ended...

Times of Oman designers depict a world around them through illustrations everyday, either to enhance the visual elements of a story or as a standalone...

It is an image that became a symbol of the global financial crisis -- about 20 bankers, their backs turned to the window, attending an emergency meeting at...

Every day seems to bring a new revelation about Russia’s political meddling in Western countries. From Twitter trolls sowing discord among voters, to the...

For most critics of globalization, trade is the villain, responsible for deepening inequality and rising economic insecurity among workers. This is the...

Imagine two countries. Country A has a fiscal deficit of slightly over 5 per cent of GDP, while country B shows a gaping hole of nearly 9 per cent....

The decision by US President Donald Trump’s administration to stop funding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near...

By Dominic Kirui KISAJU, Kenya, Sept 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Early every morning on school holidays and weekends, Eric Ndung’u heads off to herd...

Scarcely had I begun my first lecture of the fall semester here at the University of California, Berkeley, when I realized that I was too hot. I desperately...

Joseph Stiglitz, Roger Farmer, and I are now and have long been in agreement on what are probably the most important points. The “New Keynesian”...