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In the wake of the NATO and Helsinki summits, many liberals have been tempted to condemn US President Donald Trump’s behaviour in personal terms. His...

If something is impossible, it does not happen. If a country votes to make two plus two equal five, this “democratic decision” will eventually be...

By Charles Mkoka ZOMBA, Malawi, July 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As climate change brings longer droughts, farmers in eastern Malawi's already dry...

Every year, Neelabeni and her family await the monsoon with trepidation in their mud-and-brick home in an informal settlement near the coast in the eastern...

Five years ago, tour guide Wayan Aksara noticed that more and more visitors he showed around the Indonesian island of Bali were complaining about garbage on...

Underneath a sign reading "Jesus was a refugee", a line of Venezuelan asylum seekers 30 people long stretches in front of a Catholic church in...

When the Caribbean island of Barbuda was battered by Hurricane Irma last September, about 90 per cent of homes were destroyed or damaged, and the entire...

Officials at the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) have long insisted that “China won’t weaponise the renminbi.” And yet, implicit in their promise not...

One of the central challenges facing the world’s advanced economies is slowing growth. Over the last decade, growth rates in the advanced economies have...