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The Hong Kong crisis and the new world order
With the UK opening its doors to three million Hong Kong residents and China threatening serious retaliation for what it sees as an intrusion into its domestic affairs, the Hong Kong crisis is becoming a real-time test of diplomacy in a pandemic-distracted world. ...
How 'quacks' are guarding Indian villages against Covid-19
When a group of villagers in India's West Bengal state recently insisted that they would hold prayers in their local mosque in violation of social distancing rules amid the coronavirus pandemic, Mohammed Nizamuddin sprung into action. ...
Coronavirus: What's behind alarming new US outbreaks?
As coronavirus outbreaks are slowly brought to heel in many places around the world, the US is among a handful of countries facing a surge of new infections. ...
Coronavirus: What's behind alarming new US outbreaks?
As coronavirus outbreaks are slowly brought to heel in many places around the world, the US is among a handful of countries facing a surge of new infections. ...
What's going on between Russia, US and Afghanistan?
What are we to make of the reports that have surfaced in the past few days that Russian military intelligence agents were offering money to Taliban fighters to kill US and possibly other Western service personnel? How true are these reports? Can they be substantiated? And what is their real significance? ...
Coronavirus: Why US is expecting an 'avalanche' of evictions
As hair salons, churches and restaurants reopen across the US, so are eviction courts. Advocates and experts say that an unprecedented crush of evictions is coming, threatening millions of Americans with homelessness as a possible second wave of the pandemic looms. ...
Raised in the UK - barred from university
The difficulties faced by the children of migrant families brought up in the UK have been described as a potential "second Windrush-style scandal". It's often not until they are finishing school that they realise they are not British citizens and do not have the same rights as the children they've grown up with. ...
Coronavirus: 'Very significant' resurgences in Europe alarm WHO
Europe has seen an increase in weekly cases of Covid-19 for the first time in months as restrictions imposed to curb the spread of the virus are eased, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. ...
Will the 'War on Terror' ever end?
Last weekend's deadly knife attack in Reading, west of London, has been an uncomfortable reminder that the threat of terrorism has not gone away. But what about the so-called War on Terror, as declared by US President George W Bush in 2001? Is it still going on? And if not, has it been a triumph or a massive waste of money? ...
Coronavirus: Are Australia's numbers at risk of escalating?
Australia has been hailed as a global success story in suppressing the spread of Covid-19. ...
Climate change: Planting new forests 'can do more harm than good'
Rather than benefiting the environment, large-scale tree planting may do the opposite, two new studies have found. ...
'Cashpoint aid' and Africa: Who benefits?
Across Africa the news that a former colonial power, the UK, is to take a more strategic, political, hard-nosed approach to the way it spends its overseas aid budget, has been greeted with a mixture of frustration and cynicism. ...
Coronavirus: Is the pandemic getting worse in the US?
The news in the US has been dominated by anti-racism protests for the past couple of weeks, but coronavirus is now back in the headlines. ...
Galwan Valley: The soldiers killed in the India-China border clash
India is mourning the deaths of 20 soldiers who died in a clash with Chinese forces in the disputed Himalayan region of Ladakh. ...
Trump's bid to end Obama-era immigration policy ruled unlawful
The US Supreme Court has ruled against President Donald Trump's bid to end a programme that protects hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation. ...
Why Trump's plan to withdraw US troops has dismayed Germany
For the people of Grafenwoehr, Elvis will always be the king. ...
North Korea: What's behind the liaison office demolition?
North Korea has followed through on a threat to demolish a joint liaison office with the South, causing alarm around the world. ...
George Floyd death eases tensions between two communities
Youa Vang Lee was at her home in Minneapolis when her son showed her the video of George Floyd dying under a police officer's knee. Lee, a 59-year-old Laotian immigrant who assembles medical supplies at a factory, heard Floyd cry out for his mother. It triggered a deep and familiar pain. ...
From the archives: How do you decide when a statue must fall?
We name buildings after people, or put up statues to them, because we respect them. But what if we then discover they did wrong? In what cases should the building be renamed, or the statue be removed, asks the AFP's in-house philosopher, David Edmonds. ...
George Floyd protests: What do 'thug', 'white privilege' and 'ally' mean?
These are just a few of the words and phrases you may have seen or heard in discussions about racial inequality after the death of George Floyd. ...
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