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Despite good news, the Western Balkans are in trouble
Dimitar Bechev On March 30, the North Macedonian flag was flown for the first time in front of NATO’s headquarters…
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We are heading for a pensions apartheid
Ian Cowie Might middle-class savers’ dreams of financial security in old age be among the less obvious but most long-felt…
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US coronavirus cases top 100,000; Italy deaths
The number of people infected with the novel coronavirus in the United States hit more than 104,000 early on Saturday,…
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Gantz angers supporters as Israel moves towards unity government
Israel appeared headed for a unity government on Friday after opposition leader Benny Gantz moved towards an agreement with Prime…
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What the sanitisation of Haqqanis means for Pakistan-US relations
On February 20, days before the signing of a landmark deal between the US and the Taliban in Qatar’s capital, Doha, American “paper…
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Preparing for a post-pandemic world
Politics, people and markets are similar in how they respond to crisis, from natural disaster, to financial slump, to the…
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FGM is about men. They must help end it
The minute a girl is born into a society that accepts female genital mutilation (FGM), her life is mapped. Her…
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UCSC teaching assistant strike: Revolt of the academic subalterns
On February 28, the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) fired 82 teaching assistants for demanding higher pay to afford…
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What it means to love a dead child
First, forget everything you think you know about grief. The rules do not apply when it is your child that…
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‘Butchered’: The Kenyan FGM clinic serving Europeans
In a “good month”, about 100 girls will be brought by their families to Halima Hirsi’s* underground clinic in Nairobi…
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