Tag: global affairs
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With Russia’s key partner in the Middle East on the ropes, the Kremlin runs the risk of being drawn into a broader conflict it cannot afford. So far, Putin has… more ›
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“A few years ago, no one would have imagined that one of the biggest democracies in the world would cancel research programs under the pretext that the word… https://countercurrents.org/2025/05/americas-great-brain-drain/?utm_source=perplexity more ›
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Over the first half of 2025, the USA has cut science as never before. This disaster for American science is a gift to the rest of the world. Throughout the… more ›
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Private security work can be a brutal world of short-term contracts, exploitation, and under-regulation, where the imperative of profit is expected to trump collective notions of military brotherhood. Why then… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/2rw1NyJ U.S. President Donald Trump's decision this week to pause military funding for Ukraine and to align his government with Russia further widens the cleavage between the United States… more ›
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As the great powers battle it out over the shape of the world order, visionary leaders of small nations are pragmatically positioning themselves as best they can for whatever comes… more ›
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The human egg is a precious resource, exchanged in markets open, gray or black. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-fertility-egg-trade/ more ›
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World Economic Forum articles may be republished in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License, and in accordance with our Terms of Use. https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/06/need-global-coordination-on-data-not-just-ai/ more ›
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‘Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world,’ Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared to the World Health Assembly on 29 November 2021, quoting Albert Camus’s The Plague.… more ›
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When I visited my home country, Sudan, back in 2011, I began to notice a massive shift. https://medium.com/@taisalih/the-new-scramble-for-africa-land-acquisitions-modern-imperialism-and-the-role-of-the-uae-d8e4505f5fd6 more ›