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Author Arundhati Roy on rise of India’s youth-led protests

India is seeing a new wave of anti-government protests inspired by the satirical Cockroach Janta Party. Award-winning Indian ...
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From liberator to dictator: Nicaragua’s Ortega says no more elections

Sunday marked 47 years since the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) toppled Nicaragua’s dictatorship. To mark the ...
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Smoky skies in Canada raise public health concerns exacerbated by climate change

As Canada continues to grapple with the spread of wildfires, The World’s Carolyn Beeler asked people on the ground how ...
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Andy Burnham takes over as Britain’s seventh prime minister in a decade

Incoming British Prime Minister Andy Burnham, who formerly served as mayor of Greater Manchester, says he wants to build a ...
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How India’s caste system persists across the globe

When the earliest form of caste was created in ancient India, it had roots in religion. In the 21st century, it lives on as a ...
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‘Mackerel Wars’ are heating up in the most profitable Atlantic fishery

The mackerel population has been in a major decline for 10 years, dropping by more than 10 million tons due to aggressive overfishing. Norway, Denmark, Iceland, the UK, the EU and Russia are fighting ...
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Cuba’s power grid buckles as people face extended blackouts

Cuba’s entire national power grid collapsed this week — for the third time in less than 10 days. The island’s aging power ...
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WWII massacre still causing tensions between Poland and Ukraine decades later

From DW, Inside Europe’s Adam Easton reports from Warsaw about tensions between Poland and Ukraine that remain 83 years later ...
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Ukraine’s defense minister dismissed amid cabinet changes

Ukrainians took to the streets of Kyiv Thursday to protest the removal of Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov by President ...
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Author Arundhati Roy on the rise of India’s youth-led ‘Cockroach Party’ protests

India is seeing a new wave of anti-government protests inspired by the satirical Cockroach Janta Party. While a leading ...
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US-Saudi nuclear energy deal raises proliferation concerns

US President Donald Trump has approved a civilian nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia that would expand cooperation on ...
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The ‘fishing link’: The role of salmon in the human migration to North America

How did humans populate what we now call the Western Hemisphere? The old theory held that humans walked across a historic land bridge from Asia to Alaska in search of big game. A more recent ...