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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling Hindu nationalist party has been turning up the heat on some controversial and potentially highly divisive...

On a recent trip to India, I hailed a rickshaw that was pedalled, I soon noticed, by a man with a lame leg. It turns out that a few weeks earlier, the...

China’s use of trade and investment links to expand its influence in Africa is fueling growing concern in some European capitals. But, instead of...

Although we cannot say with certainty that the world economy has completely recovered from the repercussions of the global financial crisis that took place...

US Senator Ted Cruz and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker last week learned the same lesson many other Republicans have during this congressional election...

When the Paris climate agreement was concluded in December 2015, almost all the world’s countries committed to limit global warming to well below 2°...

The German Social Democrats’ (SPD) existential crisis can no longer be treated as a typical party crisis. The party captured a mere 9.7 per cent of the...

It is easy to assume that access to the digital economy is ubiquitous, and that online shopping is the natural evolution of commerce. For example, in July,...

After 95 consecutive months of job growth, the United States unemployment rate has fallen to 3.7 per cent, its lowest point since 1969. Yet wage growth...

The audio quality is poor and the sound of gunshots muffled, but the agony in Ekramul Haque’s voice is unmistakable. On May 26, while speaking with his...