The defeat of political movements rarely follows the decisive ending imagined in literature. Even when an authoritarian leader loses power or an electoral movement suffers a major setback, the political ideas sustaining
Mandarin is becoming an increasingly popular subject among the children of world leaders, billionaires and royal families, reflecting growing interest in China’s economic and diplomatic importance and the opportunities associated with its
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The competition received a good response from college students across India. Considering the number of participants and the quality of the essays submitted, ten students have been selected for prizes, while another
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Donald Trump Jr travelled to a remote region of western Mongolia in August for a hunting trip that included two days with Umar Kremlev, a Russian businessman who helped pay for his
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India’s debates over caste have increasingly focused on the caste census and the sub-classification of quotas, but Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd’s autobiography, A Shudra Life, directs attention to a less examined dimension of
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Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition has lost its parliamentary majority in Israel’s election, but neither the prime minister’s right-wing bloc nor the opposition led by former military chief Gadi Eisenkot appears likely to
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A shirtless, masked young man standing above a São Paulo metro station, waving Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s flag alongside a Palestinian flag, became one of the defining images of
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Farmers across Romania and Hungary are struggling to grow maize as prolonged drought and extreme temperatures undermine harvests, forcing agricultural businesses to seek heat-resistant seeds, invest in irrigation or switch to crops
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Why are we so obsessed with a group of prehistoric humans who disappeared some 40,000 years ago? Ever since the discovery of the first named Neanderthal fossils in 1856, scientists have struggled
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Every morning, Marie Noll receives a message from a bot asking whether she is working from home or in the office. If she selects “office” while remaining at home, an error message
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made an unannounced visit to the Chinese border city of Dandong over the weekend, marking a significant anniversary in relations between the two countries as Beijing
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Sri Lanka’s luxury property market is attracting renewed investor interest, with Chinese-backed developments among the projects benefiting from rising demand in Colombo. Yet analysts warn that the recent surge in prices and
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When Ayumi’s two daughters left home, the 62-year-old resident of Kawasaki began to see her marriage differently. After more than two decades together, she and her husband had little left in common,
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More than 177 protests and demonstrations have taken place across 12 European countries in just over a month, as students, trade unions and other groups mobilise over housing costs, education, inflation and
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A vulnerability in PHP, a programming language widely used to build websites, has triggered a race between attackers exploiting the flaw and website operators attempting to secure their systems. Thomas Caspers, vice-president
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Benjamin Netanyahu enters Israel’s parliamentary election on 27 October facing the prospect of losing power, but his political survival may depend less on his record in office than on the profound shift
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