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Can the world end poverty by 2030, the target set by the United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development? The UN General Assembly recently reaffirmed this...

As if coping with constant food and medicine shortages were not enough for crisis-weary Venezuelans, many live in constant fear in a country where three...

Africa is on the verge of an unemployment crisis portending profound economic, political, and social ramifications. But the crisis can be averted, and one...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has launched an all-out political assault on the Reserve Bank of India, and the barrage of criticism is...

A Hazara refugee who now calls the Australian outback home, Ali named his new venture the "Afghan Friendship Restaurant", a tribute to the warm...

Zimbabwean businessman Munya Chihota's face lights up when he recalls taking part in a march last year with tens of thousands of people calling for...

Suppose two people hold different opinions about a policy issue. Is it possible to say that one is right and the other wrong, or do they just have different...

It is now common knowledge that many democracies around the world are under pressure. But mounting threats to a particularly important democratic right have...

On his week-long tour of Asia, US Vice President Mike Pence had been promoting a vision of a “free and open” Indo-Pacific region, characterized by...

With Jair Bolsonaro president-elect, and his three sons in elected office -- Flavio in the Senate, Eduardo in the Congress and Carlos on Rio de...