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Some familiar words we use in everyday English carry surprising traces of Malay, a language spoken widely across south-east Asia

The American-Asian artist’s brutal killing ended a life of huge promise – but her voice could not be silenced

Brazil’s Inhotim Institute, a vast open-air museum, is part botanical garden, part moral maze

Maduro may be in a US prison, but a mob of intelligence officers and paramilitaries are setting up roadblocks and dragging victims off the streets to make sure people understand – his political project still holds power

Mysteries, misdiagnoses and miracles marked the extraordinary life of New Zealand’s greatest writer. Yet she remains oddly undercelebrated in her own land

The nation has changed out of all recognition since the Shah was deposed in 1979. There is now only one way that the country can enter the modern world – the state must crack

In 1968, a US bomber carrying nuclear weapons crashed in Greenland. That time the bombs didn’t detonate and there was no catastrophe. But the nation now faces a new US threat and the outcome could be much worse

The president of Moldova saw off a vicious campaign from Russia by educating the public about the threat and mobilising them against it. Would we do the same here?

It is the second most-spoken first language in the world, and opens doors across continents and careers – yet British schools still insist on teaching French

The veteran artist’s World on Fire Timeline maps a century of crisis and resistance

The great crime writer, who died 50 years ago, may have looked in later life like Miss Marple – but in her youth she was an intrepid world traveller with a passion for surfing

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Living so close to a huge unfriendly neighbour has made our politics intense – but it has also done the same for our music culture

Elephants have been trampling and eating crops planted by Kenyan farmers, and gamekeepers have been looking for a solution. Then someone noticed that elephants don’t like bees

The challenge for my country is to get rid of the networks of patronage and power that are all controlled by the old. We need to become a country of the young

The booty went down in a shipwreck over 300 years ago. Now comes the tricky question of ownership

Trump’s raid on Caracas gives the US control of Venezuelan oil, and shows that America is now a nation that acts without restraint. The lessons for Britain, and Europe, could not be any clearer

Maduro was a foul dictator. But what happens next could be as bad - or worse

Crime, corruption and cruelty show how leaders like Trump and Bukele exploit power, and why they must be stopped

To survive the club culture of Buenos Aires, you need stamina and a willingness to let go of British ideas about bedtime

She may be a global superstar, but in her homecoming to Cali, it was Grupo Niche and the city’s centuries-old salsa culture that stole the show

Armed only with pistols and faced with an overwhelming number of Hamas attackers, Remo El-Hozayel rescued hundreds from the Nova Festival massacre

While Britain struggles to open new factories, Beijing is looking to a future of flying cars. How can Europe emulate what its rival intends, and do it better?

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2025 has been a wild ride, and in these ten articles, writers here at The New World confronted some of the most important questions of the year

The dictator’s threats and dirty tricks go unanswered and unpunished. We can’t keep rolling over like this

In the months leading up to the holy festival in Bangladesh, bombs have been going off at Christian sites, and nobody knows why

As America retreats from the world into its own sphere of influence, the resulting vacuum will bring more confrontation, uncertainty and disorder. And in almost all cases, Trump won’t care

Decisions made in Beijing have caused immense suffering for the Chinese people. It’s time to understand the mistakes of the past, or risk falling into ignorance

Western leaders and diplomats have spent huge amounts of political capital on Gaza and Ukraine – but not on Sudan. Even now, the slaughter goes on, but where is the response?

Most politicians remain oblivious to the threat, especially on the left. But they must realise Putin could do to us what he’s done to Ukraine, without firing a shot

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