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South Africa is very comfortable with chaos, especially on the roads

The president is hoping to win voters over for the country's mid-term elections with the same spending cuts that plunged public sector workers into poverty

From Belfast hip-hop trio Kneecap to Danish jazz band Alawari, artists took to the stage in Helsinki to condemn “Israel’s horrifying genocide”

It’s easier for Xi to make friends abroad when he has the Russian dictator by his side

Taiwan's convenience culture isn't going anywhere. When it's become a way of life, how could it?

Right now, Xi Jinping is letting Trump do all the soft power heavy lifting for him

In today's world, media doesn't need AI - it needs real journalists

Stories about a Chinese ‘artificial womb’ seem more science fiction than fact – but reveal uncomfortable truths about the ethics of reproduction

Unfortunately, this time comes with unique reminders of the inequality and suffering that is the core experience of South Africans

With 50 to 60 million dogs on the streets, India’s cities have struggled for decades to balance compassion for animals with the duty to protect human life

The march of artificial intelligence is powering rapid advances in robotics, as could be seen at the 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games

Two films about unfolding tragedy shock the Locarno Film Festival

Drug tycoon Bashir Noorzai was seized and jailed for life by the US. Yet somehow he is free - and has reinvented himself as gatekeeper to Afghanistan’s trillion-dollar rare earth treasure trove

Anti-vaccine lies mean the disease is now spreading in Britain, the US and around the world. And this is just the start

Ketamine use is spreading in Britain and the government has no plan to deal with it

He is a criminal, and has led Israel to commit criminal acts. If he does not stand trial, then international law will be shown as worthless

Putin’s influence is spreading in Slovakia. The country is now a test case for the confrontation between Russian fascism and western democracies

Ideologues don’t like science because it confronts them with truths they can’t dismiss. Donald Trump seems to think he has a workaround

Donald Trump has favoured Ukraine over Russia in recent weeks. But when he meets Putin in Alaska, all that could change

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Argentinians like what their president has done on inflation. The problem is that plenty of them hate everything else about him

Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news

Tall and glamorous, Demulder did not seem meant for war zones. And then she made them her life’s work

Education is not a luxury in emergencies; it is a lifeline but the lack of it in the Rohingya camps is a crisis of will, not resources

The vast landmass has the oil, gas, metals and water that China craves – and Moscow may be too weak to stop them

The PM is floundering at home but abroad, he may have quietly saved Britain’s global relevance

The two nations have been fighting border skirmishes since the sixties. But a new issue threatens something much worse

From petty corruption to genocide, the charges continue to mount. But the Israeli prime minister’s actions since October 7, 2023, show he is determined to escape the shadow of justice

Part online brothel, part pyramid scheme, OnlyFans management is where misogyny, modern tech and hyper-capitalism collide

When teacher Paz Errázuriz lost her job in Pinochet’s coup, she picked up a camera – and found a new way to resist

The Taiwanese are not unaware of the danger posed by China – but the air-raid drills and military exercises are now just part of everyday life

A border dispute with Thailand broke out into sudden, intense conflict. A ceasefire has been called – but that is not the end