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MONROVIA: The presidential candidate of the Liberian People’s Party (LPP), Tiawan Saye Gongloe, has said politics is not about “enmity” or for…

SHANGHAI: After Chinese GDP grew by only 3% in 2022, one would have expected the government to set a growth target of…

MANILA: We live in a world assailed by crisis, with war, disease, and economic hardship taking a terrible toll on human welfare…

NEW DELHI: The Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana famously warned that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” But…

WASHINGTON, DC: The Republican Party substantially underperformed in this year’s US midterm elections, with the candidates most closely associated with former President…

NEW YORK: Around the world, 2022 has been a year of climate catastrophes, including droughts, floods, mega-fires, typhoons, and more. Among the…

LJUBLJANA: I once asked my younger son if he could pass the salt, only to be met with the response, “Of course…

EIJING: On July 2, 1997, the Thai baht collapsed. After waves of speculative attacks, the government had run out of foreign currency…

CAMBRIDGE: In 2017, just when the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus closed after almost 150 years, the political extravaganza of…

BERKELEY: During its last term, the US Supreme Court’s conservative majority openly acted against the American people’s interests and preferences on abortion…