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In Vietnam poverty and poor development, not just floods, kill the most marginalised
Flooding and landslides in northwest Vietnam have caused widespread devastation since the start of A...
Venezuela: Why Trump’s sanctions won’t work
The White House recently announced new financial sanctions on Venezuela in a rebuke to the country’s...
What game theory says about dealing with North Korea
North Korea fired its third missile in three weeks on May 29, once again drawing protests from South...
Cities rally around the Paris deal, a reminder that global problems can have local solutions
When President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris agreement, the landmark climat...
Syrian refugees in Turkey: time to dispel some myths
Six years after the war in Syria started, Turkey hosts the largest number of refugees, who try to ca...
Is life in Norway as happy as it’s cracked up to be?
For progressives around the world, it has become almost a pastime to romanticise the quasi-socialist...
From Chinese missile shelters to US warships, the South China Sea conflict is heating up
This article, originally published on June 14 2017 with the headline “Dispute over warship in the So...
In space, this is the age of reusability
Big plans are being made in space. Investment banks want to mine asteroids for rare, valuable metals...
Why we love (and fear) mummies
Somewhere in Iraq, the tomb raider Nick Morton (a never-ageing Tom Cruise) flies over the desert. Th...