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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...
Caught between police and gangs, Rio de Janeiro residents are dying in the line of fire
In Rio de Janeiro, where murder rates this year have soared to their highest levels in a decade, vio...
Otto John: new light shed on legendary Cold War double defector
Imagine if the director of the American FBI or Britain’s MI5 were to defect to a hostile state. Thin...
Jim Yong Kim starts his second term as World Bank president despite a rocky first five years
Jim Yong Kim is set to begin his second five-year term as World Bank president on July 1, having bee...
Can the world’s megacities survive the digital age?
Today, megacities have become synonymous with economic growth. In both developing and developed coun...
Healing Colombia’s war
“The armed conflict took so much from us”, one young farmer and communications activist tells us, mo...
Saudi rift with Qatar exposes growing division in the anti
This is the worst diplomatic crisis in the Gulf region in decades. On June 5, Saudi Arabia, United A...