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French election: Who's vying to challenge Emmanuel Macron?

France is heading for a tight presidential race as incumbent Emmanuel Macron prepares to stake his claim for a second term. ...

US mid-terms: How will new voting laws affect the election?

President Joe Biden has suggested the US mid-term elections in November could be "illegitimate" if laws limiting voting rights are implemented. ...

Ukraine tensions: Can diplomacy prevent war?

The prospect of a wider war in Ukraine is dreadful to contemplate. If Russia were to invade, thousands could die. Many more might flee. ...

How suicide became the hidden toll of the war in Ukraine

  Back in April 2018, when the war in eastern Ukraine was a little over four years in, Father Sergey Dmitriev was standing behind the front lines near the city of Maryinka telling a joke. It was Easter Sunday - a calm day in a calm stretch of weeks along that part of the front - and the mood was good. The priest was planning to lead a service for the troops. ...

Why Uganda is investing in oil despite pressures to go green

The heat is unbearable; the haze merges the sky, lake and land; kingfishers dive and rise as if playing with the wind coming off Uganda's Lake Albert, under which vast oil reserves like. ...

EU leaders attempt to dodge Putin's divide and rule tactics

They say there's safety in numbers. ...

Ukraine conflict: Valery, young victim of a frozen war

Could it be that somehow Valery Hierovkin sensed what was coming? That the young Ukrainian foot soldier felt there was a sniper round with his name on it? ...

What's at stake for Biden in Ukraine?

The construction of the Soviet Union's embassy in 1980s Washington DC had the plot twists of a spy novel. ...

India Covid-19: The children who have never seen a classroom

In December 2019, Ceenu Jebaraj's three-year-old daughter was excited at the thought of going to school in a few months. ...

IS chief al-Qurayshi: Why getting him mattered so much to the US

The decision to deploy a Special Forces team to target Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi showed he was considered an important figure by Washington. ...

How the high cost of living is hitting Singapore's poor

In South East Asia you don't get much more of a staple food than chicken rice. Found in almost every food court and hawker centre, it is considered one of Singapore's national dishes. ...

Facebook Messenger: The battle over end-to-end encryption

The UK government and a coalition of charities are urging the British public to put pressure on Facebook not to introduce end-to-end encryption (E2EE) on its Messenger service. ...

Joe Biden: Scoring the US president's first year in office

When he took office as the 46th US president, Joe Biden declared that his ascension was the "triumph not of a candidate, but of a cause - the cause of democracy". ...

How Nigeria succeeded in clipping Twitter's wings

Twitter has agreed to a raft of conditions to end a seven-month ban in Nigeria, in what feels like a big win for President Muhammadu Buhari's administration in its efforts to regulate the internet, some analysts say. ...

Colombo Port City: A new Dubai or a Chinese enclave?

"An economic game changer" is how officials describe Colombo Port City, a shiny metropolis soaring out of the water along the Sri Lankan capital's seafront. ...

Ukraine crisis: Risks remain as Russia and West talk

Is Europe a safer place after a week of diplomacy that has criss-crossed the continent? The short answer is probably no. ...

The puzzle of America's record Covid hospital rate

Even as the Omicron variant sweeps around the world, public health officials have noted that, in most cases, the number of Covid patients in hospitals remains significantly lower than during previous pandemic surges. ...

Afcon Cameroon 2022: Playing football in the shadow of a rebellion

A group of would-be footballers sweat and shine in their kickabout in the late afternoon heat, their boots spraying up little clouds of dust as they run. ...