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China is now Africa’s largest trading partner, with partnerships focused on building roads, railways and energy projects.

Emmanuel Macron has appointed Michel Barnier as France’s prime minister, after securing Marine Le Pen’s agreement. The creation of a government reliant on her blessing is another step in the far right’s march toward power.

After my father fled Nazi Germany in 1933, he witnessed a toxic new nationalism rising among Jews in Palestine—and was silenced for trying to warn of its dangers.

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Houston seeks to be a national model for plastic recycling. But a program that started in 2022 hasn’t yet found its footing.

Yet, all along, from the very start, I believed in a mixed economy along social democratic lines, not a free market “neoliberal” economy.

The country broke diplomatic relations with Israel earlier this year. Now, it has increased the pressure by banning coal exports.

Educational inequality is a major issue, and change is necessary. But a takeover is not the answer. Too often, it is an instrument of conservative politicians wielded against local communities who find their voices shut out.

We stand with the people of Ukraine and all victims of this war, who deserve peace, reconstruction and freedom as soon as possible. Nevertheless, one thing is clear: neither peace nor reconstruction and freedom will be possible without negotiation.

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