Brexit saga and populism

The saga of Brexit refuses to leave the headline of news media across the globe as does the fortune of Boris Johnson whose great grandfather, he discovered on his journey to trace his ancestors, was Aly Kemal, a Turkish Muslim. Not that it is of any importance to the British...

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The costs of heightened conflict in the Himalayas

As a series of conflicts in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region come into sharp focus, sidelining local populations, the long-term environmental costs may leave the region degraded, poor and desperate.It has been a month since India cut off communications and implemented a security lockdown in the part of Kashmir it...

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Trump's N Korean appeasement

Having met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un three times - all to great fanfare - US President Donald Trump may still believe that denuclearisation is underway in the Hermit Kingdom. If so, he is the probably the only one who does, given North Korea's frequent missile tests and upgrades...

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