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She never had any real chance of winning the Russian presidency and in the end only managed to obtain 1.53%…

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Khaira Arby: Fighting Jihadists with Music

In Mali, she is the grande dame of the country’s exceptionally rich music scene: Khaira Arby - aka The Nightingale…

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Joshua Wong: Teenager vs. Superpower

The sharp end of the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, student activist Joshua Wong is getting up close and personal…

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Yassine Belattar: Clown of the Republic

The Paris king of comedy likes to make people wince - either in agony or in shock. His jokes and…

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US Trade Policy: End of the Liberal World Order

The established wisdom, first formulated and then imposed by the United States, says that trade encourages nations to maintain peace.…

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Jerome Powell, Chair of the Federal Reserve: The End of Easy Money

It had to happen and it just did. The untold joys of expansive monetary policy as the engine of growth…

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Ursula von der Leyen: Close Cooperation

The first woman to preside over Germany’s Ministry of Defence, Ursula von der Leyen was appointed by Chancellor Angela Merkel…

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EY: Argentina – Aspects of the Labour & Social Security Reform

A labour and social security reform bill has been recently sent to the Argentine Congress. In general, proposed amendments represent…

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UNCDF: Bringing New Parties to the Table – Engaging the Private Sector to Drive Investment into Least Developed Countries

It is widely understood that the world is falling far short of the funding flows required to achieve the Sustainable…

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Jean-Claude Juncker: Gives as Good as He Gets

He is the man eurosceptics, and quite a few others, love to hate – the embodiment of all that is…

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