Outspoken Chechen blogger found murdered in Lille
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Outspoken Chechen blogger found murdered in Lille

 An outspoken blogger from Chechnya who had criticised the country’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov has been found brutally murdered in France,…
Brexit, the most pointless, masochistic ambition in our country’s history, is done
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Brexit, the most pointless, masochistic ambition in our country’s history, is done

 The only certainty is that we’ll be asking ourselves questions for a very long time. Set aside for a moment…
Cinema of Hidden Histories: Leontina Vatamanu’s Siberia in the Bones (2019)
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Cinema of Hidden Histories: Leontina Vatamanu’s Siberia in the Bones (2019)

 Her topic is a bleak one. In 1940, Josef Stalin, one of history’s most twisted paranoiacs, began forcibly expelling thousands…
Pompeo in Belarus to push better ties, counter Russia, China
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Pompeo in Belarus to push better ties, counter Russia, China

 Pompeo is the first secretary of state to visit Belarus in more than two decades and arrived on Saturday amid…
Moldova faces ‘existential’ population crisis
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Moldova faces ‘existential’ population crisis

With the worst demographic decline in Europe, Moldova is struggling to remain a ‘viable state’, says its foreign minister. Such…
Moldova warned to stop calling Romanian Moldovan
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Moldova warned to stop calling Romanian Moldovan

In a statement Friday, the Romanian Academy, a government-backed cultural institute, said that the language referred to in Moldova as…
How China’s Coronavirus Is Spreading—and How to Stop It
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How China’s Coronavirus Is Spreading—and How to Stop It

 Controlling the spread of the virus requires both public health and medical measures—and for that we need a clear clinical…
Soros gives $1bn to fund universities ‘and stop drift towards authoritarianism’
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Soros gives $1bn to fund universities ‘and stop drift towards authoritarianism’

 The philanthropist and former financier George Soros has announced that he is to donate $1bn to fund a new global…
Putin’s latest obsession: Rewriting World War II
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Putin’s latest obsession: Rewriting World War II

 Putin has appeared lately to be obsessed with World War II, discoursing about it at every opportunity — during an…
Chinese pneumonia outbreak (2019-nCoV): An emerging threat to global public health?
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Chinese pneumonia outbreak (2019-nCoV): An emerging threat to global public health?

 After decade of neglect, infectious diseases (IDs) have re-emerged as a field of inquiry in the area of global public…