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By Caroline Kende-Robb - Mar 26, 2018 - Last updated at Mar 26, 2018 23:00
GENEVA — We are still near the start of 2018, and already it feels like tension and disorder will be the year’s defining characteristics. ...
By Abdul Ghafur - Mar 25, 2018 - Last updated at Mar 25, 2018 23:48
CHENNAI — Last year, a 30-year-old teacher suffering from a severe bloodstream infection arrived in my emergency room for treatment. ...
By Stefanie Stantcheva - Mar 22, 2018 - Last updated at Mar 22, 2018 23:16
To many observers, US Republicans’ recent passage of a sweeping tax bill was out of step with the country’s needs. ...
By Danny A. Milner, Jr. - Mar 20, 2018 - Last updated at Mar 20, 2018 22:50
CHICAGO — One of the most pressing public-health challenges in Africa today is also one of the least reported: cancer, a leading cause of de ...
By Mahmoud Berkhdan - Mar 18, 2018 - Last updated at Mar 18, 2018 23:20
AFRIN, SYRIA — On January 20, Turkey began targeting northern Syria with air strikes and heavy shelling in a campaign that it claims is desi ...
By Denise Y. Ho - Mar 18, 2018 - Last updated at Mar 18, 2018 23:19
BEIJING — Now that China’s National People’s Congress has voted — 2,958 to two — to abolish presidential term limits, Xi Jinping could rule ...
By Brian Levy - Mar 18, 2018 - Last updated at Mar 18, 2018 23:18
CAPE TOWN — A month has passed since Cyril Ramaphosa, the head of the African National Congress (ANC), replaced Jacob Zuma as South Africa’s ...
By Leah Samberg - Mar 17, 2018 - Last updated at Mar 17, 2018 23:23
MINNEAPOLIS — In 2015, when the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals were officially adopted, the clock began ticking on an ambitiou ...
By Dirk Helbing - Mar 17, 2018 - Last updated at Mar 17, 2018 23:22
ZURICH — The world is being battered by technological disruption, as innovations such as big data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), r ...
By Nabil Fahmy - Mar 15, 2018 - Last updated at Mar 15, 2018 22:28
CAIRO — When the United Nations was founded, its primary goals, as stated in its Charter’s preamble, included saving future generations from ...

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