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China’s Taiwan conundrum: Will unity-by-force be followed by new division?
Frank Ching
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Philip’s death leaves ‘huge void’ but the end was ‘peaceful ... so gentle,’ members of the Royal Family say
WINDSOR, UNITED KINGDOM - APRIL 11: Members of the public leave floral tributes to Prince Philip, Duke Of Edinburgh who died at age 99 outside of Windsor Castle on April 11, 2021 in Windsor, England. The Queen announced the death of her husband, His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who passed away peacefully on April 9th at Windsor Castle. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
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Prison sentence for pro-democracy activist signals a further crackdown in Zimbabwe
HARARE, ZIMBABWE - MARCH 16: Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa during the arrival of the shipment of Sinovac and Sinopharm vaccines from China at Harare International Airport on March 16, 2021 in Harare, Zimbabwe. Today's shipment is in addition to a batch of 200,000 doses of donated Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine received last month. Zimbabwe is one of a dozen African countries to receive donated vaccines from China. (Photo by Tafadzwa Ufumeli/Getty Images)
politics
Trudeau open to discussions after Yellen calls for global minimum corporate tax rate
(FILES) In this file photo taken on February 09, 2021 US Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen attends a meeting hosted by US President Joe Biden with business leaders about a Covid relief bill in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC. - Rich countries have an obligation to ensure the Covid-19 pandemic does not undermine efforts to fight poverty worldwide, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on April 6, 2021. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
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For young migrants, Mexico can be the end of the road
Children take part in a painting workshop at the Nohemí Álvarez Quillay facility, a migrant shelter for unaccompanied minors, run by the Mexican government in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, March 16, 2021. Thousands of children, most from Central America, are making their way to the border, many hoping to meet parents in the United States. But for those caught in Mexico, there is only near-certain deportation. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times)
canada
G7 science bodies unite on priorities for environment and health
View of snowy native forests in Pampa Guanaco in Tierra del Fuego, Chile, on March 11, 2021. - The Karukinka Natural Park is located on the Tierra del Fuego's island big, in the Magallanes region and Chilean Antarctica. This southern and remote park, four times the size of Santiago city , was donated to WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) for its conservation and is managed by the WCS program in Chile. With an integrative approach to conservation, Karukinka is a 300,000 hectare natural laboratory that seeks to conserve the natural environment, educate and generate knowledge and awareness about the relevance of Tierra del Fuego's biodiversity for the natural, social, cultural and economic development of the region. (Photo by MARTIN BERNETTI / AFP) (Photo by MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP via Getty Images)
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U.S.-backed Syrian forces raid camp of Islamic State families
An image grab from a video made available on the People's Protection Units' (YPG) Press office on March 28, 2021, shows Kurdish YPG forces lining-up men by a fence during a security operation at the Kurdish-run Al-Hol camp which holds suspected relatives of Islamic State (IS) group fighters, in the northeastern Syrian Hasakeh governorate. - Kurdish forces made dozens of arrests in a security operation launched at the camp for suspected family members of Islamic State group militants in northeast Syria, a war monitor and Kurdish officials said. Al-Hol is the largest such settlement controlled by Kurdish authorities, who warn it is emerging as an extremist powder keg following dozens of murders in the camp since the start of the year. (Photo by - / YPG Press Office / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / YPG PRESS OFFICE" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS - (Photo by -/YPG Press Office/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ethiopia confirms massacre by Eritrean soldiers
Troops in Eritrean uniforms walk in the town of Bizet, Ethiopia, March 14, 2021.Picture taken March 14, 2021.REUTERS/Baz Ratner
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Ottawa says it didn’t know of Chinese police link to Beijing visa centre
Chinese police patrol in front of the Canadian embassy in Beijing on December 14, 2018. - China confirmed on December 13 that two Canadians are under investigation on suspicion of endangering the country's national security, fuelling tensions after Canada's arrest of a top Chinese telecom executive on a US request. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP) (Photo credit should read GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images)
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Refugee camps are torched and hospitals looted as starvation looms in Ethiopia’s Tigray region
In this Tuesday Jan. 12, 2021 photo provided by the Catholic Relief Services, people affected by the conflict in Tigray load food aid provided by USAID and Catholic Relief Services onto a donkey cart to be tansported to their home, outside Mekele, Ethiopia. From “emaciated” refugees to crops burned on the brink of harvest, starvation threatens the survivors of more than two months of fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. Authorities say more than 4.5 million people, or nearly the entire population, need emergency food. The first humanitarian workers to arrive after weeks of pleading with Ethiopia for access describe weakened children dying from diarrhea after drinking from rivers, and shops that were looted or depleted weeks ago. (Catholic Relief Services via AP)
politics
Canadian action on Chinese forced labour more style than substance, critics say
(FILES) This file photo taken on June 4, 2019 shows the Chinese flag behind razor wire at a housing compound in Yangisar, south of Kashgar, in China's western Xinjiang region. - The US will seize all imports of tomato and cotton products from China's Xinjiang region due to the use of forced labor, the Customs and Border protection agency announced on January 13, 2021. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT AFP PHOTO / BADUNG POLICE - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images)
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Amid pandemic’s terrible toll, Mexico’s Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador doubles down on austerity
Ambulances carrying patients with symptoms of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are queued outside the General Hospital as paramedics are searching for available hospital beds, in Mexico City, Mexico January 7, 2021. Picture taken January 7, 2021. REUTERS/Luis Cortes
u.s. politics
U.S. to open consulate in disputed Western Sahara
(FILES) This file photo taken on December 12, 2020 shows (L to R) US and Moroccan flags next to a US State Department-authorised map of Morocco recognising the internationally-disputed territory of the Western Sahara (bearing a signature by US Ambassador to Morocco David T. Fischer) as a part of the North African kingdom, in Morocco's capital Rabat. - US President Donald Trump's surprise backing of Morocco's claim to sovereignty over disputed Western Sahara upended years of international consensus, but will this break a deadlock or inflame a conflict? (Photo by - / AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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Suspected Russian hackers used Microsoft vendors to breach customers
FILE PHOTO: The SolarWinds logo is seen outside its headquarters in Austin, Texas, U.S., December 18, 2020. REUTERS/Sergio Flores
international business
China steps up pressure on Alibaba with anti-monopoly probe
FILE PHOTO: The Alibaba Group logo is seen during the company's 11.11 Singles' Day global shopping festival at their headquarters in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, November 11, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo
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Pakistani court orders release of man charged in 2002 killing of journalist Daniel Pearl
FILE- In this March 29, 2002 file photo, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the alleged mastermind behind Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl's kidnap-slaying, appears at the court in Karachi, Pakistan. On Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020, a provincial court in Pakistan overturned a Supreme Court Decision that Sheikh should remain in custody during an appeal of his acquittal on charges he murdered Pearl. (AP Photo/Zia Mazhar, File)
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Ethiopian troops kill armed men accused of village attack
FILE PHOTO: Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed speaks during a question and answer session with lawmakers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November 30, 2020. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri/File Photo
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EU and U.K. in ‘final stages’ of post-Brexit trade talks, with hopes for a deal rising
FILE PHOTO: A British Union Jack flag flutters outside the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium January 30, 2020. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir
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Large fire breaks out at Bosnian migrant camp
Smoke rises from a fire at migrant camp Lipa, Wednesday, Dec 23, 2020, near Bihac in western Bosnia. A huge fire has broken out at a migrant camp in northwestern Bosnia which has been in the focus of rights groups because of poor conditions in the tent facility.  Thick black smoke could be seen rising Wednesday from parts of the Lipa camp near the Croatian border which currently houses some 1,200 migrants.  The cause of the fire was not immediately known as migrants were seen running away in panic. There were no reports of injuries. (AP Photo/Hasan Arnautovic)
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U.S. grants $169-million in military aid to Baltic nations for 2021
An Estonian Defence League member fires during the annual military exercise SIIL (Hedgehog) 2018 together with NATO's Enhanced Forward Presence battle group troops near Valga, Estonia May 11, 2018. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins
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South Korea rushes warplanes as Chinese, Russian aircraft enter air defence zone
In this April 20, 2017, photo, a South Korean Air Forces' KF-16 fighter takes off at an air base in Gunsan, South Korea. South Korean air force jets fired 360 rounds of warning shots after a Russian military plane briefly violated South Korea's airspace twice on Tuesday, July 23, 2019, Seoul officials said, in the first such incident between the countries. (Kim Jun-beom/Newsis via AP)
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Turkish court convicts journalist Can Dundar on terror charges
(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 06, 2020 Turkish journalist and former chief editor of the Turkish daily newspaper Cumhuriyet Can Dundar attends a meeting with German and Turkish intellectuals to comment on peace in the Mediterranean region and solidarity with democrats in Turkey, in Berlin, Germany. - A Turkish court on December 23, 2020 sentenced the exiled former editor-in-chief of the opposition Cumhuriyet daily to more than 27 years in jail on charges of aiding a terror group and espionage. The court found Can Dundar -- who fled to Germany in 2016 -- guilty in connection with a story about an alleged Turkish arms shipment to Syrian rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP) (Photo by ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty Images)
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How Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya went from school teacher to Belarus president-elect in exile
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya , Belarusian opposition figure, in Vilnius, Lithuania on December 11th/2020.
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Iranian official denies rumours of decline in supreme leader’s health
(FILES) This file handout picture provided by the office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on November 3, 2020 shows him speaking during a live televised speech marking the birth of Islam's Prophet Mohamed in the capital Tehran. - An official close to the office of Iran's supreme leader on December 7 denied rumours Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's health was deteriorating, local media reported. Rumours of Khamenei's worsening health had circulated online after claims on social media that were carried by foreign news outlets. (Photo by - / KHAMENEI.IR / AFP) / === RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / HO / KHAMENEI.IR" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS === (Photo by -/KHAMENEI.IR/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ethiopia scorns guerrilla war fears, United Nations team shot at in Tigray
Staff at the Prime Ministers office hold flags at an event to honour the national defence forces, at the Prime Ministers compound, in Addis Ababa, on November 17, 2020. - The United Nations on November 17, 2020 expressed alarm at the "large-scale humanitarian crisis" developing on the border between Sudan and Ethiopia, where thousands of people are fleeing the ongoing fighting in northern Tigray every day. (Photo by EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP) (Photo by EDUARDO SOTERAS/AFP via Getty Images)
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U.S. slaps sanctions on 14 Chinese officials over Hong Kong crackdown
Hong Kong police officers at a protest on Oct. 1, 2020.
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Egyptian court extends activist’s detention, rights group says
A mural depicting detained Egyptian human rights advocate and student at the University of Bologna in Italy Patrick George Zaki, being hugged from behind by Italian researcher Giulio Regeni, who was murdered in Cairo in 2016, is displayed on a wall near a park, in Rome on Feb. 19, 2020.
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France to sell arms to Egypt irrespective of human rights record
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and French President Emmanuel Macron attend a joint news conference at the Elysee palace, in Paris on Dec. 7, 2020.
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Iran says ‘smart satellite-controlled machine gun’ killed nuclear scientist
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani at the award ceremony and badge of merit for Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in the Islamic republic's capital Tehran on Dec. 1, 2020.
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U.S., EU say they do not recognize Venezuela parliamentary vote
CARACAS, VENEZUELA - DECEMBER 07: Members of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela raise their hands with a clenched fist in a sign of victory after midnight after the parliamentary elections where 277 parliamentarians were chosen with a participation of almost 70% abstention on December 7, 2020 in Caracas, Venezuela. The ruling party of Nicolás Maduro seeks to regain the majority in the National Assembly that it lost in 2015. Main opposition personalities agreed on not to participate in this election reporting fraud and some international bodies refused to send observers. Opposition leader Juan Guaidó and other lawmakers are calling for a week-long referendum to invalidate polls.(Photo by Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Getty Images)
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Ethiopia captures Tigrayan capital but fighting continues
A man registers Ethiopian refugees, who fled the fighting in Tigray Region, at a border reception centre (Village 8) in Gedaref State, eastern Sudan, on November 29, 2020. (Photo by ASHRAF SHAZLY / AFP) (Photo by ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP via Getty Images)
analysis
In a worsening Ethiopian war, Eritrea is the mystery player
FILE PHOTO: Eritrea's President Isaias Afwerki receives a key from Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed during the inauguration ceremony marking the reopening of the Eritrean Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia July 16, 2018. Picture taken July 16, 2018. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri/File Photo
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FDA approves antiviral medicine remdesivir to treat COVID-19
FILE PHOTO: An ampule of Gilead Sciences COVID-19 antiviral remdesivir is pictured during a news conference at the University Hospital Eppendorf (UKE) in Hamburg, Germany, April 8, 2020, as the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues. Ulrich Perrey/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
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‘Suwalki Gap’ is key to Russia’s efforts to keep Belarus in Kremlin orbit
The Polish side of the so-called 'Suwalki Gap', an 80-kilometre stretch of Polish-Lithuanian border sanwiched between Kaliningrad and Belarus is pictured on July 3, 2016 near Zerdziny, Poland. The idyllic swathe of countryside is known as the "Suwalki Gap" and its capture would amputate NATO's three Baltic members and so shatter alliance credibility. / AFP / JANEK SKARZYNSKI (Photo credit should read JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Brexit back in crisis as U.K. threatens to undercut divorce pact
FILE PHOTO: European Union and British flags flutter in front of a chancellery ahead of a visit of British Prime Minister Theresa May in Berlin, Germany, April 9, 2019. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke/File Photo