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Five years ago, tour guide Wayan Aksara noticed that more and more visitors he showed around the Indonesian island of Bali were complaining about garbage on...

Underneath a sign reading "Jesus was a refugee", a line of Venezuelan asylum seekers 30 people long stretches in front of a Catholic church in...

When the Caribbean island of Barbuda was battered by Hurricane Irma last September, about 90 per cent of homes were destroyed or damaged, and the entire...

Officials at the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) have long insisted that “China won’t weaponise the renminbi.” And yet, implicit in their promise not...

One of the central challenges facing the world’s advanced economies is slowing growth. Over the last decade, growth rates in the advanced economies have...

In many Western countries today, social and political divisions have widened to the point that attempting to bridge them seems futile. Yet one might have...

The seventeenth-century philosopher and satirist Jean de La Bruyère once quipped that, “Corneille portrays men as they should be, Racine depicts them as...

It has been less than two months since the populist Five Star Movement (M5S) and the right-wing League party formed a new Italian government, so it is too...

During the High Medieval Period, from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, serfs in France had no property rights. Instead, those with land had to hand...