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Few world leaders have left office as lauded as Angela Merkel. When she stepped down as chancellor in 2021, after 16 years, ...

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The island has just 140 inhabitants. It got mains electricity only in 1992 and an undersea cable to the UK electrical grid in ...

Yet increasingly Uruguay demonstrates not just the benefits of stability, but also its limits as a development strategy.

In November 2023 Colombia imposed a tax on highly processed foods and drinks. Authorities in Brazil, Canada and Peru have ...

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But victory for the BJP and its partners in Maharashtra, with more than 80% of 288 local assembly seats, is now almost ...