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Do you want a future in which Canada defects to the EU, Russia rules the Arctic and China runs Latin America? That’s the default outcome of non-action.

In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...

Advancements in genetic research have shed new light on the complex migrations and interactions that shaped Europe's history ...

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Some of the fires ravaging Los Angeles remain uncontrolled and more than 100,000 people have been ordered to evacuate.