World
Ebola epidemic and African underdevelopment
August 22, 2014These are countries of fabulous wealth, whose people live in grinding poverty, the pattern for most of sub-Saharan Africa.
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Ukraine: Cracks appear in Kiev coalition
August 20, 2014Troops of the government of President Victor Poroshenko push closer to Lubansk and Donetsk, and casualties rise in disaffected Eastern Ukraine.
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Indonesia elects working-class metalhead president
August 15, 2014Joko Widodo has become the president of Indonesia after winning 53.13 percent of the vote in the country's 2014 presidential election. He will take office Oct. 20.
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Argentina takes U.S. to World Court
August 14, 2014Argentina has taken the United States to the International Court of Justice in the Hague over a U.S. federal judge's actions in a dispute about bond payments.
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German sour pickles: Gauck, militarism, and Gaza
August 13, 2014When politicians vacation and little action is expected, the words German journalists use for this is "Saure-Gurken-Zeit" or "sour pickle time."
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