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On the face of it, it looks like Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has made another step towards concentrating his increasingly autocratic power. But as Alpaslan Ozerdem explains, the snap elections that gave him a boost on Sunday also denied his party a parliamentary majority, put an obstacle in the way of the Kurdish peace process, and elevated a leading opposition figure at a time when Turkey needs one more than ever.
A grenade explosion apparently targeting Ethiopia’s new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed killed two and injured over 100 people. The attack set off a storm of speculation around the country’s political transition. Girma Mohammed asks whether a wildly popular prime minister committed to reforming the country’s institutions is beginning to face resistance from within his own party.
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Alpaslan Ozerdem, Coventry University
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has headed off a political humiliation, but making good on his extravagant promises won't be easy.
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Mohammed Girma, University of Pretoria
The grenade attack shows that opponents are threatened by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's progress.
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Gbenga Oduntan, University of Kent
Trunp's new policy could lead to the militarisation of outer space and the beginning of a new space arms race.
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Environment + Energy
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Paolo Omar Cerutti, Centre for International Forestry Research; Davison Gumbo, Centre for International Forestry Research
Zambia's rosewood forests are being decimated but it's still not reaping the full benefits of exporting the coveted wood to China.
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Richard Aster, Colorado State University; Valentina Roberta Barletta, Technical University of Denmark
Scientists have found that the bedrock underneath the West Antarctica Ice Sheet has the potential to rebound in response to melting faster than thought, which could act to stabilize the ice.
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