Members of the youth wing of the National Front, Malaysia’s ruling coalition, hold placards during a protest at the North Korea embassy following the murder of Kim Jong-nam in Kuala Lumpur.
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Emily Crawford, University of Sydney; Ian Musgrave, University of Adelaide
Using nerve agents is banned under the Chemical Weapons Convention, but North Korea is not a party to it.
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Arts + Culture
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Pegah Shahbaz, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3 – USPC; Anders Marklund, Lund University; Kim Toft Hansen, Aalborg University; Lothar Mikos, Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf; Marc Tabani, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
The best of global cinema from Germany to Iran and Vanuatu.
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Science + Technology
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Elizabeth Tasker, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
Scientists have discovered seven Earth-sized planets packed around a dim star.
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Politics + Society
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Luigi Narbone, European University Institute
Russia has managed to regain, at least in part, its role as a powerful interlocutor in the Middle East, which it lost after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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Yu-Shan Wu, University of the Witwatersrand
The African Union is changing the way it does business. Its new reforms, led by Rwandan President, Paul Kagame, call for fewer strategic priorities and addressing bureaucratic bottlenecks.
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Martin J. Bull, University of Salford
The former PM has resigned as leader of his party in the hope of returning to the top job. But it hasn't quite gone to plan.
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Health + Medicine
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Thomas Stubbs, University of Cambridge; Alexander E. Kentikelenis, University of Oxford
West African health systems were weak before the IMF got involved. Sadly, the policy reforms demanded by the IMF in exchange for loans have undermined governments' ability to repair these problems.
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