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With its defeat in Mosul on July 10 2017, Islamic State suffered a major blow. More that three years after the group’s leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi proclaimed a cross-border caliphate stretching over vast swathes of northwestern Iraq and eastern Syria, the so-called Islamic State is losing ground and may be near destruction.
But its attempt at changing the region will leave some huge challenges behind, argues Mohammed Nuruzzaman.
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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, painted portrait.
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Mohammed Nuruzzaman, Gulf University for Science and Technology
After a major defeat in Mosul, Islamic State seems to have suffered a blow that could end its goal of establishing a cross-border caliphate in the Middle East.
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Politics + Society
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Silvia Ramos, Universidade Candido Mendes
In one bloody week in June, 181 Rio residents were shot, including a baby in utero. It's now impossible not to notice that city's once-lauded favela "pacification" strategy has all but collapsed.
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Arts + Culture
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Isabelle Chaboud, Grenoble École de Management (GEM)
Case analysis of Hermès and its four strengths: a real identity, the creativity and skills of its artisans, innovation, and the fact that it remains an independent family company.
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Health + Medicine
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Andrew Githeko, Kenya Medical Research Institute; Bob Mash, Stellenbosch University; Karen Daniels, South African Medical Research Council; Thumbi Mwangi, Washington State University
How will the World Health Organisation's Director-General Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus deal with the mounting challenges? Africa's academics have some tips.
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Science + Technology
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Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer, UNSW
The images are in from the Juno probe's closest flyby so far of Jupiter's Great Red Spot. Citizen scientists are now getting involved in processing those images.
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