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World Economic Forum to Open in Nigeria

World leaders, including several African heads of state and government will gather this week in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, for the World Economic Forum.

INSTEAD OF WORLD WAR III: Build a Eurasian Union from Vladivostok to Lisbon

If we are going to eliminate the threat of a civil war in Ukraine, which could escalate quickly into a regional war, and even to a thermonuclear World War III, concrete solutions must immediately be placed on the agenda. The abduction of the OSCE (...

Nearly 70 Pro-Russian Detainees Released in Odessa

Pro-Russian militants stormed a Ukrainian police station in Odessa on Sunday and freed nearly 70 fellow activists as Ukraine’s prime minister blamed police corruption there for dozens of deaths in rioting on Friday.

On World Day, UN cites press freedom as critical to reaching development goals

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A young Timorese man in Dili reads a local daily, the Suara Timor Lorosae, as World Press Freedom Day (3 May) approaches...