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U.S. and British vessels sail in formation during a large-scale global exercise in the Philippine Sea in August 2021. A new security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom and the U.S. will ensure such activities continue. (Photo: US DEFENSE PHOTO)

The AUKUS alliance’s pros

To the surprise of many, on Sept. 15, 2021, a new Australia, United Kingdom and United States (AUKUS) security partnership was announced by Australian Prime

According to The Economist, Chinese President Xi Jinping has launched an antitrust campaign on China’s tech firms, demanding they focus on “deep tech” that offers “geostrategic advantage, not frivolities [such as] games and shopping.” Shown here is Alibaba's headquarters in Hangzhou. (Photo: Daniel inblue))

Where business is heading

Wherever they exist, trends are about human behaviour, which is predictable. Charles Tatum, psychology expert at California’s National University, says predictability leaves us open to

In 2022, climatic alterations will continue to descend mercilessly on Africa. Rain will fall erratically on farmers, such as this Kenyan woman, who cannot grow crops and earn their livelihoods without the traditionally regular monsoons from the east and the warming of air and downpours that follow the movement of inter-tropical convergence patterns from the west across the middle of the vast continent. (Photo: Neil Palmer (CIAT))

Africa’s coming rough years

The years 2020 and 2021 were tough and worrying years for Africa and Africans. Will 2022 prove better and more life sustaining? The COVID-19 pandemic

The military base at Perevalne is shown here during the occupation of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol by Russian troops in 2014. (Anton Holoborodko)

Russia prepares for war with Ukraine

Ukraine has strayed too far into NATO’s corner, as it did in 2014, and that is something Moscow will not tolerate, even if it means

Reading Liberia books developed by CODE in partnership with local authors and illustrators feature prominently in the Girls’ Accelerated Learning Initiative, which aims to help over-age girls master literacy and numeracy skills. Without this program, girls such as Annie and Sarah, above from left, who are too old for their grade, are at high risk of never completing primary school as they contend with many social and economic barriers. (Photo: CODE/ Jefferson Krua, 2020)

A second chance at school

Grace hunches over her desk to write. Watching her, it seems she’s trying to hide her size and blend into the sea of much younger

Shown here is study period at Roman Catholic Indian Residential School, Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories. The latest residential school scandal made headlines across the globe, and China weaponized it in its dealings with Canada. (Photo: Library and archives Canada)

The residential schools tragedy

In May, Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc leaders announced that the loss of children from B.C.’s Kamloops Indian Residential School had been confirmed by ground-penetrating radar. In

Wanted: A major reset

Our writer, a former Canadian ambassador to China, says its time to re-examine and restart Canada’s relationship with its second-largest trading partner Both Prime Minister

Hope and hopelessness in Africa

Hakainde Hichilema’s resounding victory in Zambia’s August presidential poll proves that Africans can abandon identity preferences, resist intimidation by an incumbent regime and oust a

Afghanistan’s grim future

“The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgement that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish the kind of war