High-rise buildings amid shacks in Luanda. President Dos Santo has announced plans to retire amid growing unease among Angolans over deepening poverty despite a recent oil boom. Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko
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The world is currently transfixed by the spectacle of American elections.
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Several key reports to be launched during the ADW and the Conference of Ministers, taking place between the 31st March and 5th April at the UN Conference Centre
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The terrible scenes in Brussels following a terrorist attack now claimed by Islamic State are a reminder of just how vulnerable airports can be.
In the years since the September 11 attacks in the US in 2001, a...
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President Barack Obama is in Cuba! On a mission. Liberate Cubans from “communist” mental slavery!
Hooray! Cuba libre! Free Cuba!
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• Says the “entanglement of the Clinton Foundation with so many corporations and so...
Former Mexican president, Vicente Fox, speaks with Al Jazeera English's Mehdi Hasan and escalates his attacks on Donald Trump:
States that Donald Trump is “absolutely” a racist and that his “discriminatory speech is creating violence within the same United...
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