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Senegal: Last country standing

Senegalese presidential candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye, who is backed by Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, casts his vote at the polling station at Ndiaganiao in Mbour, Senegal. PHOTO: REUTERS

The crisis in Senegal, the one country in West Africa that has never had a military coup, has passed.

Climate: the world is now heading for uncharted territory

Large commercial ships. PHOTO: REUTERS

It was bound to happen some time, and the time could well be now.

Three famines with one common cause

Sudanese soldiers in Omdurman, where conflict is on the verge of causing famine. PHOTO: REUTERS

There are three incipient famines in the world today, and politics is at the root of all of them.

Non-white leadership of UK has just sort of happened

First Minister of Wales Vaughan Gething in the stands as Wales play Finland at football. PHOTO: REUTERS

Nobody planned it, hardly anybody realised it was happening, and suddenly there it was: done.

Aid farce lacks more than footwear

Displaced Palestinians wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen amid shortages of food supplies, amid the conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, where thousands have sought refuge from Israel’s bombardments. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES

Good news!

Anthropocene cancelled: we’re back in the Holocene era

Image: Getty Images

There has been a decade-long year war within the geological community over what to call the epoch we live in right now, and an international panel of two dozen senior geologists has finally delivered its verdict.

Only Biden can stop the Gaza war

Can United States President Joe Biden stop the war? PHOTO: REUTERS

More than four months into the sixth Arab-Israeli War, during which about 1500 Israelis and 30,000 Palestinians have died, all the major local actors are stuck. Only the United States can stop the killing — if it chooses to do so.

Prospect of mass immigration looms

Karolina Shiino, the winner of the Miss Japan 2024 pageant, poses with her trophy at the contest in Tokyo on January 22. PHOTO: REUTERS

It did not end well for Karolina Shiino, the young woman who won the title of Miss Japan two weeks ago.

A man’s gotta do ... well, what?

US President Joe Biden is briefed on the deadly drone attack at a US outpost in Jordan on Monday. PHOTO: WHITE HOUSEN VIA REUTERS

In the immediate aftermath of the massacre of 1140 Israeli civilians by Hamas terrorists last October, US President Joe Biden went to Israel and gave Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu some good advice.

Meritless or a decisive victory?

The International Court of Justice sits. PHOTO: REUTERS

Israel's defence minister, Yoav Gallant, dismissed the ruling by the International Court of Justice in The Hague on the accusation that Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip with the words "Hague schmague".

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