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More than seven decades after the Fifth Pan-African Congress demanded the complete liberation of Africa from colonial domination, the continent still finds…
Jean Luc Melenchon is doing well with French voters, while his chief rival, arch-rightist Marine LePen, is not. White-bread centrist president Emmanuel…
For several weeks, the idea of the first of May as a nonworking public holiday for all workers has been contested in…
The recent local elections across France offer a revealing snapshot of the balance of forces on the Left ā and above all,…
āI call up France, Macron ā whose wife treats him extremely badly. Still recovering from the right to the jaw.ā It is…
The setting of Ćmile Zolaās 1885 novel, Germinal, is nothing if not bleak. In the northern French mining settlement where the book…
This monthās local elections in France may not turn out to be such a debacle after all. A far cry from the…
Mark Twain and Winston Churchill are both purported to have once said that a lie can travel half-way around the world before…
On a warm April 1st day last year, Budee Khekhee, head of local non-profit The Power of Unity for the Sake of…
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney sounded more like a populist leader than a former central banker during his address at the World Economic Forum…
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