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The Aral Sea’s story demonstrates how human actions can profoundly alter natural systems, yet it also shows that determined cooperation can begin to repair environmental damage that once seemed irreversible.

Contrasting approaches to language and identity highlight a widening divide in how each side conceptualizes nationhood – part of the political and societal gap across the Taiwan Strait.

Ernüchtert blicken wir auf die 14. Ministerkonferenz der Welthandelsorganisation, die in Yaoundé, der Hauptstadt Kameruns, ohne Beschlüsse zu Ende ging. Nun sind pragmatische Lösungen und die Suche nach verlässlichen Allianzen für die Reform des multilateralen Handelssystems gefragt.

Ehegattensplitting, Steuern, Rente: Die große Sozialreform nimmt endlich Gestalt an. Jetzt ist wichtig: Sie darf nicht zulasten der Schwächsten gehen., Langsam kommt Bewegung in die überfälligen Reformbemühungen der Bundesregierung. Bundeskanzler und Finanzminister haben nach dem Ausbleiben des "Herbstes der Reformen" nun erneut große Vorhaben angekündigt. Nach den Änderungen beim Bürgergeld stehen Einkommensteuer, Mehrwertsteuer, ...

The international human rights system depends on the work of local defenders, but offers them little protection once they become politically inconvenient.

What makes BRICS silence on the war in West Asia particularly deplorable is that two fellow BRICS members -- Iran and the UAE -- are directly caught in the war.

Vietnamese fishers, especially those who have faced physical violence from Chinese forces, suffer in silence. 

African states have considerable agency to shape their own digital governance and are not simply accepting models imposed on them by China or other external actors.

The gap is narrow, but it leaves families with little room to absorb new shocks, including those now emerging from the war in Iran.

Despite the positive optics of punching above its weight in diplomacy, Pakistan has become weaker over time.

When victimized students were asked where they turned for help, 44.5 percent said they searched the internet, while only 2.9 percent went to a friend and fewer than 3 percent contacted the police.

With energy security back in the spotlight, the Lai administration has scrapped a longstanding plank of the DPP platform: opposing nuclear power.

China’s rare earth advantage does not equal strategic supremacy. 

The Internal Market and Consumer Protection committee delegation was in Beijing and Shanghai from 31 March to 2 April.
Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

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