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Those lamenting the election of Tshitsekedi accept that it's probably the least bad option

Bangladesh is now a one-party state where about half the population hates the ruling party

How has this nonsense dominated the politics of two countries for more than two decades?

British Prime Minister Theresa May doesn't convince as a suicide bomber.

Putin and Poroshenko use religion for their own purposes. Bartholomew did what was right.

MbS is likely to stay in power -- perhaps to the ultimate ruin of the country he rules.

Would the Syrian Kurds rather be conquered by the Turks or by Assad?

It's looking good for the existence of life elsewhere in the universe.

92-year-old can give his country a second chance - if he removes privileges

A US-North Korea summit - this is what the deal might actually look like

US propaganda sees one stray missile turn into invasion threat

The US may be ordered to close down the Mexican border completely within 20 years.

Universal health care is a no-brainer

The Russians and Chinese will respond, and the world will become a little more dangerous.

COMMENT: Do the outside powers that have intervened in the war accept Bashar al-Assad's victory, or do they keep the war going?

COMMENT: Park Geun-hye has 15 months left of her five-year term, but she is finished politically, and that just feels sad.

COMMENT: Even before Donald Trump hijacked the Republican Party, he was loudly declaring that the science of climate change, like President Barack Obama, had not been born in the United States.

COMMENT: On average around 200 Americans are killed and wounded in mass shootings every month

COMMENT: I learned all our calculations for dealing with climate change could be swept aside by a non-linear event. This could be it.

COMMENT: The only way to seal a frontier is to kill people who try to cross it illegally. The Iron Curtain worked pretty well, for example.

COMMENT: If the US Congress had not imposed a two-term limit on the presidency in 1947, Barack Obama would be a safe bet for a third term next November.

COMMENT: The man who is taking charge of everything, President Xi Jinping, is now turning into the first one-man regime since Deng Xiaoping in the 1980s.

After an eruption of protests the skin-whitening ad was withdrawn with "heartfelt apologies" from Seoul Secret. But they didn't withdraw the product, writes Gwynne Dyer.

Islamic law forbids the enslavement of Muslims, but all that did was to encourage a roaring trade in the enslavement of non-Muslims that lasted for over a thousand years, writes Gwynne Dyer.

The Turkish leader has two goals: to ensure the destruction of Assad's regime, and to prevent the creation of a new Kurdish state in Syria, writes Gwynne Dyer.

Those military officers will continue to dominate politics, because 25 per cent of the votes, according to the 2008 constitution, can block any changes to the constitution, writes Gwynne Dyer.

After the IMF took part in the 2010 bail-out it was deeply embarrassed. It had broken its own rules, and found it hard to admit it, writes Gwynne Dyer.

What drives Putin is a grab-bag of emotional motives. His man in Kiev got overthrown, and he doesn't like to lose face, writes Gwynne Dyer.

Here are four reasons why President Barack Obama's decision last week to re-establish diplomatic relations with Cuba was a good idea.