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JEFFREY D. SACHS Republican-controlled state legislatures across the US are enacting new restrictions on voter participation that target non-whites. Since the Civil War, the white...

TIM HANSTAD In countries where accurate, accessible land records are not maintained, it is the marginalized and vulnerable who are the worst affected by corruption...

 Giorgi Menabde On March 6, a modernized Georgian Su-25UB Grach (NATO classification: “Frogfoot”) ground-attack/close air support (CAS) jet, successfully completed a post-repair test flight (Business-partner.ge,...

Alla Hurska Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Decree No. 201 came into effect on March 20, 2021. The executive edict adds Crimea and Sevastopol to “the...

 Pavel K. Baev The foreboding in Moscow of a new escalation of tensions with the West has given way to feelings of almost disappointing anticlimax. https://jamestown.org/program/russia-finds-itself-marginalized-between-china-and-a-reuniting-west/

Harrison Tasoff A new study is the first to map ocean areas showing that if they are strongly protected, they can help solve climate, food,...

Emmanuel Lagarrigue The global transition to renewable energy will need artificial intelligence (AI) technology to manage decentralized grids. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/03/artificial-intelligence-is-key-to-grid-resilience/

White House says Biden’s approach on North Korea will be ‘quite different’ to Trump’s. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/30/biden-not-intending-to-meet-north-koreas-kim-jong-un

Located between China and India, two of the world’s biggest polluters, the Himalayan nation is seeing the worst pollution levels since 2016. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/30/nepal-closes-schools-as-air-pollution-hits-alarming-levels