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US to open border with Canada, Mexico starting in early November (Al Jazeera)

The United States will lift restrictions at its land borders with Canada and Mexico for fully vaccinated foreign nationals in early November, ending historic...

Afghanistan’s girls lament continued closure of high schools (Ali M Latifi, Al Jazeera)

Kabul resident Rahela Nussrat, 17, is in her final year of high school, but she has not been able to attend classes. The reason:...

G20 agrees aid to avert Afghanistan humanitarian crisis (Al Jazeera)

The Group of 20 (G20) has agreed to work together to avoid a humanitarian disaster in Afghanistan, even if it means having to coordinate...

Top UN court sides with Somalia in sea border dispute with Kenya (Al Jazeera)

The United Nations’ top court has awarded Somalia control of most of a potentially oil- and gas-rich chunk of the Indian Ocean after a bitter...

The IMF warns of growing threats to global economic recovery (Al Jazeera)

The International Monetary Fund did not mince words in its latest outlook for the global economy released on Tuesday, warning that the threats to...

Gaza’s undrinkable water ‘slowly poisoning’ Palestinians (Maram Humaid, Al Jazeera)

The water crisis in the Gaza Strip affects every one of the coastal enclave’s two million inhabitants. Many people in Gaza must resort to buying...

Qatar urges engagement with Taliban amid humanitarian crisis (Al Jazeera)

Qatar believes that recognising the Taliban government in Afghanistan is not a priority now, and that the focus should be on engaging with the...

Reconciling population and social expectations in Japan (Chelsea Szendi Schieder, East Asia Forum)

Japan has been declared the world’s first ‘super-aged’ society and a ‘pioneer shrinking society’, rapidly inverting the demographic pyramid upon which the modern state...

Reckoning with cyberpolicy contradictions in great power politics (Robert D. Williams, Brookings)

What should be the boundaries of government-sponsored cybertheft and surveillance beyond national borders? To what extent do apps such as TikTok pose a national-security...

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