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What’s the story and what is at stake? Latin America’s second largest economy will go to the polls on Sunday to choose its next president and a new congress at a time of widespread disillusionment at...

Sara Khatun is deeply cynical about marriage. One of many Rohingya women trying to cope alone in the refugee camps of Bangladesh, she was left by her husband and has five children to look after. Sitting in...

Two women accused of murdering the estranged half-brother of Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, must have been trained to carry out an assassination using a deadly nerve agent, Malaysian prosecutors have said. Indonesian Siti Aisyah and...

Angela Merkel has said the future of the European Union hinges on whether it can find answers to the “vital questions” posed by migration. Addressing the Bundestag before heading to Brussels for a European summitthat is likely to determine...

Officials in Brussels have reminded the government in Chisinau of the need to respect democratic principles after courts in the country annulled the capital’s mayoral election. The EU’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and Enlargement Commissioner...

Macedonia and Albania have welcomed European ministers’ agreement on a conditional start date of next summer for their long-awaited EU accession talks. Macedonian and Albanian leaders on Wednesday welcomed the decision by European ministers to give...

Ukraine’s General Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation into 54 suspected members of a pro-Russian foreign legion – including several Serbs – who took part in attacks on Ukraine’s forces in the east of the country...

Darren McGarvey, who this week won the Orwell book prize for Poverty Safari, his memoir of growing up in a tough part of Glasgow with an alcoholic, drug-abusing mother, is a little embarrassed by the chair...

For 500 years, the painted wooden effigy of St George that adorns a chapel in the Spanish town of Estella has been locked in a silent struggle against his old foe, the dragon. Today, however, the...

And so, when it came to it, when it seemed that all was lost, Argentina’s hero appeared. His name, this time, was Marcos Rojo. With the Albiceleste on the verge of elimination, the scene before them horribly familiar,...