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RAMZY BAROUD sees Gaza abandoned while the genocide continues
The future of peace in the balance
Colombians face a stark choice in next week’s presidential election, writes JOHN HAYLETT
ANDREW MURRAY offers some troubling thoughts on pressing political issues
Tensions have once again escalated between Egypt and Ethiopia over GERD, Africa’s largest hydroelectric project, and now Trump has offered to mediate. NICHOLAS MWANGI reports
The National Education Union general secretary speaks to Ben Chacko on growing calls to protect children from a toxic online culture
While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE
Unison Scotland’s BRENDA AITCHISON says her union won’t tolerate further cuts to public services
Colombia’s voters will return to the polls next weekend in an exercise that could scupper the government’s peace negotiations with the Farc liberation movement.
Incumbent President Juan Manuel Santos, who is intent on pursuing the talks that began in November 2012, will meet Oscar Ivan Zuluaga in a run-off after neither candidate reached 50 per cent in the first round.
Zuluaga led the way on May 29, gaining 29.25 per cent against 25.69 per cent for Santos. Conservative Marta Lucia Ramirez polled 15.52 per cent, marginally beating Alternative Democratic Pole (PDA) candidate Clara Lopez’s 15.23 per cent, while Green representative Enrique Penalosa scored 8.28 per cent.
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