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The view from the ground.
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A doctor examines Wek Wol Wek (3 years), who suffers acute malnutrition, at the clinic run by Doctors without Borders (MSF) in Aweil, Northern Bahr al Ghazal, South Sudan, on October 11, 2016. Every week, the MSF clinic attends 60 new cases of malnourishment and it registered the highest activity in August 2016 with 90. Since March 2016, more than 70,000 people from Northen Bahr al Ghazal migrated to the neighbouring country Sudan due to the lack of food and the inflation in the market. According to the Food Security Outlook Update released by Famine Early Warning System Network (Fews Net) in September 2016, in Northern Bahr el Ghazal, some households are in Catastrophe phase level (IPC Phase 5), as they suffer from extreme lack of food, with households facing significant food consumption gaps, high levels of malnutrition and mortality. / AFP / ALBERT GONZALEZ FARRAN (Photo credit should read ALBERT GONZALEZ FARRAN/AFP/Getty Images) South Sudan’s Man-Made Famine
The country's warring leaders have left their citizens with two options – flee or starve.
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The White House is pictured on January 19, 2013 in Washington DC. Americans kicked off Barack Obama's inauguration weekend Saturday with a day of service, with the president and his family volunteering their efforts in Washington. AFP PHOTO/Jewel Samad (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images) The Road to Power in Ukraine Runs Through Donald Trump
When Kiev can’t reliably get hold of the White House, even Miss Universe contestants will start conducting diplomacy.
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gettyimages-144021237crop The Only Thing That Can Beat Merkel Is Anti-Merkel
The sudden surge of the folksy Martin Schulz has produced more excitement than German politics has seen in years.
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Face masks depicting Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and US President-elect Donald Trump are displayed for sale at a kiosk in an underground passage in Saint Petersburg on January 20, 2017. Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States Friday -- capping his improbable journey to the White House and beginning a four-year term that promises to shake up Washington and the world. / AFP / Olga MALTSEVA (Photo credit should read OLGA MALTSEVA/AFP/Getty Images) Russians Are Turning on Donald Trump
One month in, the new White House is looking chaotic and weak -- the opposite of what Russia respects in a politician.
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![CORRECTION - Indonesian police stand guard as Muslim protesters hold a rally in support of the country's clerics at the National Monument in Jakarta on February 5, 2017.
Hundreds of protesters from the radical Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) held a peaceful protest to support Indonesian clerics, including Rizieq Shihab, leader of the FPI (Front Pembela Islam) or Islamic Defending Front, which recently helped organise mass rallies against Jakarta governor and ethnic Chinese Christian Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, who is on trial for allegedly insulting Islam. / AFP / ADEK BERRY / The erroneous mention[s] appearing in the metadata of this photo by ADEK BERRY has been modified in AFP systems in the following manner: [clarifying first sentence to "supporting clerics", and correcting the second sentence]. Please immediately remove the erroneous mention[s] from all your online services and delete it (them) from your servers. If you have been authorized by AFP to distribute it (them) to third parties, please ensure that the same actions are carried out by them. Failure to promptly comply with these instructions will entail liability on your part for any continued or post notification usage. Therefore we thank you very much for all your attention and prompt action. We are sorry for the inconvenience this notification may cause and remain at your disposal for any further information you may require. (Photo credit should read ADEK BERRY/AFP/Getty Images)](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/gettyimages-633865094.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
CORRECTION - Indonesian police stand guard as Muslim protesters hold a rally in support of the country's clerics at the National Monument in Jakarta on February 5, 2017. Hundreds of protesters from the radical Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) held a peaceful protest to support Indonesian clerics, including Rizieq Shihab, leader of the FPI (Front Pembela Islam) or Islamic Defending Front, which recently helped organise mass rallies against Jakarta governor and ethnic Chinese Christian Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, who is on trial for allegedly insulting Islam. / AFP / ADEK BERRY / The erroneous mention[s] appearing in the metadata of this photo by ADEK BERRY has been modified in AFP systems in the following manner: [clarifying first sentence to "supporting clerics", and correcting the second sentence]. Please immediately remove the erroneous mention[s] from all your online services and delete it (them) from your servers. If you have been authorized by AFP to distribute it (them) to third parties, please ensure that the same actions are carried out by them. Failure to promptly comply with these instructions will entail liability on your part for any continued or post notification usage. Therefore we thank you very much for all your attention and prompt action. We are sorry for the inconvenience this notification may cause and remain at your disposal for any further information you may require. (Photo credit should read ADEK BERRY/AFP/Getty Images) Indonesia’s Moderate Islam is Slowly Crumbling
Liberal Muslims are fretting as fundamentalists seize the popular moment.
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netanyahu The Scandals that Could Topple Netanyahu
A new friend in the White House and no real opposition at home should make Bibi very happy. But three brewing investigations could lead him in search of new enemies.
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The leader of the French far-right National Front (FN) party Marine Le Pen visits on March 20, 2015 a farm in the northwestern French town of Juilley ahead of the ahead of the March 22 and 29 departemental local elections. AFP PHOTO/CHARLY TRIBALLEAU. (Photo credit should read CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP/Getty Images) How Leftists Learned to Love Le Pen
The far-right National Front’s path to victory runs through France’s former northern Communist strongholds.
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gettyimages-512616946 Russia’s Last Opposition Hero
Vladimir Putin’s most vocal critic has survived crackdowns and intimidation. But Alexei Navalny’s latest gambit against the Kremlin may be his last.
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gettyimages-591966172 Kiev Is Fueling the War in Eastern Ukraine, Too
A muted White House isn't just emboldening the Kremlin -- it's inciting the politics of war throughout Ukraine.
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iraqkenner The Women Who Could Save Mosul
A group of female parliamentarians have developed a plan to mend the post-ISIS fabric of Iraq's second-largest city.
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Indonesia's President Joko Widodo (L) and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak (R) talk to each other prior to their meeting at the prime minister's office in Putrajaya, outside Kuala Lumpur on February 6, 2015. Widodo arrived in Malaysia on February 5 for his first bilateral trip abroad, with the two sides hoping to shore up an important Southeast Asian relationship frequently strained by diplomatic spats. AFP PHOTO / MOHD RASFAN (Photo credit should read MOHD RASFAN/AFP/Getty Images) The World’s Biggest Muslim Nation Is Telling Its Citizens to Shut Up About Trump
Indonesians and Malaysians are afraid they could be next in the U.S. president’s crosshairs.
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A man walks past a mural, vandalized with paint, depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and US President Donald Trump and bearing the Cyrillic letters reading "Kosovo is Serbia", in Belgrade on January 25, 2017. / AFP / ANDREJ ISAKOVIC / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION (Photo credit should read ANDREJ ISAKOVIC/AFP/Getty Images) Donald Trump’s Big League Balkans Problem
The first victim of Trump-induced instability might not be Ukraine, or the Baltics – but tiny Kosovo.
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Steam rises off the freezing water as a Chinese man rows his boat along the Yalu River between China and North Korea some 70 kms north of the North Korean border town of Siniuju which lies across the river from Dandong in northeast China's Liaoning province on November 26, 2010. AFP PHOTO / Frederic J. BROWN (Photo credit should read FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images) Russia Wants North Korea’s Money, Not Its Refugees
North Koreans once found tentative refuge in Russia, but new laws will send them back to torture and death.
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HANGZHOU, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 04: Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) shakes hands with Argentina's president Mauricio Macri to the G20 Summit at the Hangzhou International Expo Center on September 4, 2016 in Hangzhou, China. World leaders are gathering in Hangzhou for the 11th G20 Leaders Summit from September 4 to 5. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images) China Made Mauricio Macri a Deal He Couldn’t Refuse
Argentina’s president promised to separate his country’s economy from Beijing. That was before Beijing had its say.
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gettyimages-503098826 Ukraine and Poland’s History Wars Are a Gift For Putin
A conflict over Eastern Europe’s fraught World War II history is just the kind of self-inflicted wound Moscow is hoping for.
