As the October 2026 presidential election approaches, Brazil’s evangelical churches are getting ready. This religious bloc, now a key political force, is reorganizing itself, identifying its kingmakers, selecting its future candidates, and preparing to regain political power.
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For the past fifteen years, Kim Jong-Un, who rules unchallenged over the world’s most isolated country, has defied the world. What goes on inside his head? We investigate his personality cult, from his hidden childhood in Switzerland to his unbridled love for Walt Disney characters, amusement parks, and basketball, and reveal how he has transformed North Korea into a veritable fortress.
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For decades, European security has depended mainly on NATO, under-written by America. But under the Trump White House, the spectre of US disengagement threatens to leave the EU without its protector. We investigate the main threats facing Europe and examine how Europe can best defend itself.
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Faced with massive budget cuts and the Trump administration’s isolationist policy, many medical researchers are considering leaving America. Europe now has the opportunity to develop better access to the most advanced treatments. But how can this be achieved? Is it possible to adapt the American system to the European one whilst retaining our fundamental principle of equal access to healthcare?
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In Japan, strict social codes dictate everything, down to people’s private lives. Men and women are struggling to meet and form relationships while a 2024 survey revealed that 44% of Japanese marriages are sexless. As a result, the country is gradually depopulating. But Japan is determined to do everything in its power to reverse this demographic curve.
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Today, almost 1,000 radicalised people are confined in French prisons. They account for less than 1% of inmates but are at the centre of the country’s political and media coverage.
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The founders of the kibbutz movement dreamed of creating a new type of community, one that lived in harmony with the land according to socialist, egalitarian principles. But, as times have changed, the kibbutz have aged and lost their meaning, slowly abandoning the principles that underlay their creation. Why?
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