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The Vienna Convention makes diplomats almost untouchable by design, leaving waivers, expulsions and cases like Harry Dunn's to show how…
Each Panama Canal transit flushes roughly 200 million litres of fresh water into the sea, so drought forces the authority to ration…
Seven states claim wedges of Antarctica, and the 1959 Antarctic Treaty neither accepts nor rejects any of them, freezing the dispute under…
Migrant workers send home roughly three times what rich countries give in foreign aid, and the fees skimmed from those transfers remain one…
Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile can hold 74 billion cubic metres, and the row with Egypt turns on colonial-era water…
Japan's population has fallen by roughly five million since its 2008 peak, and its responses — automation, quietly expanded work visas and…
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