For Jeffrey Klein, 77, founder of Mother Jones, his Judaism and his desire to help the powerless went hand in hand.

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But the purge of US foreign aid programmes will also affect Ukraine and other former Soviet countries in more insidious ways.

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A plan by Jared Kushner's real estate firm to build a Trump luxury complex in Belgrade has some Serbians outraged.

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All over the world, abstract principles about the right to protection are losing ground to more subjective judgments about ...

A Soviet-era Central Asian pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends ...

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The Crimean peninsula, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, is at the centre of the worst East-West standoff since the Cold War.