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The shock waves emanating from Donald Trump becoming the presumptive Republican candidate for President have not subsided.

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MANILA, Philippines -- With a new president soon entering office, the Philippines is facing a potential foreign policy shakeup. The country needs to improve its ties with its close neighbor, China. But it still needs the warm embrace of its distant relative, the United States.

The world is a better place for women and girls in 2016 than even a decade ago. But not for everyone, and definitely not everywhere

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His stubbornness has led a nation rich in resources to misery and his incendiary oratory is now pushing it towards a violent explosion.

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Through the EU-Turkey deal, Europe is sending a troubling signal to the rest of the world: countries can buy their way out of providing asylum.

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While the corruption scandal and political crisis are destabilizing the economy in the short-run, Brazil's response marks a turning point for the country. Brazilian institutions, not corrupt powerbrokers, are shaping the distribution of power.

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For 200 years, there have been two schools of thought about what determines the distribution of income -- and how the economy functions. It is important to understand both, because our views about government policies and existing inequalities are shaped by which of the two schools of thought one believes provides a better description of reality.

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BEIRUT -- Serious pressure is being applied to Putin to come down from the high wire along which he has warily trod until now, balancing Russia's Western-aligned elites on one hand and those concerned that Russia faces a real military and geo-financial threat from NATO on the other.

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The New York billionaire is the incarnation of a recurring theme in both American and world history. We live in a time that is characterized chiefly by uncertainty, and in this growing uncertainty Trump is the perfect spokesperson for expressing the ideas of the "old Europe" right.

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YEREVAN, Armenia -- A lot of leaders in the West are appalled that Donald Trump, whom they see as a demagogue, bully and know-nothing, has a shot at becoming president of the United States. Many countries in the former Soviet Union are pulling for the presumptive Republican candidate, however.

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NEW DELHI -- Trump's bulldozing of his rivals through the nominations process has seemingly been designed around digging up the land around conservative politics in America, and digging it deeper than anyone else before. The aim has been to gain not just the conservative vote but to ensure that the ultra-conservative, racist, xenophobic and ignorant voices in America get some mainstream exposure as well.

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Dilma, contrary to everything that some people expect of a woman, did not cry, did not lose her temper, did not throw a fit. She worked firmly and seriously. She did not act "like a little girl."

It was not until the middle of the 20th century that Italy began to reconstitute its foundations and embark on an economic miracle. In many ways, the Philippines is caught in the same interregnum.

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SAO PAULO -- Michel Temer was little known outside of political circles until his appointment as Rousseff's Vice President, but the 75-year-old politician -- who served as speaker of the lower house of Congress three times -- knows the ins and outs of his party and of Congress.

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HONG KONG -- Trump capitalizes on a dangerous combination of isolationism and hawkishness. Against this background, Asian countries should work to remake geopolitics so it is no longer stuck in the post-war narrative where America's overwhelming military supremacy is viewed as the only way to solve the world's problems.

If the U.S. and Russia were successful in cooperating in this important area, they might be encouraged to cooperate in other areas of mutual interest, and, in time, even begin to work to resolve other differences. The security of the whole world would be improved if they could do so.

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MANILA, Philippines -- In the Philippines presidential election this week, many of the voters felt that enough was enough. The Aquino administration was a disappointment to many. Most cast their votes for change -- the more radical, the better.