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Creditors will monitor Greek social spending closely

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GREECE

EU budget surveillance.

Peru teachers' strike ends, but will not be the last

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PERU

However, the government and the strikers failed to reach agreement on the key topic of institutionalising periodic evaluations of teachers’ competence. Marilu Marten’s future as…

Language concessions in Ukraine will exclude Russian

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UKRAINE

Ukraine's new education law was designed to reduce the role of Russian in schools but has enraged EU states with minorities in the country as well as Moscow. Hungary has…

South Africa's universities face major funding crisis

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SOUTH AFRICA

Outlook for higher education in South Africa.

Few anti-poverty efforts likely in Mexico pre-election

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MEXICO

Poverty.

Russia erodes minority rights through education cuts

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RUSSIA

School provision for minority languages in Russia.

ASEAN-Australia relations will grow

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ASEAN/AUSTRALIA

Besides a leaders’ plenary and retreat, there were events linked to four thematic tracks: business; climate and clean energy; maritime cooperation; and emerging leaders…

Afghan Taliban will look past UN in seeking engagement

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AFGHANISTAN

The Taliban were invited but refused to attend. There was no decision on appointing a UN special envoy for Afghanistan as mandated recently, although UN Secretary-General Antonio…

France’s Macron seeks to refocus domestic agenda

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FRANCE

Macron lacks a parliamentary majority and the political atmosphere is acrimonious following the passage of controversial pension reforms. Rebooting the government might create the…

Trump will tilt further towards US religious right

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UNITED STATES

The US political influence of the religious right.