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As Carrefour expands through master franchises across African cities, local markets face a quiet test of how much global retail a street economy can absorb.

As the Mediterranean warms and rare "medicanes" grow wetter, floods from Valencia to Derna and Safi are exposing how human choices amplify natural storms.

The world governments gathering in Riyadh proved that the days of binary opposition are fading as a confident Gulf leads the charge toward a multipolar era.

Cheap tickets and glossy promises suggest Europe's trains can finally take on planes, yet the realities of infrastructure, price and time tell a more complicated story.

Police cleared an abandoned school in Badalona this week, removing hundreds of people. A local operation that says much more about Europe's housing model.