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In South Africa, Nelson Mandela is everywhere. The country’s currency bears his smiling face, at least 32 streets are named for him and nearly two dozen statues in his image watch over a country in flux. Every year on July 18, his birthday, South Africans celebrate Mandela Day by volunteering for 67 minutes—painting schools, knitting blankets or cleaning up city parks—in
Before he led the world’s fourth most populous country, the president of Indonesia was consumed by an even more challenging mission: saving Jakarta. For two years, Joko Widodo served as the governor of a capital city that seemed to teeter on the brink of ruin. Since Indonesia’s independence in 1945, Jakarta had expanded from less than a million people to roughly 30 million. It
It is a colossal figure that will be etched in history: India’s population will soon reach 1.428 billion people, pushing it past mainland China, according to the latest UN estimates. With China’s population declining, the margin between the two countries will only grow as India becomes the most populous country in history. (The exact moment India achieves that distinction
On one side of a glass wall, three toddlers in a nursery school flattened play dough with plastic rolling pins. On the other, three old women in a nursing home tapped the pane to get their attention. “Let’s say hi to the nonni,” the children’s teacher said before leading them through a door that connected the two rooms.
In August, in Prague, the chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz, said it bluntly: “The centre of Europe is moving eastward.” Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been a shock to the complacent European order, both to the European Union and to NATO. And it has underscored and enhanced the influence of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.