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What kind of leader will King Charles III be?

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Richard Drayton is a professor of imperial and global history at King’s College, London. He spoke to The World’s host Marco Werman about what King Charles III’s reign may be like.

Students talk and catch up at Matilda Newport Junior High School, a public school, on the first day of registration for classes in Monrovia.

It’s back to school for these Liberia kids

Culture
Greenpeace set up a faux fracking operation outside the country home of British Prime Minister David Cameron this week to protest a government plan to allow fracking companies to drill under private property without the owners' permission.

Greenpeace decides to create a fracking well — under David Cameron’s home

Environment
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