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Putin Is Banking On A Failure Of Political Will In The Weak West
The Russo-Ukrainian war is coming down to a race between the weakening political will of western democracies and the deteriorating military means of Vladimir Putin's dictatorship.
4 min |
August 12, 2022
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Taliban: 'We Didn't Know al-Zawahiri Was Living In Our Capital'
The Taliban leadership said they did not know that al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri had moved to the Afghan capital, Kabul, where the US president, Joe Biden, said he had been killed by a drone strike last month.
4 min |
August 12, 2022
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Thousands Vow Not To Pay Autumn Energy Bills
Like millions of people across Britain, Josina, a teacher from Sheffield, is being pushed into poverty by rising energy prices.
2 min |
August 12, 2022
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Tears of joy as Kansas celebrates abortion rights win
In a conference room at the Sheraton in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park, people screamed, whooped, cheered and cried as a vote to protect abortion rights in Kansas's state constitution came down late last Tuesday night.
3 min |
August 12, 2022
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The simple life: outdoor cooking that's faff-free and delicious
KITCHEN AIDE
2 min |
August 12, 2022
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Reality is only make-believe
Comedian Nathan Fielder's experiment in reality TV is a high stakes game that exposes the building blocks of the genre while creating its own elaborate fictions
4 min |
August 12, 2022
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Do the math
Can learning algebra in your 60s make you smarter and unlock new parts of your brain?
10+ min |
August 12, 2022
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A change of heart
Pig-to-human transplants promise to solve an organ shortage and change the way we think about human longevity, but they also raise a host of questions
10+ min |
August 12, 2022
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Beijing makes its ånger clear
China showed its huge military might in response to Nancy Pelosi's visit but in Taipei calm prevailed
5 min |
August 12, 2022
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Could hemp help wean farmers off their opium crops?
The smell seemed unmistakable, the dried buds looked familiar and the Taliban checkpoint guards, who had never heard of CBD, a nonpsychoactive cannabis compound, were disgusted by Amin Karim's cargo.
3 min |
August 05, 2022
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Why migrant workers are turning to evangelical Christianity
The Pentecostal church is flourishing in Gulf states as low-paid expatriate labourers seek rescue from abuse
3 min |
August 05, 2022
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President's downfall raises hopes of justice for war crimes
Onan April day in 2019, Gotabaya Rajapaksa was enjoying the afternoon with his family in an affluent suburb of Los Angeles.
3 min |
August 05, 2022
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Widow urges activists to 'go forward' after four are executed
The wife of Kyaw Min Yu, a prominent democracy activist whose execution by the Myanmar junta caused global outrage, has urged the country's people not to stop their fight for democracy, but "to go forward with a victory spirit".
3 min |
August 05, 2022
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England’s win against Germany is only the beginning
England won. In the end, perhaps that was the only thing that mattered.
3 min |
August 05, 2022
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Grain export resumes, easing fears of widespread hunger
Analysts express tentative hopes that international efforts to allow ships to cross Black Sea blockade will hold
3 min |
August 05, 2022
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'I hate them' Medvedev's slide from boyish liberal to bitter hawk
Joe Biden is a "strange grandfather with dementia".
4 min |
August 05, 2022
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‘Nobody wants to hear about the war’
Moscow residents are determined to enjoy the summer as public indifference to the conflict grows
6 min |
August 05, 2022
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Chaos and fear, one month after Roe v Wade reversal
Severe new restrictions upend reproductive care across the US. Patients report delays for procedures, as doctors fear vague new laws with criminal penalties. A 10-year-old rape victim was forced to travel out of state to terminate a pregnancy. And activists promise more restrictions to come.
3 min |
July 29, 2022
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String theory
Renowned cellist Abel Selaocoe reflects on his life journey from a South African township to the elite world of classical music
4 min |
July 29, 2022
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A new migration wave is coming-and Europe is not ready for it
After a week when Russia threatened to annex more territory in Ukraine, gas shortages loomed, and inflation and Covid surged across Europe, it seems almost unkind to remind EU and UK leaders of another crisis that is unfolding, largely unremarked, right under their noses. As Claudius laments in Hamlet: "When sorrows come, they come not single spies, / But in battalions."
3 min |
July 29, 2022
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The Tories' inglorious leadership fight ought to fill Labour with joy
The Duke of Wellington, surveying his troops, said he didn't know what effect the spectacle would have on the enemy, "but, by God, they frighten me". What's left of the serious elements of the Conservative party are frightened as they view the battlefield ahead - and they don't expect to win a Waterloo.
3 min |
July 29, 2022
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Catching up: Why are those who dodged the virus for so long now getting it?
Having somehow dodged Covid so far, those who have never seen the two red lines appear on a rapid test have become a shrinking minority. Last week, the White House announced that the US president, Joe Biden, tested positive for Covid, becoming the most high-profile figure yet to join the increasingly exclusive club of people who are only now, in the third year of rife disease, notching up their first infection.
2 min |
July 29, 2022
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Laughing matters: Refugees forge links through the art of comedy
In Athens, a handful of novice standups are at the mic after taking part in a series of comedy workshops. One of the organisers, Vasileia Vaxevani, compares the experience to the first time you have sex. "It ends quickly. It hurts a little.
3 min |
July 29, 2022
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A sofa, $4m and a rising scandal for Ramaphosa
Local media have called it "Farmgate". Astonishing details have leaked over months, embroiling Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa's affable president, in a plot that might be lifted directly from a gritty TV crime series.
3 min |
July 29, 2022
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Meloni twist: Draghi's fall from power may open door to the far right
If last Wednesday marked an undignified end for Mario Draghi's government, one person who enjoyed the spectacle from the sidelines was Giorgia Meloni. The leader of Brothers of Italy, a party with neofascist origins, is in pole position to become prime minister after elections this year.
2 min |
July 29, 2022
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Between bombings and air raids, life in Odesa goes on
Barely 12 hours after Moscow signed a deal with Ukraine to allow monitored grain exports from Ukraine's southern ports, Russia targeted the country's main port of Odesa - through which grain shipments would take place with cruise missile strikes.
4 min |
July 29, 2022
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Capitol crimes: A conspiracy was laid barebut where does it end for Trump?
During its landmark hearings, the House select committee investigating the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol has sought to show that Donald Trump was at the centre of a conspiracy to seize a second term in office, accusing him of having "summoned the mob, assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack".
4 min |
July 29, 2022
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Prima facie?
The Capitol riot hearings have set out shocking evidence against Donald Trump - but in the key swing state of Wisconsin, Republicans aren't changing their views of the ex-president
4 min |
July 29, 2022
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Lucky dip Bathers flock to cleaned-up beaches
0n the beach in Sheikh Ijlin, a neighbourhood south of Gaza City, no one is paying attention to a nearby] Islamic Jihad military drill.
2 min |
July 22, 2022
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Anger rises in Jenin, two months after murder of journalist
It's early morning in Jenin in the north of the occupied West Bank, but the summer sun is already hot.
4 min |