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A lens on poverty and the environment: Sebastiao Salgado is dead at age 81 

Known for sweeping black-and-white photography that captured the natural world and marginalised communities, Brazilian p...

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‘No soldiers, no occupation’: Israel’s anti-war protests small, but growing 

“One of the guards came up to me and asked if I was there to save Gaza’s children, then he punched me in the stomach...

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‘Bringing our people home’: Ukraine and Russia swap hundreds of prisoners 

News|Russia-Ukraine war Russia and Ukraine say that they have swapped hundreds of prisoners in the first phase of a maj...

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US judge blocks Trump effort to bar Harvard from enrolling foreign students 

23 May 2025

A United States judge has issued a temporary restraining order against an effort to prevent Harvard University from enro...

South Sudan refugees in Ethiopia face ‘health catastrophe’, charity warns 

23 May 2025

News|Politics Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, has warned of a looming “health catastrophe�...

Pakistan, Afghanistan move towards ‘restoring ties’ in talks with China 

23 May 2025

Islamabad, Pakistan – As Pakistan remained embroiled in a war of words with its archrival India – following a drama...

Rescue bid launched for hundreds trapped in South African gold mine 

23 May 2025

News|Mining Rescue efforts were under way in South Africa on Friday as more than 200 miners were trapped at a gold mine ...

Borders and ballots: Why Essequibo is controversial in Venezuela’s election 

23 May 2025

However, the case has been slowly winding its way through the international court since 2018. And the Maduro government ...

Israel maintains minimal aid deliveries to Gaza amid hunger crisis 

23 May 2025

Aid agencies have continued to criticise Israel after it announced it had sent a small convoy of trucks carrying vital s...

Will the United States deport people to Rwanda? 

23 May 2025

After a plan by the United Kingdom to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda was scrapped last year, Kigali is now in discussio...