By pressuring Mexico to halt oil shipments, Washington is escalating its blockade of Cuba into a direct bid for economic collapse and regime change, argues SEVIM DAGDELEN
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Black lives don’t matter to the Tories
…as evidenced by how human greed is allowed outweigh the importance of African lives, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Matt Hancock is unwelcome as a UN envoy on Covid recovery in Africa
As the government quietly upgrades the role of Britain’s special forces, their growing global footprint and near-total exemption from democratic oversight should alarm us all, says ROGER McKENZIE
A society that grows accustomed to ‘undesirable’ people also grows accustomed to undesirable deaths. Minneapolis serves as a wake-up call, including for our own refugee policies, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
Recent research pushes back the date of the earliest cave art by several thousand years. ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT look into the science applied
As Labour plans a centralised National Police Service, the resignation of a chief constable over the Maccabi football ban reveals how policing, technology and narrative management converge when public order and class power are at stake, says NICK WRIGHT
Sudan’s paramilitary attacked a Chadian military garrison, killing seven soldiers and prompting the government to issue a “final warning. PAVAN KULKARNI reports
THANKFULLY the United Nations has withdrawn its offer to former health secretary Matt Hancock to become a special envoy to help Covid-19 recovery on the continent of Africa.
Apparently a technicality came to light that prevented the UN from proceeding with the appointment.
I suspect that at the UN they have their fair share of lawyers and bureaucratic processes that pretty much everything would have to pass through to agree even which tea bags to use in formal meetings.
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