Without energy and without a strategic partner, Cuba is currently fighting for its survival. While the population is literally sitting in the dark, the Trump administration is trying to definitively break the socialist project through economic blackmail. What lies ahead for the island, asks MARC VANDEPITTE
Hunt sabs: British wildlife’s first line of defence
A day in the field seeing direct action in defence of wildlife first hand gave DAWN EVANS hope for the desperate fight to save biodiversity
'The sabs leapt into action. We drove down the country roads with assured confidence to various locations where, owing to their intimate knowledge of the terrain, the sabs knew the hunt was likely to head for.'
A setback for IG Metall at Tesla’s Berlin plant has ignited claims of intimidation and raised fears for the future of collective bargaining and workplace democracy, says TONY BURKE
The question for the media, in the US and across the globe, says ROGER McKENZIE, is will they do their job fearlessly and call Donald Trump out?
A recent Financial Times column on the Iran war exemplifies how the Western elite worldview is more concerned with strategy and power than legality or human life, writes ANDREW MURRAY
STEVE BISHOP considers the prospects for a settlement of the conflict and how the demands of both sides are being viewed
The PM is drawing cautious distance from Donald Trump over Iran – but history suggests Britain’s support may run deeper than it appears, just as it did during the Vietnam war, says KEITH FLETT
THE Cop15 UN Biodiversity Summit, billed as the last chance for the world’s ecosystems to be saved, is currently taking place in Montreal, running from December 7-19.
The summit’s statement of intent reads: “Governments from around the world will come together to agree on a new set of goals to guide global action…to halt and reverse nature loss.”
That is the aim — but shocking UN statistics reveal that over the last 40 years there has been over 70 per cent decline in wildlife globally, and scientists say that a million species are now at risk of dying out. Britain is among the bottom 10 per cent of the most nature-depleted countries with one in seven species at risk of extinction.
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