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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Priorities must change if we’re to end hunger
It’s not that there isn’t enough money to make sure that everyone on the planet has enough food in their stomachs – it’s that politicians choose to spend the money elsewhere, says ROGER McKENZIE
A Somali man and his wife who fled drought-stricken areas build the frame of a makeshift shelter at a camp on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia Saturday, June 4, 2022.
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
WE HAVE to move beyond the vicious cycle of famine, death, aid and exploitation in Africa.
It seems almost trite to say something like this when areas such as the Horn of Africa are experiencing their worst drought in four decades.
But it doesn’t make it less true that we have to find a way of breaking this seemingly never-ending situation even when there have been at least 448 deaths this year at malnutrition treatment centres in Somalia alone.
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