World

The Greens are the first cab off the rank about the government’s loss on ensuring integrity. From Adam Bandt: “This is a victory for working Australians and for Australia’s democracy. This is a victory for the power of organising and of…
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When Amra Mansur was working as a makeup artist in Abuja, while she studied law, she would overhear conversations between would-be brides and older relatives about how to please their men in the bedroom. The older, mostly female relatives…
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Sign up for the Week in Patriarchy, a newsletter​ on feminism and sexism sent every Saturday. The USWNT are the heroes America needs Help! I think I have lost my girlfriend to the US women’s soccer team. She can’t get enough of the World…
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Officials in Saudi Arabia privately complained about the kingdom’s low ranking on an influential press freedom index, less than one year after the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi by a Saudi murder squad. Campaigners at Reporters…
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The Conservatives have been plunged into controversy after a video showed a minister grab and manhandle a protester who disrupted the chancellor’s Mansion House speech. Police began looking into the incident on Thursday night after footage…
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Record numbers of people have been forced from their homes by conflict in a crisis that has received “pitiful” international attention, the head of the Norwegian Refugee Council has said. A total of 41.3 million people were living in a…
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A close ally of the rightwing activist Tommy Robinson is facing a possible police investigation after fights broke out during an European election campaign event in Warrington. Two people needed hospital treatment as trouble flared shortly…
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Who has the answers? The UN? Scientists? Entrepreneurs? Nation states? “Ordinary” people? There is another subset of power, agency, ideas and progress that often gets overlooked in the search for solutions to the world’s problems. There are…
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The Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, has said 'the time to fight has come', in a televised address surrounded by his military high command. Maduro gave the warning following clashes in the past two days after the opposition attempted a…
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Recordings obtained by the Guardian show Republican state representative Matt Shea and several associates telling an audience to arm themselves for a looming civil war. The audio was taken in a remote north-eastern religious compound in…
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