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Threatened by Chinese scientific and technological advances, the US has dragooned European countries through the North ...

London Climate Action Week won’t be the launchpad for these mobilisations—but it can be a moment to regroup, refocus, and strengthen our resolve. As the week ends, the priority must be looking ahead: ...

‘It hurts to breathe, please don’t let me fall asleep. If I sleep I won’t be able to wake up again.’ These were the last words of 15-year old Álvaro Conrado, the first victim of a bullet in ...

Secretive and ruthless, the traffickers controlling the kidney trade thrive on the desperation of the poor and the sick. Nancy Scheper-Hughes lays bare the ‘collateral damage’. The slide on the screen ...

From the perspective of these mid-century ambitions, Guyana’s independence was a chronicle of defeat. Just 133 days after his election as chief minister, Jagan was deposed by a British military coup, ...

Fish have outsized importance in Senegal, a nation of 16 million where as many as 1 in 6 people work in or around the industry. Fish is valued, culturally embedded and popular – star of the national ...

Putin’s gas tap. This vast human disaster begs the obvious, trillion-dollar question: why? For some the culprit for higher prices is clear. As former UK prime minister Boris Johnson put it: ‘We’re ...

I was born in 1965, the year the plastic bag was invented. During my childhood, in a boom city in central India, I remember plastic bags were still relatively rare. Only the more expensive shops gave ...

'Punish' China. In Washington, I met Amitai Etzioni, distinguished professor of international affairs at George Washington University. The US, he writes, ‘is preparing for a war with China, a ...