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Dozens of protestors call for an end to fossil fuel investments and IMF debt for low-income countries during the annual ...

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Children across the UK are used to sell drugs, and the state appears more interested in arresting them than helping ...

Israel does not appear to have the conventional ‘bunker buster’ weapons needed to attack Iran’s underground Fordow uranium ...

Donald Trump has gone fully in on Israel’s war aims. That decision may yet come back to hurt him – and Keir Starmer ...

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Too many in both government and civil society persist in the belief that there should be technocratic solutions to slavery ...

The anti-trafficking movement has long been divided into factions. All groups agree that no one should endure trafficking, ...

The Russian occupation begins Employees of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were not the only ones in the exclusion zone on 24 February. The station was guarded by 169 soldiers from Ukraine’s ...

Labour has quietly dropped legal fight over unlawful crackdown on protest. But what about those already arrested?