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Taxpayer’s money also going to companies found to be flouting human rights in Kenya and DRC, says Commons committee
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Seeing a trapped bird led Amit and Abhishek Jain to dedicate their spare time to rescuing dozens of creatures every day
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Two families are celebrating a supreme court victory that will allow them to stay together, and offers hope in the ongoing battle for rights across Africa
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Rania Matar has found inspiration in Beirut’s resilient women, trying to rebuild lives after the huge blasts that wrecked the city
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The west African country, a leading cotton producer, is moving into processing finished goods, seen as a route to prosperity
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Despite the WHO declaring it eliminated in 1998, thousands of tea pickers have caught the disease
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CCC spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere convicted over tweet in 2021 as Zanu-PF accused of curbing free speech
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Almost 12% of Nepali migrant workers who die abroad, mainly in the Gulf and Malaysia, take their own lives
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She lost both her parents to Aids as a teenager in Zimbabwe. Nearly three decades later, the medical researcher leads a mission to find a vaccine
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Risk of unrest rises amid fourth dry year, poor grain harvest, weak economy and likely food subsidy cuts
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As the first shantytown falls to the bulldozer under France’s operation ‘take back’, people on the Indian Ocean island tell of living in constant fear
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Ahead of a trial of journalists who covered the death of Mahsa Jina Amini, reporters describe beatings and threats as government agents try to wipe out independent media
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Workers at World Cup 2022 venues fired as tournament ended and allegedly jailed or deported after trying to claim unpaid wages
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This weekend’s Arab League summit will embolden the regime to continue its crimes, including the forced disappearances of hundreds of thousands of innocent Syrians
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Despite the pain of the condition, diagnoses take seven years on average globally. In India, where 42 million women have the disease, cultural stigmas can make the delay even longer
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With resources stretched, a computer questionnaire is helping to screen people at risk from depression and alcohol abuse
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First as US national security adviser, then as secretary of state, Henry Kissinger intervened around the world during the 1970s, shaping events in China, Africa and the Middle East, with consequences that reverberate today
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