Nestlé, the world’s largest consumer goods company, adds sugar and honey to infant milk and cereal products sold in many poorer countries, contrary to international
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Japan to allow divorced parents to share custody of children
Divorced couples in Japan will for the first time be able to negotiate joint custody of their children after parliament voted this week for changes
Ecuador rations power as Andean drought tightens grip
Ecuador has begun to ration electricity in the country’s main cities as a drought linked to the El Niño weather pattern depletes reservoirs and limits
‘The city is a jail’: Haitian journalists get word out about gang violence
Each day, Makenson Rémy wakes in the hush of the night to tell the story of his shattered home town, Port-au-Prince. Each day, he fears
Conman who swindled $175m in ‘massive’ psychic fraud scheme sentenced to 10 years
A Canadian conman, who swindled more than US$175m (C$241m) from his North American victims through “a massive psychic mass-mailing fraud scheme” has been sentenced to
Canada hands ‘long-overdue’ title over more than 200 islands to Haida Nation
For centuries, the Haida people have known that the impenetrable forests and bountiful waters of Xhaaidlagha Gwaayaai – “the islands at the boundary of the
Europe: Sudan war ‘world’s worst child displacement crisis,’ Paris conference told – as it happened
Sudan during today’s conference. “What we are witnessing in Sudan is the worst child displacement crisis in the world,” she said. And yet, she said,
Liberia senate votes to establish war crimes court
Senators in Liberia have voted overwhelmingly to establish a war crimes court, two decades after civil conflict ended in the west African country. The new
Covid pandemic made poorest countries even worse off, World Bank warns
The devastating impact of the pandemic on the world’s poorest countries has brought poverty reduction to a halt and led to a widening income gap
UK Foreign Office holding secret talks with Sudan’s RSF paramilitary group
Foreign Office officials are holding secret talks with the paramilitary group that has been waging a campaign of ethnic cleansing in Sudan for the past