The Ontario premier, Doug Ford, has said an early election is needed in the Canadian province in order to fend off an income “attack” from
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Belize removes Queen Elizabeth’s image on banknotes as ‘step in decolonisation’
Belize has taken a “significant step” toward removing the remnants of colonialism by replacing the image of the late Queen Elizabeth on its dollar bills
Scientists point to Andes potato pathogen as origin of Irish famine
It was a disaster that killed about 1 million people, devastating 19th century Ireland, but while the potato disease linked to the Irish famine is
How the world has responded to Trump’s Paris climate agreement withdrawal
World leaders, senior ministers and key figures in climate diplomacy have, one by one, reaffirmed their commitment to the Paris agreement this week, in response
UN alarm as M23 rebel group closes in on Goma in eastern DRC
António Guterres has voiced alarm over the M23 rebel group’s advance towards eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo’s largest city, in a renewed insurgency that
Europe overhauls funding to Tunisia after Guardian exposes migrant abuse
The European Commission is fundamentally overhauling how it makes payments to Tunisia after a Guardian investigation exposed myriad abuses by EU-funded security forces, including widespread
Italy says Libya war crimes suspect was sent home due to ‘social dangerousness’
Italy’s interior minister said on Thursday a Libyan man detained under an international war crimes arrest warrant and then unexpectedly released had been swiftly repatriated
Jamaican city gripped by violence after police shooting of gang boss
Schools and businesses in a Jamaican city have been closed and taxis and buses stopped running after the police shooting of a powerful gang boss
Canada’s top court to hear challenge to controversial Quebec secularism law
Canada’s top court has agreed to hear a challenge to Quebec’s controversial secularism law, paving the way for a fierce debate over provincial powers and
‘We were betrayed’: families of apartheid victims sue South African government
Lukhanyo Calata’s first memory of his father was the funeral. His mother sobbing, the earth beneath his feet shaking from the number of people gathered