Canada’s “record-shattering” wildfires last year produced nearly as much greenhouse gas emissions in one season as would be expected over a decade of fires in
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Africa CDC declares mpox outbreak a public health emergency
The African Union’s health watchdog has declared a public health emergency over the growing mpox outbreak on the continent, saying the move is a “clarion
Ex-LRA commander convicted of crimes against humanity in landmark Ugandan trial
A former commander in the feared Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has been convicted of crimes against humanity after the first such war crimes trial in
Sudanese factions using starvation as weapon is ‘cowardice’, US envoy says
The US special envoy for Sudan has accused the two factions in the country’s civil war of “cowardice” before crucial peace talks that are due
Tanzania opposition leaders and supporters arrested in crackdown
Police in Tanzania have arrested leaders of the country’s main opposition party and hundreds of its supporters in a crackdown that started at the weekend.
Conviction of Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai ‘unjust’, says Chris Patten
Chris Patten, the former governor of Hong Kong, has decried as “unjust” a decision by the Chinese city’s top court to uphold the conviction of
Pantanal waterway project would destroy a ‘paradise on Earth’, scientists warn
Dozens of scientists are sounding the alarm that carving a commercial waterway through the world’s largest wetlands could spell the “end of an entire biome”,
World must confront Maduro’s ‘campaign of terror’, Venezuelan opposition leader says
Venezuela’s main opposition leader, María Corina Machado, has accused the country’s strongman president, Nicolás Maduro, of unleashing a horrific “campaign of terror” in an attempt
Lammy plans China visit for September to kick-start high-level engagement
David Lammy is planning a visit to China in September that would fall within the first 100 days of him taking office. The foreign secretary
Marina Hyde on the ‘brave’ inciters of Britain’s race riots; lightning struck my plane and I plunged 3,000m; the delights of the dead hang – podcast
Where are you Tommy and Elon? Marina Hyde finds that those provoking the race riots are far, far away; the dead hang delight – how