‘Every year it gets worse’: on the frontline of the climate crisis in Bangladesh
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Ever since she was a little girl, Amina Ahmed has been afraid of the water. Growing up in Sylhet, north-east of Bangladesh, the heavy rainfall that typically occurs during monsoon season would make her anxious. But th...
‘Placate her anger’: investigation dismisses allegations of domestic violence against Queensland police officer
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A Queensland police whistleblower said the police chose not to pursue credible domestic violence allegations against a serving officer, after dismissing his wife as having “mental health issues” and needing to be “cal...
Climate protesters glue themselves to National Gallery artwork
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Supporters of Just Stop Oil have once again glued themselves to a significant artwork in a major UK gallery, a day after invading the track at Silverstone and disrupting the British Grand Prix. Just before 2.30pm, two...
Papua New Guinea to head to polls amid election violence fears
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Papua New Guinea is heading to the polls on Monday and there are fears the vote could be more violent than the 2017 elections, in which more than 200 people died. Violence has plagued the lead-up to the vote. Local me...
‘Condemning everyone alive’: outrage at US supreme court climate ruling
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Amid heat records being shattered across the world and historic wildfires raging across the west, climate activists and policymakers working to aggressively curb greenhouse gas emissions are now facing a new kind of c...
Meat, monopolies, mega farms: how the US food system fuels climate crisis
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Food and the climate crisis are locked in a tangled web of cause and effect. Globally, food systems contribute about a third of all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, yet they are also uniquely vulnerable to climate impa...
Labor orders review of Covid vaccine contracts signed under Coalition
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Covid vaccine contracts signed under the former Coalition government could be altered or scrapped by the new Labor administration, with the health minister, Mark Butler, calling a review of jab supplies “as a matter o...
Killing of Hindu tailor prompts internet shutdown in Indian state over unrest fears
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Fearing outbreaks of religious violence, police in the Indian state of Rajasthan banned public gatherings and suspended internet services a day after two Muslims posted a video claiming responsibility for killing a Hi...