Global hunger toll soars by 150 million as Covid and Ukraine war make their mark
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The number of people going hungry in the world has risen by 150 million since the start of the Covid pandemic, the UN has said, warning that the food crisis sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine risks pushing the wo...
Global dismay as supreme court ruling leaves Biden’s climate policy in tatters
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Joe Biden’s election triggered a global surge in optimism that the climate crisis would, uiteindelik, be decisively confronted. But the US supreme court’s decision last week to curtail America’s ability to cut planet-heat...
Families facing income woes on a par with Greece and Cyprus? That’s ‘global Britain’
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Read this, and you may just put your head in your hands, gather up your family and plan to emigrate. This year’s annual living standards audit from the Resolution Foundation contains graphs that risk plunging readers ...
Dfat bungle delayed visas for former Afghan embassy employees at risk from Taliban
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A file number bungle by an Australian government department caused a four-week delay in helping some Afghan citizens at risk of retribution from the Taliban as the militant group swept to power in Afghanistan, Bewaak ...
‘Perfect storm’ of crises is widening global inequality, says UN chief
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Humanity is facing a “perfect storm” of crises that is widening inequality between the north and south, the UN secretary general has warned. The divide is not only “morally unacceptable” but dangerous, further threate...
Dfat bungle delayed visas for former Afghan embassy employees at risk from Taliban
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A file number bungle by an Australian government department caused a four-week delay in helping some Afghan citizens at risk of retribution from the Taliban as the militant group swept to power in Afghanistan, Bewaak ...
Airbnb to make global party ban permanent
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Airbnb is making its ban on parties at properties listed on the site for short-term rentals permanent, het die maatskappy Dinsdag aangekondig. San Francisco-based Airbnb said it believes the ban has worked to reduce violenc...
Delayed public inquiry into UK’s Covid-19 response opens
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The delayed public inquiry into the UK’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic has been launched after Boris Johnson accepted calls to widen the terms of reference to consider its unequal impact on minority-ethnic people,...