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Five key moments in the assault on the rights of women and girls in 2025
Since Trump’s second term began in January, global healthcare, especially for sexual and reproductive health, has been under constant attack
This time last year, women’s rights organisations were bracing themselves for a second Trump term. Few were prepared for the chaos that would be unleashed in January. The volume and speed of executive orders coming out of the White House were seen
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South Africa in talks with Russia over men ‘tricked’ into fighting in Ukraine
Government says it received distress calls, as daughter of ex-president Jacob Zuma accused of luring men to frontline
South Africa’s government is in talks with Russia to bring home 17 South African men fighting for Russia in Ukraine, after the men were allegedly tricked on to the frontlines of the war by a daughter of former South African president Jacob Zuma.
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Libya looks to its past to build a new future as national museum reopens
It is hoped the institution can help foster new bonds in a fractured nation, but such optimism will be a stretch for some
It was a night at the museum like no other. As the staccato sound of firecrackers and explosions rang out across Martyr’s Square in the heart of Tripoli, for once it was not Libya’s militias battling it out for a larger stake in the country’s oil economy, but a huge
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Ghanaian students at UK universities face deportation amid funding crisis
Group asks Keir Starmer for help to persuade Ghanaian government to pay backlog of tuition fees and living allowances
Students from Ghana at UK universities say they are in danger of being deported after being stranded by their own government without promised scholarships or tuition fee payments.
The group representing more than 100 doctoral students has petitioned Downing Street
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Little Foot hominin fossil may be new species of human ancestor
Australian researchers think the skeleton found in South Africa is not the same species as two found in the same South Africa cave system
Little Foot, one of the world’s most complete hominin fossils, may be a new species of human ancestor, according to research that raises questions about our evolutionary past.
Publicly unveiled in 2017, Little Foot is the most complete
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Trump orders blockade of sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela
Move comes amid escalating campaign against Maduro as Venezuelan government condemns ‘grotesque threat’
Donald Trump has ordered “a total and complete” blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela, ramping up pressure on the country’s authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro.
The move comes amid an
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Pentagon won’t release full video of Caribbean strike that killed two people, Hegseth says
Legal experts have raised concerns US forces may have committed a war crime by killing survivors of initial strike
The Pentagon will not make public the full video of a September attack in the Caribbean that killed two individuals as they were clinging to the wreckage of a burning boat, Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday.
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US designates Colombia’s biggest drug cartel Gulf Clan as terrorist organization
Marco Rubio calls drug-trafficking militia, present in at least 20 of Colombia’s departments, ‘violent and powerful’
The US has designated the Gulf Clan, Colombia’s largest and most powerful illegal armed criminal group, as a foreign terrorist organisation.
The notorious drug-trafficking militia with its roots in far-right
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At least three authors withdraw from Hay festival in protest at Machado invite
Writers cited Machado’s support for Trump’s pressure campaign against Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro
At least three writers have withdrawn from next month’s Hay festival in Cartagena, Colombia, in protest at an invitation extended to the Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel laureate María Corina Machado.
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Mark Carney criticised for using British spellings in Canadian documents
Linguists say the prime minister’s use of ‘s’ instead of ‘z’ breaks national English conventions
Mark Carney says that amid a fundamental shift to the nature of globalisation, his government will catalyse the growth in both the public and private sector.
But Canadian linguists say that’s a problem.
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