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Published in: Home: NewsTory Lord cutting civil service jobs ‘used official trip to tout for private work’Exclusive: Francis Maude allegedly touted his consultancy firm during ‘fact-finding’ mission
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Published in: Home: FeatureBack to black: What Afghanistan’s new focus on coal tells usTaliban-ruled Afghanistan’s new golden age of coal reveals a country that is going back to old-fashioned ways
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionTo end ‘hell on earth’ the US must free Afghanistan's $7bn reservesBiden must release Afghanistan’s foreign reserves to alleviate suffering, argues Ecuador’s ex-central bank director
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Published in: Home: OpinionThe world burns and the richest profit. It doesn’t have to be this wayAs the effects of the climate crisis are seen in global heatwaves and droughts, oil firms are booming
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureChild workers in Jordan shoulder effects of rising poverty levelsHigh rates of poverty and unemployment make plans to eliminate child labour in Jordan a pipe dream
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Published in: Home: OpinionRwanda: Why the UK needs to acknowledge its role in displacing peopleToday is World Refugee Day. War and climate change, both fuelled by the West, force millions to flee their homes
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureThe volunteers risking their lives to secretly educate Afghanistan’s girlsNine months on from the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul, teenage girls remain deprived of their right to education
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Published in: Home: FeatureWith elections looming, Lebanese state is invisible to most of its peopleAs Lebanon prepares to vote, the film ‘State of Absence’ introduces very different people all struggling with the...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureCrossing the US-Mexico border, just to seeCrossing the US-Mexico border is a lifeline for some. For others, it’s an adventure
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Published in: Home: FeatureNo, decolonising your bookshelf doesn’t mean getting rid of Jane AustenIt is a truth universally acknowledged that the right-wing press will inflame any debate on decolonisation,...
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Published in: 50.50: Feature‘I’d never seen another African man share his transition on social media’Ghali Eden founded the Instagram account Moroccan Transgender Community. It’s one way he’s fighting for the rights...
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Published in: oDR: OpinionWestern hypocrisy: What Joe Biden gets wrong about RussiaThose in the Middle East know the kind of destruction seen in Ukraine all too well – the West was the perpetrator
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionHow Palestine’s climate apartheid is being depoliticisedInternational donor-led schemes promote peacebuilding and collaboration rather than pushing Israel to end its occupation
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Published in: Home: OpinionThe US has no right to take money that belongs to the Afghan peopleAs Afghans sell organs to buy food, the Biden administration announces it will allocate $7bn of seized Afghan assets...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsTory MP’s Wiki page scrubbed of Azerbaijan lobbying – by user in ParliamentBob Blackman’s biography was whitewashed of references to an openDemocracy investigation, but the edit was spotted by a bot
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Published in: Home: OpinionIs ISIS headed for a third wave of violence?A recent attack on a prison in Syria and a massacre of Iraqi soldiers have left many fearing ISIS may soon resurface...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionTunnel warfare: the Islamic State’s subterranean warISIS fighters dug huge networks of tunnels under cities and across borders, as part of their ‘irregular warfare’...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionAlgeria’s political prisoners go on hunger strike amid escalating repressionTrade unionists in the country, who are already ceaselessly persecuted, are being targeted for their role in the...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: InterviewHow have the uprisings of the Arab Spring shaped the path of revolutions?Iranian-American scholar Asef Bayat, author of ‘Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring’, on the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsRevealed: Tory MP was ‘fed’ propaganda by Azerbaijani embassy for parliamentary debatesBob Blackman boasted: ‘On a regular basis I put down positions on behalf of our good friends in Azerbaijan’
