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China's growing appetite for durian has mobilized investors in southeast Asia, and Indonesia is looking to get in on the action. But the move doesn't come without environmental and social risks.
France is set to recognise the state of Palestine and the UK may follow – but what does it really mean?
Albanese is not the first Labor Prime Minister to feel the heat over Palestine but now internal pressure is mounting for the government to go further.
Many observers, including NATO’s official communications site, hailed last month’s NATO summit as “historic”, primarily due to a landmark pledge by core member states to increase defence spending to 5 ...
“The worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in Gaza,” UN-backed food security experts said on Tuesday, in a call to action amid unrelenting conflict, mass displacement and the ...
Click to expand Image A food delivery driver in Lone Tree, Colorado, March 30, 2020. © 2020 David Zalubowski/AP Photo The gig economy runs on hidden rules. Every day ...
States must exercise their full diplomatic leverage to pressure Israel to let aid in at the scale required to avert famine.
What springs to mind when you’re asked to think of plastic chairs? Do you picture the ubiquitous lightweight, stackable polypropylene chair sold cheaply in hardware stores worldwide? Or perhaps you ...
As part of this dispute, Baghdad has been withholding funds for ...
Pakistan’s authorities must ensure robust protections for sanitation workers both in law and practice against institutionalized religious and caste-based discrimination, Amnesty International said in ...
However, doing everything for your child robs them of an opportunity to learn.
In Australia, there is growing recognition that children and young people are not just witnesses to domestic, family and sexual violence, but victim-survivors in their own right. While we are getting ...