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The great global vaccine divide

The speed at which the world’s scientists have managed to create several effective Covid vaccines...

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Hostage diplomacy: when will Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe be free?

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has endured a five-year nightmare after being arrested and jailed in...

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The aftermath of a rape

While working in Abu Dhabi launching a literary festival, Caitlin McNamara alleges she was raped...

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Will we need a Covid pass to get into the pub?

The UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, has announced plans for a domestic Covid-status...

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Why is the UK slashing its international aid budget?

Boris Johnson’s government has blamed the Covid crisis for its decision to cut its international...

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Will Tokyo really host a pandemic Olympics?

The Games were meant to be a moment of national celebration but – with coronavirus cases rising...

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Bashar al-Assad’s decade of destruction in Syria

Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, has presided over a devastating civil war that has caused the...

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The biblical mouse plague ravaging New South Wales

Families and farmers in New South Wales are doing everything they can to fend off a biblical...

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The G7 and a crucial moment for the climate

The world’s richest democracies will come together in Britain this week with global heating high...

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What went wrong with the Covid-19 response in the US?

Author and journalist Lawrence Wright has been writing about pandemics for decades. So when...

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Israel’s unlikely coalition: is this the end for Netanyahu?

Israel has a new coalition government made up of eight very different parties. But having ousted...

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Israel’s unlikely coalition: is this the end for Netanyahu?

Israel has a new coalition government made up of eight very different parties. But having ousted...

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Is the truth out there? The US government prepares its landmark report on UFOs

A hotly anticipated US government report on decades of mysterious sightings of UFOs is due for...

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Karim’s story: Egypt’s crackdown on human rights workers

Ten years since the Arab spring rocked Egypt and removed its president, the country is still...

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The Pegasus Project part 3: cartels, corruption and cyber-weapons

In the latest part of our mini-series, Michael Safi hears from Nina Lakhani on how 15,000...

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The Pegasus project part 5: the fightback against private spyware begins

After a week of stories about the abuse of private spyware by governments around the world,...

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The Pegasus project part 5: the fightback against private spyware begins

After a week of stories about the abuse of private spyware by governments around the world,...

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Why a Belarusian Olympic sprinter refused to fly home

The Belarusian Olympic sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya flew out of Tokyo on Wednesday to begin a...

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Has the Delta variant derailed Australia’s zero-Covid strategy?

Australia appeared to be a model case for how to control the spread of Covid-19, but the arrival...

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How the Taliban took Afghanistan

The departure of US forces was followed by a rout of Afghan government forces. Now, after 20...

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