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How the Delta variant changed the course of the COVID-19 pandemic
Last week, I was having a cup of tea during a rare break from the clinic, chatting with one of…
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Column: That time I met KKK Grand Wizard David Duke
Satan recently made a cameo appearance on France’s most watched evening news programme. He popped up to spit enthusiasm on…
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‘Doomed to stay’: The dying villages of Mexico’s Lake Cuitzeo
Listen to this story: Fifty-two-year-old Augustin Rodriguez stands on the withered grass of his front yard and opens the tap.…
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Could lower vaccine doses be key to ending the COVID pandemic?
During an outbreak of Yellow Fever in Brazil in 2018, there was a global shortage of vaccines. In the face…
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The Kenyans robbed of their families by al-Shabab
Garissa, Kenya – Amina* sits close to the edge of her modest home in Garissa, a county in northern Kenya…
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‘Big lumps of protein’: Zimbabwe’s edible-insect farmer
“Oh, they sing! I love their sounds. I love being in a room full of crickets,” enthuses Esnath Divasoni, her…
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Art on the front lines of a changing Sudan
Khartoum, Sudan – On the exterior wall of Khartoum’s morgue, a peach-coloured building attached to a hospital, a spray-painted corpse-hand…
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‘We saw it coming’: The Indigenous leader fighting climate change
Puyo, Ecuador – “People from the outside [of Waorani territory] see empty land but to us [Waorani people] the jungle…
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Tales from an Indian crematorium
Listen to this story: Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh – Deen Dayal Verma has never burned as many bodies as he has…
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Death in a Glasgow hotel: The last years of Badreddin Bosh
It was a Monday afternoon in January 2017 when Adam Abdallah Adam Bosh got the phone call. It was his…
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What my 99-year-old friend taught me about the joy of living
The first time Robina Asti opened the door of her New York City apartment to me, I was struck by…
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The racist roots of the US police
When Derek Chauvin is sentenced on Friday for the murder of George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, the world will…
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‘Watching my world collapse’: The plight of Nigeria’s widows
In Nigeria, stories abound of widows being forced to drink the water used to wash their husband’s corpse – in…
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The man who was not my father
I pull up to a spot by the door. A few cars dot the parking lot, a man and woman…
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Minneapolis marks Juneteenth after official holiday recognition
Minneapolis, United States – On a sunny summer morning in George Floyd Square, a gardener lights palo santo in a…
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The cruel financial cost of losing a child in the US
As Chelsea Johnson watched her six-year-old daughter graduate from kindergarten in May this year, she couldn’t help but also see…
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‘I’m somewhere safe’: Journalists hiding from Myanmar’s military
Three months ago, I was forced to leave Myanmar, the place I had called home for almost a decade. After…
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The long fight to criminalise rape in marriage
“The intercourse which takes place between husband and wife after marriage is not by virtue of any special consent on…
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Desperately seeking relevance: NATO in the 21st century
It is the largest military alliance on the planet, it is more than 70 years old and, for many within…
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