- Asia Pacific, Colonialism, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Food & drink industry, Human rights, Indonesia, Mondelēz, Nestlé, Palm oil, Procter & Gamble, West Papua, World news
West Papuan Indigenous people call for KitKat boycott over alleged ecocide
Thousands of acres of rainforest is being cleared to produce palm oil, used in popular Nestlé and Mondelēz bra…
- China, Commodities, Donald Trump, Europe, Manufacturing sector, Ukraine, US news, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, World news
What is the Ukraine minerals deal – and why does Trump want it signed?
Zelenskyy is likely to visit the US this week to sign a deal on Ukraine’s rare earth minerals, according to Tr…
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Uncontacted hunter-gatherers facing threat of genocide because of minerals mining, claims report
Survival International says Hongana Manyawa in Indonesia are at risk but mining company says the people in ‘vo…
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Climate crisis to increase cancer risk for tens of millions of people in Bangladesh
Scientists say sea level rises, flooding and extreme weather will accelerate release of arsenic into water sup…
- Afghanistan, Ben Wallace, Defence policy, Nato, Politics, South and Central Asia, UK news, World news
Nato was a political failure in Afghanistan, says defence secretary
Ben Wallace says west’s ‘resolve was found wanting’ but Taliban did not inflict military defeatNato’s politica…
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Merkel says vaccine patent waiver ‘not the solution’ – as it happened
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US administers first vaccine dose to more than 100m – as it happened
Germany warns cases could hit Christmas peak by April; Australia records first local Covid case in more than t…