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Distinguished clinician and scientist who was a leading figure in the treatment of malaria worlwideThe idea that a traditional Chinese herbal treatment could be the answer to drug-resistant malaria was tough to swallow for many policymakers in global h…
Mākereti Papakura died weeks before handing in her thesis at Oxford university documenting the life and customs of her tribe, work that is still used by Māori todayMore than 100 years ago, a Māori woman packed up her life as a tour guide and entertaine…
My friend Fausto Belo Ximenes, known as Nino, who has died suddenly aged 43, was one of the first Timorese country directors of a major humanitarian agency (Oxfam) in his home country of Timor-Leste.Before Oxfam, Nino worked as a human rights officer w…
Prime minister of India who brought in economic reforms and forged a new relationship with the USThe distinguished economist Manmohan Singh, who has died aged 92, was one of India’s longest serving prime ministers (and the first Sikh to hold the office…
Indian high commission made claim bronze depicting Tirumankai Alvar which it believes may have been lootedOxford University has announced it is to hand back a 500-year-old sculpture of a Hindu saint to India.The almost 60cm-tall bronze statue, which de…
Exclusive: methodology used by Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism risks undermining media in global south, says RessaNobel peace laureate Maria Ressa has claimed Oxford University’s leading journalism institute is publishing flawed research …
University has said Philippines leader was awarded ‘special diploma in social studies’ in 1978, not a BAThe images of a besuited Ferdinand Marcos Jr, clad in a top hat and leaning nonchalantly on a Rolls-Royce, dating from his time in Britain in the 19…
Analysis: the west tried to impose its alien values and it is time to try a new approach, as Joe Biden has indicatedSome years ago, in Afghanistan, the anthropologist Scott Atran asked a Taliban fighter what it would take to stop the fighting, because …
Experts say Russia, Iran and China likely to be behind cyber-attacks on universitiesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHostile states are attempting to hack British universities and scientific facilities to steal research relat…
Ashmolean receives request for restitution of 15th-century idol of Saint Tirumankai Alvar The Indian government has asked the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford to return a 15th-century bronze idol that was apparently stolen from a temple in the 1960s.The Indi…