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Religious groups ‘spending billions to counter gender-equality education’

Report reveals how US Christians, Catholic schools and Islamists fight sex education, LGBTQ+ and equal rightsExtreme religious groups and political parties are targeting schools around the world as part of a coordinated and well-funded attack on gender…

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Pope Francis to set off on challenging 12-day Asia-Pacific tour

Pontiff’s itinerary, including visits to Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, reflects importance of Asia to Catholic churchPope Francis is to embark on the longest, farthest and perhaps most challenging trip of his pontificate as he begins a 12-day Asia-Pa…

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‘In Britain, we are still astonishingly ignorant’: the hidden story of how ancient India shaped the west

The flow of knowledge to Europe on maths, astronomy and much more has gone unacknowledged by historians. In AD628, an Indian sage living on a mountain in Rajasthan made one of the world’s most important mathematical discoveries. The great mathematicia…

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The fake news divide: how Modi’s rule is fracturing India – video

India is in the final stages of a general election, and almost one billion people are registered to vote. The country’s prime minister ,Narendra Modi, has been in power for more than 10 years, and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) is s…

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