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Reduced environmental protections and conservation job losses could hit vital progress on climate and biodiversity, research findsAs Maasai herding lands shrink, so does space for Kenya’s elephantsJob cuts in nature reserves and environmental rollbacks…
British-drafted UN statement watered down by China, Russia and India while military accuses Aung San Suu Kyi of taking bribesThe United Nations has condemned the Myanmar military’s violent crackdown against anti-coup demonstrators as eight more people …
Scientists say the GBSD project is outdated and the result of lobbying rather than a clear sense of what it will achieveThe US is building a new $100bn nuclear missile based on a set of flawed and outdated assumptions, a new report by the Federation of…
In normal times, most diplomats can expect to end a foreign posting with an official – if not always fond – farewell from their hosts and a comfortable journey back to their native country.But for one group of Russian envoys and their families, the&nbs…
Coronavirus pandemic meant the envoys and their families had to travel home in an unconventional way In normal times, most diplomats can expect to end a foreign posting with an official – if not always fond – farewell from their hosts and a comfortable…
While the UK and US strive for herd immunity, Russia and China are leveraging their Covid jabsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage“Today it is easier to get a nuclear weapon than to get a vaccine,” the Serbian president, Aleksan…
From the coup in Myanmar to the autocratic regimes in China and Russia, western values are under increasing threat Blame Joe Biden for not stepping in more quickly, or Donald Trump for encouraging authoritarian rulers. Blame Barack Obama for lifting sa…
The detention and charging of Aung San Suu Kyi reflect the military’s contempt for its peopleMyanmar’s people chose democracy. But the generals who had hogged power for decades never gave it up; they only ceded a portion of it to civilian authorities, …
The video of the Russian leader’s $1bn secret palace reveals his terrible taste as well as his corruptionHero of the week, at the front of an exceptionally competitive field – the 22-year-old inauguration poet Amanda Gorman, the health workers who have…
Covid-19 resurges in South Korea; cases pass 3m in Russia. Follow all the latest on the coronavirus pandemic across the world 9.14am GMT Thai protesters demonstrated on Saturday to demand more action to help seafood sellers hit by a Covid-19 outbreak a…
Cases emerge as Russia becomes latest country to tighten controls on travel from BritainSee all our coronavirus coverageFive cases of the new coronavirus variant spreading fast across the UK have been found in Japan, and Russia has become the latest co…
Joint Russia and China patrol over the Pacific signals stronger military ties between Moscow and BeijingJapan and South Korea have scrambled fighter jets to track Russian and Chinese bombers which flown a joint patrol mission over the western Pacific i…
Step would allow Tehran to come back into compliance with deal, so long as US sanctions were liftedEU foreign ministers have agreed not to set fresh preconditions on a revival of the Iran nuclear deal, believing Tehran and Washington should be able to …
Armenian officials and Azerbaijan point finger at each other over new clashes in Gadrut regionArmenian officials and Azerbaijan on Saturday accused each other of breaching a peace deal that ended six weeks of fierce fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh, with…
Agencies point finger at state-sponsored hackers from China, Russia, Iran and North KoreaWho is targeting vaccine developers?Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageState-sponsored hackers from China, Russia, Iran and North Korea ar…