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What to expect in Gaza, Ukraine, the US elections, China, Europe and the rest of the worldThe year 2024 will be a critical one. The future of Gaza and the West Bank may hinge in part on whether Donald Trump returns to the White House – as may the outco…
Read MoreIn 1971 he advised Nixon to side with Pakistan’s military dictator in his war with Bangladesh, then East Pakistan, writes Robert EvansJonathan Steele’s obituary of Henry Kissinger (29 November) omits reference to his part in what the author G…
Read MoreRescuers have pulled out 41 Indian construction workers who spent two weeks trapped in a tunnel that partially collapsed in India’s northern Uttarakhand state. The 41 men were working on the Silkyara tunnel when a landslide on 12 November caused a part…
Read MoreNew curriculum from 2025 part of push to create sense of national identity among schoolchildrenHong Kong is to introduce “patriotic” education in all primary schools by 2025, in the government’s latest push to “systematically cultivate” a sense of nati…
Read MoreFootage showing armed men dropping from a helicopter and seizing a cargo ship in the Red Sea has been released by Yemen’s Houthis.The video was released by the movement’s TV channel Al Masirah a day after the ship was hijacked by the group, who said th…
Read MoreWith the rivers that feed it drying up, less rainfall and a hotter climate, the world’s largest inland body of water is in peril. With five countries sharing it, can the political will to save this unique habitat be found?Text and photographs by Christ…
Read MoreA state using its revenue to defend its territorial integrity is, or at least should be, uncontroversial, writes ambassador Elin SuleymanovThe territories that Azerbaijan has regained since 2020 have always been unanimously recognised as its sovereign …
Read MoreA Bangladeshi woman was shot dead on Wednesday after police in Dhaka opened fire during a protest held by garment workers demanding higher wages. Anjuara Khatun, a 26-year-old machine operator at Islam Garments in Gazipur, was on her way home after the…
Read MoreSabita Banerji highlights the pitiful pay and conditions of tea plantation workers in response to an article about the high price of the brew While I empathise with Luke Turner’s plea for tea, that most iconic “British” beverage, to be affordable to al…
Read MoreReaders respond to a piece by Aditya Chakrabortty about protesters calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas warAditya Chakrabortty describes the attitude of the British media and political class towards the “worsening conflagration in Gaza” as “agai…
Read MoreA magnitude 6.3 earthquake has struck western Afghanistan, just over a week after powerful quakes and aftershocks killed thousands of people and flattened villages in the same region. Emergency relief teams in Herat province said one person had died an…
Read MoreLet’s not forget the Azeris who had to flee their homes earlier, says Alexis Rowell. And Gascia Ouzounian on why ethnic Armenians had to leave the region nowYour reporting on the Karabakh Armenian exodus (‘It’s a ghost town’: UN arrives in Nagorno-Kara…
Read MoreThe Indian photographer Gauri Gill has been declared the winner of the 10th cycle of the Prix Pictet, the global award for photography and sustainability. She was selected from a shortlist of 12 photographers by an independent jury. Gill’s work emphasi…
Read MoreLeaders of charities and NGOs respond to Suella Braverman’s recent comments attacking the refugee convention in the USWar and persecution are driving record numbers of people, including women and girls, to flee their homes. Most remain in their home co…
Read MoreA lesson from India | Superficial self-care | On yer bike | Sunak SunkRe commemorating slave traders (Letters, 22 September), wandering out the back of the Government Museum in Chennai, India, I chanced on a couple of abandoned statues of imperial maje…
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