On 29 September, after a Houthi missile aimed at Tel Aviv was intercepted by Israeli air defence, Israeli fighter jets ...

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I was born in 1965, the year the plastic bag was invented. During my childhood, in a boom city in central India, I remember plastic bags were still relatively rare. Only the more expensive shops gave ...

But the source of Felix’s seemingly progressive beliefs about women’s sexual pleasure pre-dates Kagame by hundreds of years. Our conversation is not about policy or the post-genocide recovery but ...

L ast week, the UK’s Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, announced his policy for tackling coronavirus: self-isolation. Anyone with a new, continuous cough or high temperature is now advised to ...

November-December 2020 A caring economy: What would it take? Care is what keeps us all going. It’s skilled, emotional, exhausting, rewarding work that props up our lives, households, communities and ...

There are estimated to be some three million migrants and refugees in Libya, mostly Sub-Saharans. They wait and work toward their passage to Europe in a country which now has three governments – one ...

A team of researchers published their results in the journal Nature last year. There have been 40 Ebola outbreaks reported since 1976. Researchers were able to focus on 27 of those: where index cases ...

Throughout history, many of the world’s deadliest conflicts, particularly those in Africa, have been frozen out of the mainstream media. Perhaps the ultimate illustration of this is the war in and ...

Consider the wave of anti-protest regulations introduced by the Conservative Government. The new rules, which have been used to arrest and intimidate environmental campaigners, were developed by a ...

Only military employees are allowed to set foot there and no journalist has been allowed to visit Diego Garcia since the establishment of the base. The UK announced in November that it is planning to ...