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 ...

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 ...

At least 28 Palestinian artists and writers have been killed since the beginning of Israel’s devastating bombardment of Gaza. It is a number that is easy to lose sight of given the wider horrifying ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ouarzazate is a beautiful town in south-central Morocco, where ruddy orange earthen Kasbahs stand tall, as they have for centuries, on a high plateau between the snow-topped Atlas mountains that form ...

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 ...