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Global Report
Joe Biden said the release on Monday of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report showed that “we can’t wait to tackle the climate crisis. The signs are unmistakable. The science is undeniable. And the cost of inaction keeps mounting.” Muc
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Deaths
Powerful US union boss who rose from the coalmines of Pennsylvania to preside over the AFL-CIO, one of the largest labour organisations in the world. He died on 5 August, aged 72. Newsreader in Australia for Channel Nine until 2002, and before that t
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Eyewitness Syria
Displaced Syrians from 12 different camps gather at a field in Fuaa, Idlib province, to contest their own miniature version of the Olympics. Idlib is home to nearly 3 million people, two-thirds of them displaced from other parts of the country during
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Science And Environment
In a rarely seen phenomenon in the simian world, a nine-year-old female known as Yakei has become the boss of a 677-strong troop of Japanese macaque monkeys at a nature reserve on the island of Kyushu in Japan. Yakei’s path to the top began in April
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Eyewitness
Dancers backstage during rehearsals at Edinburgh’s outdoor MultiStory venue. The Edinburgh festival Fringe returned last weekend with a reduced hybrid programme of almost 800 in-person and online shows after its cancellation last year because of the
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Atlantic Route Exacts A Deadly Toll From Hope
Three fishermen were at work 6km off the southern coast of Tobago not long after dawn on 28 May when they spotted a large white boat adrift on the sea. As they drew closer, they noticed a strong smell. The body that the fishermen glimpsed at the bow
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Deadly Crossings, A Global Warning And Boarding School Blues
In Europe’s ongoing migrant crisis, much media attention understandably focuses on Mediterranean sea crossings from North Africa. But our big story this week focuses on another deadly passage, from Africa’s western coast to the Spanish Atlantic terri
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Lack Of Safe Options Under Fire As 10,000 Migrants Cross Channel
British charities have criticised a “shameful” lack of safe alternatives for migrants after the number making the life-threatening journey across the Channel between France and England in small boats this year surpassed 10,000. The total includes at
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Risky Voyage
Deaths recorded this year (up to 8 August) on the Atlantic route to the Canary Islands from West Africa. But it is thought the true number of fatalities is far higher Estimate of the actual death toll on the route between January and the end of June
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Global report United Kingdom
Pakistani exiles living in London who have criticised the country’s powerful military have been warned that their lives are in danger, raising fresh concern over authoritarian regimes targeting foreign dissidents in the UK. British security sources a
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Beyond All Doubt, Humans Cause Global Heating. The Question Is: Are We Too Late?
It is unequivocal.” Those stark three words are the first in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report. The climate crisis is unequivocally caused by human activities and is unequivocally affecting every corner of the planet’s lan
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The Fires Of Earth
Some of the worst blazes in Europe have been raging amid blistering temperatures. Evia, Greece’s second largest island, was under severe threat and thousands have fled their homes. Already, the extent of the destruction is greater than previous fire
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Greece And Italy Devastated As EU Sends Firefighters
The devastating scale of destruction from a week of wildfires in Greece and Italy was being assessed as the EU mounted one of its largest firefighting operations ever and smoke from forest fires in Siberia reached the north pole. As UN experts on Mon
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Eyewitness France
Huan Huan, a giant panda at Beauval zoo, in Saint-Aignansur-Cher, central France, nurses the twin cubs she gave birth to on 1 August. Huan Huan and the father Yuan Zi are both on loan to France from China; Peng Liyuan, the wife of President Xi Jinpin
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‘It’s A Danger’ Exiles Fear Long Arm Of Vengeful Lukashenko
It is a fraught and dangerous time to be a Belarusian activist or dissident abroad, where the scrambling of a MiG-29 to ground a passenger plane, the abortive “kidnapping” of an Olympic sprinter and a possible “murder disguised as suicide” in Ukraine
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From Cuba To Brazil, Covid Stirs Up A Wave Of Volatility
For Filipe da Silva, hitting the streets was about staying alive. “Unfortunately, Brazil elected a murderer,” the 28-year-old declared as he and thousands of fellow protesters streamed through the seaside city of Fortaleza last month to decry the pre
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Is Starmer Still The Right Leader Of Labour’s Divided Pack?
Keir Starmer will be packing the laptop as well as the buckets and spades as he heads to Devon for a family break this month; aides say he plans to use the holiday to work on a first draft of his party conference speech. It will be the Labour leader’
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As The Games End, Olympic Joy Reverts To Covid Anxiety
Japan broke two records last week. Last Thursday as its athletes took their medal haul to a peak in Japanese Olympic achievement, Tokyo reported 5,042 coronavirus cases – the highest daily total since the start of the pandemic. In the days after the
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Nigeria Tried To Ban Bitcoin. How Did It Work Out?
When the Nigerian government suddenly banned access to foreign exchange for textile import companies in March 2019, Moses Awa* felt stuck. His business – importing shoes from Guangzhou, China, to sell in the northern city of Kano and his home state o
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Cache Converters
Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency, created in 2009, and remains the most widely known and valuable. It’s a digital or virtual asset, operating outside of the traditional banking system, and its influence has soared, with many companies now accepti
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Unconsolable? Video Game Curbs May Leave Western Parents Feeling Envious
China’s regulators are on the march again, pushing one of the country’s most valuable technology companies, Tencent, into fresh curbs designed to limit the time children spend playing its video games. The announcement led to a collapse in Tencent’s s
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Scepticism Greets Xi’s Tutoring Crackdown
Ms Hu spent a third of her annual income in 2018 sending her child to summer school in Shanghai. “My son started to learn English at age five. I feared he would be left behind if we don’t do so,” she said Hu and her husband are among the vast majorit
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North Sea ‘Atlantis’ Yields Up Its Ancient Secrets
The idea of a “lost Atlantis” under the North Sea connecting Britain by land to continental Europe had been imagined by HG Wells in the late 19th century, with evidence of human inhabitation of the forgotten world following in 1931 when the trawler C
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‘It’s All Noise’ Latter-day Crusoe On Life Off His Island
Every morning, Mauro Morandi woke up to the sea view that only he was privy to. Immersed in nature, he was intimately in tune with the dawn sounds and habits of the wildlife that surrounded his home, a former second world war shelter on Budelli, the
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‘Can’t Cope’ How Heat Is Destroying Plant And Animal Life
When forecasts foreshadowed the Pacific north-west’s devastating heatwave at the end of June, marine biologist Christopher Harley was alarmed and intrigued. Then came the smell, and his feelings somberly shifted. “It was this putrid smell of decay,”
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Displaced First Nations Step On To Front Line Against Fires
When Tyler Vander Griend saw thick black smoke rising above the village of Lytton in western Canada, his first instinct was to run towards the inferno. But the flames were moving too fast, and Vander Griend, a lanky youth from the First Nation commun
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Fire Facts
Size of the fire (in hectares) that was still burning one month after destroying the town of Lytton Number of wildfires burning in the region of British Colombia Number of people from surrounding communities displaced by the Lytton blaze ■
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‘Nice Ideas’ Carlson And Far Right See Orbán As A Model Leader
‘In the last few nights in Budapest,” mused Tucker Carlson, US rightwing media star, “I’ve run into a number of Americans who have come here because they want to be around people who agree with them, who agree with you. Do you see Budapest as a kind
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The Childhood Of A Leader
I HAD A FEELING I COULDN’T IMMEDIATELY PLACE. I WANTED TO GO OUT BUT WASN’T ALLOWED. Shelves were emptying at the nearest supermarket and, instead of fresh fruit and vegetables, I was eating British comfort food – sausages and mash, pie and beans. My
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Don’t Look Now
ONE FRIDAY IN APRIL 2016, as the polarising US presidential race intensified, and more than 30 armed conflicts raged around the globe, approximately 3 million people spent part of their day watching two reporters from BuzzFeed wrap rubber bands aroun
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Harder Borders Are A Legacy Of Covid That We Should Reject Nesrine Malik
Moira Hunt hasn’t seen her mother in more than 18 months. Hunt and her husband, Shane, live in the UK but are from Australia, where Moira’s mother is about to be admitted to hospital. In her 70s, she has had to cope with the pandemic and her own illn
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Gnarly, Half-rotten, Old Trees Are Precious. We Need To Cherish Them George Monbiot
We have a slow food movement and a slow travel movement. But we’re missing something, and its absence contributes to our escalating crisis. We need a slow ecology movement, and we need it fast. The majority of the world’s species cannot withstand any
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Nothing Short Of Transforming Society Will Avert Disaster Patrick Vallance
The release of the first part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s sixth assessment report made for stark reading. It reaffirmed that anthropogenic climate change is real, present and lasting. Extreme events are being felt across the wo
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Iran’s Hardliners May Hold Sway, But The West Must Not Shrink From Dialogue
A hardline president has taken charge in Iran. An inexperienced government in Israel is threatening military action against Tehran. A shadow war is being waged in the Gulf. Iran’s ally, Hezbollah, is firing missiles into Israel from chaotic Lebanon.
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Letters
It is good to hear that “Henrys are relatively robust and easy to mend” (“Hello, sucker”, 6 August). However, before getting carried away by their robotic smiles, we might remember that vacuum cleaners, along with their inseparable companions, fitted
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The Every Man
DEV PATEL WAS ENJOYING THE RIDE, BUT PEOPLE WERE SAYING THE HORSE WAS TOO SMALL. It was the winter of 2019. Patel was in Ireland, preparing for his latest film, The Green Knight, in which he spends long periods on horseback. The Green Knight is direc
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‘Creativity Is Activism’
When Max Richter sat down to compose a ballet score in 2015, he knew what he wanted to say. In April of that year, an overcrowded vessel had sunk off Libya, en route to Italy, killing at least 800 migrants – including children aged between 10 and 12.
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Independence Day
Fredo The second Fredo album in the space of six months begins in portentous style. There’s an extract from an 1852 speech given by the former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass – a speech that contrasted the celebration of “freedom” on 4 July
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What Lies Beneath
Divers investigating an underwater canyon off California made a startling discovery in 2002. They found a dead whale that appeared to be wrapped in a crimson, shag-pile carpet. Closer examination revealed this shroud was made of red worms, previously
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Fine Young Cannibals
The treatment of female celebrities in the first decade of the century has been subject to much dissection – those who spent their teens watching it through the lenses of the paparazz i and the women’s magazine have come of age, and those who suffere
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Puzzles
1 Show that the difference of the reciprocal of two consecutive whole numbers is always the reciprocal of a whole number but the sum of the reciprocals of two whole numbers never is. Find the correct definition: COQUELICOT a) poppy red b) poached egg
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Nothing But The Truth
‘The appearance of simplicity is not the same thing as simplicity itself,” thinks the narrator of Intimacies after discovering her Dutch boyfriend, Adriaan, is married. Similarly, while Katie Kitamura’s writing is of the Orwell-approved “clear pane o
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‘Podiuming’
Have you been podiuming over the past few weeks? This is either winning a medal (so stepping on to the podium) at the Olympics, or it’s shouting hoarsely into an uncaring gale that “podium is not a verb”. In ancient Rome the podium was the raised pla
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№ 132 Blueberry Cake With Elderflower Cream
Prep 15 min Cook 40 min, plus cooling Serves 12 • VEGAN• DAIRY FREE 500g plain flour350g soft light brown sugar1 tbsp baking powder1 tsp bicarbonate of soda¼ tsp sea salt160ml olive oil – I like to use extra-virgin here360ml whole oat milk1 tbsp appl
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Different Strokes: ‘It Dawns On Me That I’m A Very Talented Painter’
Have you forgotten to buy a loved one a birthday present? Get a card, then draw a picture inside of you giving them the gift you intend to buy them later. It’s a charming IOU. I’m not the best at hands or faces, so the result often resembles demons i
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NOTES & QUERIES
Why am I always tired on the sofa, but wide awake once I go to bed? Because whatever you were doing on the sofa wasn’t tiring enough. Cathy Montague Shaftesbury, Dorset, UK • I find that the refreshing taste of toothpaste, combined with the glaring b
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Country Diary
TEBAY Cumbria, England The wind drops about 6pm and we feel the full force of the sun on the clipping trailer. We had started gathering the sheep at 9am, and ha d been clipping ever since. My job is to move the sheep through a series of pens and up a

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