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Peace campaigner’s car struck by stray bullet while passing airport, security officials say -
Key manifesto pledge includes ending investment in fossil fuel projects and supporting ‘green transitions’ abroad
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Investigation finds thousands of children are scavenging in deadly conditions for mineral widely used by car and electronics firms -
Contributions from European countries drop as progress on 0.7% target goes into reverse
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Exclusive: in majority of cases, authorities do not perform postmortems, despite recommendations from regime’s lawyers -
As construction boom hits its peak ahead of Fifa World Cup, Guardian analysis shows workers toiling in potentially fatal temperatures
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Author highlights evidence suggesting that ‘orphanage tourism’ drives families apart and makes children vulnerable to abuse -
Labour peer heads push to ‘save family reunion’ amid fears Brexit will stop young refugees from joining relatives in UK -
In a deeply conservative society ravaged by years of war, Afghan women still want to be free to wear clothes with style
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Our two-year study shows the lake has been stable since the 1990s. Costly ‘solutions’ shift focus from the causes of the region’s crisis -
Pressure is increasing in the west African country – yet to recover from 14 years of civil conflict – for a war crimes tribunal to bring ‘closure’ -
On Karachi’s streets, a team is leading the way where police have failed in investigating disappearances
We hear from residents of Africa's biggest slum, Kibera, about their struggles and aspirations, busting the myths and stereotypes about being poor and powerless
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Family takes many shapes and guises – and in Africa’s largest slum the ties of love and blood are especially tested, cruelly sculpted by epidemics like HIV as well as strained by economic and climate crisesAll photographs by Kate Holt
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Europe is in talks with Myanmar to begin importing seafood. It cannot ignore the widespread slavery within the industry -
Most of the money earned by Cuban medics working in Qatar goes to their national government. But while some feel exploited, others tell a different story -
Photographer David Levene visited Malawi with Sarah Boseley, to document the impact of the tobacco industry on the wellbeing of the local farming communities whose livelihood depends on it. Human rights lawyers Leigh Day are working with Malawian translators and paralegals interviewing potential clients to join the watershed legal action against British American Tobacco -
Lawyers argue that while farming families toil over backbreaking work in desperate poverty, BAT is reaping the rewards
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Photographer David Levene visited Malawi with Sarah Boseley, to document the impact of the tobacco industry on the wellbeing of the local farming communities whose livelihood depends on it. Human rights lawyers Leigh Day are working with Malawian translators and paralegals interviewing potential clients to join the watershed legal action against British American Tobacco
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Government announces plans to relocate 20,000 people from islands of Lesbos, Chios and Samos by early 2020 -
Children bear the brunt as extremism and climate crisis drive almost 500,000 people from their homes -
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