Dominic Raab says numbers depend on ‘the window’ of opportunity; Germany will keep up Kabul evacuations for as long as the US does, Angela Merkel saysUS special relationship still alive after Afghan evacuation, says RaabBiden rejects pleas to keep troo…
Afghan boy, 5, fell from Sheffield hotel on to car park roof, inquest told
Mohammed Munib Majeedi died last week after arriving from Afghanistan with his familyThe body of a five-year-old Afghan refugee who fell from a hotel in Sheffield was found on top of a neighbouring multistorey car park, an inquest has heard.Mohammed Mu…
Australia is ‘more and more isolated’ on climate, former EU trade commissioner says
Cecilia Malmström warned climate change is an urgent global crisis and Australia, as a big economy and big emitter, needs to do moreGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingThe former European Union trade commissioner, Cecilia Malmström, ha…
‘Don’t avert your eyes’: Afghan teachers urge world to defend girls’ education
Educators say they fear reversal of hard-won progress as aid workers call for Taliban’s desire for international legitimacy to be used as leverageAfghanistan’s only boarding school for girls has temporarily relocated to Rwanda, its co-founder has said,…
US intelligence study inconclusive on Covid origins, according to reports
Assessment unable to conclude whether virus came from animals or a Wuhan lab, according to US mediaCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA classified US intelligence report delivered to the White House was inconclusive on the orig…
Taiwan hits zero Covid cases for first time since outbreak in May
Acceleration of vaccine rollout and test-and-trace improvements credited for turnaroundCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageTaiwan has reported zero community cases of Covid-19 for the first time since its biggest outbreak began …
Is democracy getting in the way of saving the planet? | Kate Aronoff
Our climate is in crisis, but authoritarians and technocrats don’t have the answersWhat the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s report confirmed this month is that the stable climate many of us grew up with is gone and has been replaced by a fu…
Meat wars: why Biden wants to break up the powerful US beef industry
As the pandemic drives calls for a radical overhaul of the food system, can the president take on the meat giants?Both the planet and US politics have heated up in tandem over recent decades, but few sectors have stewed in controversy quite like Americ…
Oxygen firms accused of intimidating Mexican hospitals during pandemic
Hospitals received letters threatening large fines after they installed their own onsite O2 plants in response to shortagesIn March 2020, Benjamin Espinoza Zavala saw an entire floor of his small hospital in Guanajuato, central Mexico, converted into C…
Earthquake relief efforts under way in Haiti – in pictures
Shipments of aid from many countries have been arriving in the south-western Tiburon peninsula of Haiti, which was struck by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake on 14 August Continue reading…