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Russia has consolidated recent battlefield gains in the east of Ukraine, and is attempting to break through Ukrainian defensive lines before a long-awaited package of US military assistance arrives at the frontline....

Fears Israel is influencing location of dock away from the north, where famine threat is most severe. A giant floating dock is nearing completion in the eastern Mediterranean from where it will be pushed towards the Gaza shore, but there is growing uncertainty over how useful the US project will be in containing a famine....

The Conservative MP under fire for his ancestors’ role in Caribbean slavery is in line for a multimillion-pound payout from the Barbados government....

A new analysis by Consumer Reports shows that pesticides have contaminated the US fruit and vegetable supply – even some organics...

Providers are optimistic for a different future for abortion in the state even as Republicans flounder in their response...

Authorities continuing ‘intimidation’ including separating children from their parents, despite pledge to end collective punishment...

With efforts to resuscitate Neopets ramping up, monthly users have nearly tripled to 300,000 in the past six months, and the company is on track to be profitable by the end of 2024, [current Neopets Team CEO] Law said....

Australian limits on acceptable levels of these toxic chemicals in drinking water ‘orders of magnitude’ higher than in US...

Global concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide climbed to unseen levels in 2023, underlining climate crisis...

Despite major progress in Brazil and Colombia, deforestation led by farming still cleared an area nearly equal to Switzerland...

Third attack on Kerch bridge between Russia and occupied Crimea ‘inevitable’, say Ukraine’s military intelligence...

RCEM calculates 268 people are likely to have died each week in 2023 while waiting up to 12 hours for a bed...

While the world’s attention is on Gaza, life for Palestinians in the West Bank is also growing increasingly precarious. There has been a surge in settler violence and a spike in unlawful lethal force from Israeli forces....

Seventeen students and a woman freed after operation in north-west of country...

Several McGill University students have spent more than three weeks demanding it divest $20m from various companies

Russia’s security services appear to link attack to Ukraine despite IS claiming responsibility...

A delegation of American and British doctors is in Washington DC to tell the Biden administration the Israeli military is systematically destroying Gaza’s health infrastructure in order to drive Palestinians out of their homes....

Almost all countries failing to meet mark for PM2.5, tiny particles expelled by vehicles and industry that can cause health problems...

Co-founder of Autonomy charged with 17 counts of wire fraud, securities fraud and conspiracy in 2011 sale of company to HP...