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Data privacy is a major concern but people seem willing to download the app.
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Having poor morals doesn’t mean that a young person is inherently bad.
National Guard on patrol after gang conflict in Comunidad del Naranjo, Guerrero, Mexico.
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Many governments can’t afford to offer the sort of economic stimulus we’ve seen in the west, and organised crime is only too happy to fill the gap.
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The psychology behind a sense of togetherness during the pandemic.
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COVID-19 is not a cause of domestic abuse and focusing on this event obscures the underlying causes, offering perpetrators excuses for their abusive behaviour.
High-quality reporting is in demand, but how is it going to be supported?
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Public service journalism is more vital now than ever and should be given charitable status.
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Donald Trump’s ‘rally round the flag’ effect was fleeting, and is unlikely to re-emerge.
Victoria station, where the incident took place in March.
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Even if someone declares they are infected before attacking, the legal issues are complex.
A woman identified as a Dutch national with her children in a camp in north-eastern Syria in February 2019.
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A group of Dutch families of foreign fighters detained in Syria are trying to get The Netherlands to repatriate them.
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Will people keep social distancing now that the lock down is eased? Our research shows that what matters is people’s own motivation, not the threat of fines.
Under scrutiny: health secretary, Matt Hancock, delivering testing figures on May 1.
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Public doubts over some government information have led to calls for more active factchecking of claims.
European institutions will spend billions without much input from citizens.
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Have European leaders learnt nothing from the backlash over their actions during the last global crisis?
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Europeans once looked across the Atlantic for leadership in times of global crisis. But those days are over.
Fortress Europe: Malta declared its harbours unsafe for migrants to disembark during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Migrants have been left to die in the Mediterranean as Italy and Malta declared their harbours ‘unsafe’ in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
Political polarisation remains clear in responses to COVID-19.
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A new survey shows 67% of Democrats report wearing face masks, compared to 55% of Republicans.
A French soldier during a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron to Operation Barkhane in Mali in 2017.
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It’s been 60 years since most of France’s former colonies in Africa gained independence. But France still maintains a significant military presence on the continent.
A security guard check temperatures in Beijing.
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From private security guards to health scanning, the private sector has been vital to China’s fight against the pandemic.
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Coronavirus has made it glaringly obvious how serious the problems with UK housing are.
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Lockdown requires that we all act as if we know nothing, even if we are world experts on disease transmission.
Boris Johnson has signalled that some lockdown measures will be eased on Monday,
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For the government a Sunday announcement has several advantages, many of them to do with the news agenda.
Scottish and Welsh 16 and 17-year-olds can vote while their peers across the border are still disenfranchised.
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There needs to be fair and equal voting rights for young people in England and Northern Ireland.
Homeless in locked down London.
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Coronavirus provides a chance to re-assess our values.
A vigil outside the offices of ABS-CBN after it was forced off air on May 5.
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ABS-CBN, the Philippines main broadcaster, was ordered off air on May 5, in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
Israeli families hold pictures of relatives killed in the Soviet Union struggle against the Nazis in WWII, Jerusalem, May 2015.
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There’s a widening split over rival interpretations of the end of the second world war and its aftermath.
Joy to the world: but especially for white British people, apparently.
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Just like now, Britain’s war effort depended on the sacrifice of migrants and minorities. But this was soon forgotten.