A bus carrying British nationals from the city of Wuhan in China, leaves at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire.
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It is now legal in England to isolate people against their wishes to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
The government in Russia has resigned, and a new Prime Minister (Mikhail Mishustin) appointed.
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Putin’s proposed changes to the constitution appear to be limiting the power of the presidency. But his sights are set beyond 2024 when he’ll no longer be president.
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The voices of young victims in Haiti can now be heard for the first time thanks to a groundbreaking new research project.
Farming emits greenhouse gases, but the land can also store them.
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The world has no hope of reaching the goals of the Paris Agreement without seriously reducing emissions from agriculture, forestry and land clearing.
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With her writing, and her work as a publisher, Morrison brought the African-American experience to the fore in the US and around the world.
One of the Klasies River spinning discs and the replica built for the recording studio.
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Working with bone artefacts from archaeological sites in South Africa’s southern Cape region, we’ve been able to show that some implements might have been used for sound production in the past.
Average global temperature from 2013 to 2017, as compared to 1951–1980 baseline.
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Already heat-stressed countries will see the largest absolute increases in humid-heat and have the least ability to adapt.
The drug is set to improve HIV treatment.
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The study confirms that dolutegravir is an effective and well-tolerated ARV.
A Rohingya refugee girl sells vegetables in Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh. Access to education is extremely limited in the camps, and most children — particularly girls — receive little to no formal education, Aug. 28, 2018.
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An estimated 500,000 Rohingya children, refugees from Myanmar, are growing up in Bangladesh in overcrowded camps with no access to formal education.
Johnny Clegg in action, telling stories and making music.
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Johnny Clegg was a prophet, even if the ideal future he prophesied has not yet come to pass.
Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau on March 14, 2018. The same Russian online troll farm that meddled in the American presidential election has also taken swipes at Canadian targets.
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An examination of the Twitter activity after the Québec mosque murders reveal that the majority showed sympathy towards the victims, but Russian trolls worked to spread antagonism and fake news.
A journalist at work with his camera.
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The state in Ghana still justifies taking steps that amount to suppression of the media.
Pork barrel politics?
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Parliamentarians and party members have held their noses and voted in a man deeply unsuited to lead. Now the British public must live with their choice.
Senegalese women cast their ballots in the presidential elections in February.
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Africa’s democracies have grown stronger during a period in which the world is backsliding on democracy.
Senegal’s singer Ismael Lo performs during the second Pan-African Cultural Festival (PANAF) in Algeria in 2009.
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Pan-African festival marked the emergence of a post-imperial world
Health officer on the front-line in the DRC.
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The Ebola outbreak in the DRC has been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. What does this mean for the outbreak response?
Former South African President Jacob Zuma at the Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture.
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Trump and Zuma seek to sell explanations of their misfortunes to the socially insecure and economically vulnerable. To an alarming extent they succeed.
The IMF headquarters in Washington DC.
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The IMF has increasingly turned its focus to growing inequality worldwide. Ironically, research shows that policy reforms it mandated exacerbated income inequalities.
Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo attends a confirmation of charges hearing at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
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African leaders who have sought ICC involvement have all seen the court as being beneficial to the survival of their governments.
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The fossil fuel industry depends on massive government support, which makes the public foot the bill for a harmful and uncompetitive industry.