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Climate-focused think tank InfluenceMap has uncovered that industry influence appears to have led to the delay and dilution ...

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Children across the UK are used to sell drugs, and the state appears more interested in arresting them than helping ...

Donald Trump has gone fully in on Israel’s war aims. That decision may yet come back to hurt him – and Keir Starmer ...

Donald Trump’s decision to allow “two weeks” to decide whether the US will join in Israel’s assault on Iran may be an effort at conflict resolution via diplomacy, or may have more to do ...

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Women will no longer face prison for ending a pregnancy. There are two reasons why this reform was urgently needed ...