Laws that have driven smoking out of offices, restaurants, public transport and other public spaces have reduced exposure to second-hand smoke, but a global study suggests the problem remains far from resolved.
Delegates at a United Nations meeting hosted by UNESCO in Paris have released the world’s first global recommendations aimed at safeguarding mental privacy and user rights in brain-interface technologies. The guidelines emerge
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In the sugarcane fields of El Salvador, men like Oscar rise before dawn to swing machetes under an unforgiving sun. For decades, this brutal labour has quietly claimed lives, not with accidents
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In Jakarta’s Jatinegara market, cages are stacked three metres high, holding bats, raccoon dogs, monkeys, and birds — all crammed together and sold as pets or food. The air is thick with
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Temasek Holdings, Singapore’s state-owned investment giant, is significantly scaling back its exposure to early-stage companies following a series of high-profile investment setbacks and tighter global financial conditions, sources familiar with the matter
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As NATO’s next summit looms – against the backdrop of an escalating proxy war in Ukraine and a genocidal horror in Gaza – the sane and moral world must roar in defiance,
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On 12 May 2025, Abdul Ghani al-Kikli, known to everyone in Libya as Ghnewa al-Kikli, was killed during a meeting inside a militia facility run by the 444th Combat Brigade in Tripoli. Ghnewa, as
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo A grave public health crisis is unfolding in Sri Lanka as the Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) has released a damning report exposing dozens of widely-used beauty and
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The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.– Milan Kundera In an age where culture is the primary battlefield, authoritarianism thrives on ignorance, historical amnesia and the
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Cyberbullying can trigger symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in teens and should be classified as an “adverse childhood experience” (ACE), according to a new study published in BMC Public Health. The
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Violence against women in Afghanistan has intensified under Taliban rule, with numerous reports detailing systemic abuses and gender-based persecution. The Taliban have institutionalized gender-based discrimination through a series of decrees that severely
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