A global chemical giant covered up its product’s links to Parkinson’s. Fault Lines investigates. For decades, one of the world’s largest pesticide manufacturers deployed the Big Tobacco playbook to keep its flagship product ubiquitous—despite the company’s own internal research showing that it harmed farmers. Today the pesticide, paraquat, is banned in 58 countries—but its use […]
Israel-Palestine live: Heavy rain worsens conditions for displaced Palestinians Middle East Eye Humanitarian crisis in Gaza worsens with displaced Palestinians threatened by hunger, disease CBS News Israel-Gaza latest news: Heavy rain adds to Gazans’ misery as Israeli bombardment continues BBC.com Palestinians ‘going hungry’ as Israel pounds Gaza Al Jazeera English ‘We have the right to live.’ Starvation, disease, and
UNRWA chief depicts Gaza’s plight – inhumane conditions, hunger, and people feeling betrayed by the world. For 74 years, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, UNRWA, has provided healthcare, education and social services to many. Yet, the war on Gaza has severely affected the UNRWA as Israeli air
Argentina devalued the peso by 54% and announced a swath of spending cuts as the first steps of President Javier Milei’s shock-therapy program, moves welcomed by the International Monetary Fund. The newly inaugurated administration weakened the official exchange rate to 800 pesos per dollar, Economy Minister Luis Caputo said in a televised address after the
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Sunak faces down Conservative Party rebels by winning a knife-edge vote on his latest plans to send refugees and migrants to Rwanda. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s emergency bill to revive his plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda has avoided defeat in parliament, surviving a rebellion by dozens of his own MPs that laid
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Israeli tanks and warplanes are carrying out new attacks on starving Palestinians in southern Gaza as aid flows are hampered by the intensity of the attacks, now in their third month. Hunger is worsening across the besieged enclave, with the United Nations saying half of Gaza’s population is starving. An elderly Palestinian, Tawfik Abu Breika,
The company says the move, planned since last year, is unrelated to boycott calls against it amid Israel’s war on Gaza. Sports brand Puma will stop sponsoring Israel’s national football team in 2024, according to a company spokesperson. The move was planned since last year and is not related to consumer boycott calls against Israel
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Explosives-packed vehicle is rammed into station used by army as a base in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as fighters open fire. Fighters have stormed a military post in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 23 people in a gun and suicide bomb attack, according to the Pakistani military. The incident took place on Tuesday in the town of
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Listen to article (2 minutes) TEL AVIV—Israeli officials are warning Hezbollah to pull back its forces on the Lebanese border and stop firing missiles at Israel to avert another war as fighting also rages in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military Monday said it shelled Lebanese territory after its air-defense system intercepted six projectiles launched
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Video circulating in Israeli media appears to show the surrender of some Hamas fighters. A video circulating in Israeli media appears to show the surrender of some Hamas fighters. But some critics have cast doubt on its authenticity and say it was likely staged. The footage began circulating as Hamas fighters continue to battle Israeli
