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London, UK
Reuters
On the day Britain was supposed to have left the European Union, voters instead faced the start of an election campaign, with opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn pledging to overthrow a "rigged system" he said was run by billionaires and tax dodgers.
After failing to
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This Sunday (3rd November) marks exactly one year until the 2020 US presidential election.
And Christian leaders across theological and political divides are kicking off an initiative called “Golden Rule 2020: A Call for Dignity and Respect in Politics,” hoping the next 365 days
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- MEGAN ROWLING
Barcelona, Spain
Thomson Reuters Foundation
A surprise decision by Chile, rocked by violent unrest, to withdraw as host of December's UN climate conference risks throwing international efforts to ramp up action on global warming off course, environmentalists and rights activists fear.
They urged quick efforts to reorganise the
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- MELANIE BURTON
Melbourne, Australia
Reuters
An inquiry into Australia's providers of care for the elderly has found they fail to adequately look after the country's old and vulnerable citizens, in a scathing assessment of the industry.
The public investigation into mistreatment of the elderly in Australia's $A20 billion aged-care industry
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A prominent Southern Baptist church in south-west Florida has acknowledged that “racial prejudice” was a factor in its congregation’s decision not to appoint a black senior pastor candidate.
Pastor Marcus Hayes, a leader of Biltmore Church in Asheville, North Carolina, received 81 per cent of the vote
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Dhaka, Bangladesh
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Traumatised Bangladeshi women who return home after being tortured and abused working in the Middle East rarely get justice because brokers intimidate them and they cannot afford legal aid, a rights group said on Wednesday.
In interviews with 110 returnees, 86 per cent
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Washington, DC
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The United States could fight human trafficking effectively with more refined measuring tools which could distinguish young victims from old, or those trapped in domestic jobs from forced farm work, its top anti-trafficking official said on Tuesday.
Ambassador-at-Large John Richmond, speaking after
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- ALEJANDRA MOLINA
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- ROLI SRIVASTAVA
Mumbai, India
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Facebook is failing to rein in a "tsunami" of hate posts inflaming ethnic tensions in India's Assam state, campaign group Avaaz said on Wednesday, with content about "criminals", "rapists", "terrorists" and "dogs" shared almost 100,000 times.
Avaaz said the dehumanising language - often
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- COLIN PACKHAM
Sydney, Australia
Reuters
Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne said Canberra will hold China to account on issues such as human rights, insisting that staying quiet on sensitive issues is not in Australia's national interests.
Relations between Canberra and its most important trading partner have deteriorated in recent years
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- ROSA FURNEAUX
London, UK
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Expanding the planet's protected natural areas to safeguard vanishing forests and other ecosystems, and the species they protect, is unlikely to be effective on its own as human encroachment into reserves grows, scientists warned Tuesday.
A study by Cambridge University researchers, which looked
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- AMBER MILNE
London, UK
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Small children dressed as fairies on your doorstep may be cute while teenagers in zombie masks can be less appealing, but what rights do you have to say who knocks on your door at Halloween?
A growing number of Britons who dread the
