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Basketball star Brittney Griner calls on US president to do all he can to secure her release from Russian jail.US basketball star Brittney Griner has appealed to President Joe Biden to do all he can to secure her release from jail in…

From: Inside StoryDutch farmers say plans by the government to reduce nitrogen emissions will harm their livelihoods.Farmers in the Netherlands are blocking roads, setting fire to haystacks and even driving tractors through the streets…

Summer 2022 risks being a ‘perfect storm for glaciers’ due to soaring temperatures and a lack of winter snow, an expert warns.Glaciers in Europe’s Alps are becoming more unstable and dangerous as rising temperatures linked to climate…

The European Union will set up a reconstruction platform to coordinate the rebuilding of Ukraine after its war with Russia, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said. The platform will be used to map investment needs,…

There is a cost of living crisis in the United Kingdom. Soaring inflation is causing real incomes to fall; companies are using inflation as a pretext to price-gouge and reap handsome profits, which in turn contribute to further…

Many governments around the world are not enthusiastic about human rights laws. This is because human rights laws mean that there will then be certain things those governments cannot do to the people they govern, at least without…

Macron reshuffles his government after his ruling alliance failed to win a parliamentary majority last month.French President Emmanuel Macron has reshuffled his government after his centrist ruling alliance failed to win a parliamentary…

Kyiv, Ukraine – It wasn’t a knock, it was loud banging – at about 7:30 on a recent Saturday morning. Taras opened the door of his two-bedroom apartment in Kreminna, a town in Ukraine’s southeastern Luhansk region that was taken over by…

The government of war-ravaged Ukraine is due to outline for the first time its priorities for the country’s reconstruction following Russia’s invasion, during a conference in Switzerland. The two-day event in the southern city of Lugano…

James Barnor, the 93-year-old Ghanaian photo master, has shot against the shifting tectonic plates of Africa’s colonial liberation and Britain’s Swinging Sixties and Windrush generation: political, sports and media personalities; fashion…