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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Rajeev Syal |Garry Blight |Paul Scruton |Lucy Swan |Harvey Symons
England in the 1840s was a place of dizzying industry, rapid urbanisation and technological progress. Among the proliferation of inventions, a new type of building was unveiled to the world. A prison, K-shaped with long corridors made of sure, thick walls, and small windows in cold, solitary cells. The design of Pentonville was heralded by the fashionable print media of the day.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Shaun Walker |Manisha Ganguly |Artem Mazhulin |Pjotr Sauer |Lucy Swan
Some weeks after being detained as she attempted to leave a Russian-occupied part of Ukraine in January 2023, Yelyzaveta Shylykwas given a polygraph test. As her interrogators attached the lie detector’s wires to her, they calmly issued a threat about what would happen if she failed the test: “You’ll go to a place where you’ll regret being born.”That place, she would later find out, had a name: Sizo number 2, a pre-trial detention centre in the southern Russian city of Taganrog.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Jonathan Watts |Chris Watson |Lucy Swan
Brazil is the biggest exporter of beef in the world, and more than 40% of its vast 240m-cattle herd is raised in the Amazon region. As a result, swathes of the nature-rich rainforest are being cleared and burned to create pasture. This is pushing Amazon destruction close to a point of no return, prompting environmentalists and consumer groups to demand deforestation-free meat products.
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3 weeks ago | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Jonathan Watts |Naira Hofmeister |Daniel Camargos |Paul Scruton |Lucy Swan
The world’s largest meat company, JBS, looks set to break its Amazon rainforest protection promises again, according to frontline workers. Beef production is the primary driver of deforestation, as trees are cleared to raise cattle, and scientists warn this is pushing the Amazon close to a tipping point that would accelerate its shift from a carbon sink into a carbon emitter.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Jonathan Watts |Lucy Swan |Harvey Symons
Yellowstone in Montana may have the most romanticised cowboy culture in the world thanks to the TV drama series of the same name starring Kevin Costner. But the true home of the 21st-century cowboy is about 7,500 miles south, in what used to be the Amazon rainforest of Brazil, where the reality of raising cattle and producing beef is better characterised by depression, market pressure and vexed efforts to prevent the destruction of the land and its people.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Jonathan Watts |Lucy Swan |Paul Scruton
The world’s largest meat company, JBS, looks set to break its Amazon rainforest protection promises again, according to frontline workers. Beef production is the primary driver of deforestation, as trees are cleared to raise cattle, and scientists warn this is pushing the Amazon close to a tipping point that would accelerate its shift from a carbon sink into a carbon emitter.
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3 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Jonathan Watts |Naira Hofmeister |Daniel Camargos |Lucy Jordan |Paul Scruton |Lucy Swan
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Lauren Aratani |Lucy Swan |Ana Lucía González Paz |Aliya Uteuova
The US president’s announcement has caused market chaos and threatens a trade war and US recession
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Richard Partington |Lucy Swan
Donald Trump is sending shock waves through the global economy by waging trade wars with the US’s traditional allies and enemies alike. The president is using tariffs – border taxes levied on imports – to tackle what he sees as “unfair” trading practices by US trading partners. The aim is to promote US manufacturing by making foreign imports more expensive; to raise revenue, and to use tariffs as a bargaining chip with trading partners.
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Henry Dyer |Lucy Swan |Harvey Symons
Labour promised in its manifesto to downsize the House of Lords, which has ballooned over the past two decades. The government has already put forward legislation to remove hereditary peers, which is making its way through parliament. But a manifesto proposal for a mandatory retirement age of 80 now appears in doubt. Combined, these two measures would have halved the size of the upper house.
