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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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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 |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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Feb 11, 2025 | 
msn.com | Lucy Swan |Ashley Kirk |Paul Scruton |Harvey Symons |Finbarr Sheehy
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Feb 11, 2025 | 
msn.com | Lucy Swan |Ashley Kirk |Paul Scruton |Harvey Symons |Finbarr Sheehy
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Feb 11, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Lucy Swan |Ashley Kirk |Paul Scruton |Harvey Symons |Finbarr Sheehy
The US president, Donald Trump, has put global leaders ill at ease with his threat of tariffs. After announcing and then delaying tariffs on Canada and Mexico, hitting Chinese goods with an additional 10% tariff and also threatening the European Union, countries and markets are concerned about where the US president will go next. Trump’s policies come at a time when the US operates a large negative trade balance with the rest of the world.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
msn.com | Paul Scruton |Finbarr Sheehy |Laure Boulinier
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Paul Scruton |Finbarr Sheehy |Laure Boulinier
What happened? An American Airlines jet with 60 passengers and four crew members onboard collided with an army helicopter carrying three soldiers while landing at Reagan National airport in Washington DC on Wednesday evening. DC plane crash mapFootage from a security camera at the airport shows the moment of the collision. Footage of the collision at Ronald Reagan Washington Airport. Both aircraft fell into the Potomac River. Emergency responders said they did not believe there were any survivors.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Emma Graham-Harrison |Paul Scruton |Laure Boulinier
Israel’s war in Gaza has killed tens of thousands of people and laid waste large swathes of the territory. Schools and hospitals have been destroyed, and aid flows into the territory have fallen sharply. As Israel and Hamas reach a deal to pause the war for an initial six weeks, here is a visual assessment of the toll so far on the Palestinian people and the infrastructure they rely on.
