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In data: Which countries fund global aid and how much do they pay?

1 day ago | context.news | Emma Batha

What’s the context? Contributions topped $212 billion in 2024, but are set to plummet as Trump takes an axe to the U.S. aid budget. LONDON - International aid fell in 2024 for the first time in six years, and is set to plunge further this year after U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a sweeping freeze on foreign aid, and many other key donors announced cuts.
How Trump surveillance tech can harm U.S. democracy

1 week ago | context.news | Diana Baptista

Security cameras monitor during a pro-Palestinian protest outside Columbia University, in New York City, U.S., September 03, 2024. REUTERS/Adam GrayWhat’s the context?
What does UK ruling on definition of woman mean for trans rights?

1 week ago | context.news | Lucy Middleton

What’s the context? Britain's top court says the Equality Act's definition of a woman is based on biological sex, sparking confusion over trans rights. LONDON - Britain's top court ruled on Wednesday that the 2010 Equality Act's definition of a woman is based on biological sex and does not include transgender people with gender recognition certificates.
Fake news and dirty politics flood Philippine social media

1 week ago | context.news | Mariejo Ramos

Supporters of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte hold a banner during a rally to celebrate his 80th birthday, as he remains in ICC custody over war crimes allegations, in front of Quiapo Church in Manila, Philippines, March 28, 2025. REUTERS/Noel CelisWhat’s the context? Fact checkers fail to contain army of trolls, copycat accounts and fake social media ahead of Philippines election.
Trump logging order sparks fears for US Southeast forests

1 week ago | context.news | Carey L. Biron

A worker unloads logs at the Murray Brothers Lumber Company in Madawaska, Ontario, Canada, July 4, 2018. REUTERS/Chris WattieWhat’s the context? Effort to boost US national timber production prompts concerns over access to public lands, wildfires and local economies.
Camped out with Brazil's protesting Indigenous

1 week ago | context.news | André Cabette Fábio

What’s the context? In their largest annual gathering in Brasilia, the Indigenous face police gas to march on Congress for their rights. BRASILIA - Under a blue April sky in Brasilia, the skyline is cut by sculptural, air-conditioned modernist buildings. The structures are surrounded by parking lots and curving, broad avenues with concrete sidewalks. Brasilia was purposely built here, a modernist push by governments in the 1950s and 1960s largely to help occupy the country's vast interior.
Brazil's Indigenous artists use film making to fight for rights

1 week ago | context.news | André Cabette Fábio

An indigenous man from the Pataxo indigenous people attends the Terra Livre (Free Land) protest camp to demand the demarcation of land and to defend cultural rights, in Brasilia, Brazil April 8, 2025. REUTERS/Ueslei MarcelinoWhat’s the context? Brazil's Indigenous movement use film and social media to promote land rights and promote culture at rally event.
Inside Trump's $6mn deportee deal with El Salvador mega-prison

1 week ago | context.news | Nelson Renteria

What’s the context? The US has sent hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador's CECOT prison in a controversial deal blasted by lawyers and rights groups.
U.S renters fear higher rent, eviction over energy efficient homes

2 weeks ago | context.news | Carey L. Biron

Workers lift a solar panel onto a roof during a residential solar installation in Scripps Ranch, San Diego, California, U.S. October 14, 2016. REUTERS/Mike BlakeWhat’s the context? Federal money, local mandates on building decarbonization coming online amid affordable housing crisis.
Inside the Arctic vault where data lasts ‘forever’

2 weeks ago | context.news | Albert Han |Fintan McDonnell

Thousands of years from now, future civilisations visiting the Arctic island of Svalbard will stumble upon a treasure trove of data from our age: software from tech companies, documents from the Vatican Museum, the recipe for MacDonalds’ burgers. At least, that’s what the Arctic World Archive is counting on.