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5 days ago | context.news | Nazih Osseiran

What’s the context? USAID cuts may push desperate Syrian refugees into further debt, prostitution to survive, UN warns. Aid agencies forced to cut cash transfersAssistance reaching fraction of targeted recipientsRefugees taking on debt to feed familiesBEIRUT - Amal al-Merhi's twin 10-month-old daughters often go without milk or diapers. She feeds them a mix of cornstarch and water because milk is too expensive. Instead of diapers, Merhi ties plastic bags around her babies' waists.

5 days ago | context.news | Adam Smith

What’s the context? Ocean mineral hunt sparks legal chaos and threatens unknown species. Deep-sea mining poses risk of ecological collapseCompanies exploit legal loopholes offshoreGlobal competition rises over seabed controlLONDON - A Canadian mining company has been boosted by U.S. President Donald Trump in its push to exploit the ocean floor for minerals such as lithium that are critical to the world's clean energy transition.

1 week ago | context.news | Bhasker Tripathi

What’s the context? Can a system based on market trading help India beat back air pollution, one of its most pressing health issues?

1 week ago | context.news | Mariejo Ramos

A doctor puts on personal protective equipment in the Emergency Room of East Avenue Medical Center, in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, June 26, 2020. REUTERS/Eloisa LopezWhat’s the context? A proposed law in the Philippines would grant health decision rights to LGBTQ+ couples.

1 week ago | context.news | Tahmid Zami

Amirul Rajiv and Naim Ul Hasan, two coordinators of Bangladesh Tree Protection Movement, pose before the makeshift tent where they have been staging a sit-in for more than four months, Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 26, 2025. Md. Tahmid Zami/ Thomson Reuters FoundationWhat’s the context? In the fast-growing Bangladesh capital, sun-scorched activists demand protection for city's last green oases.