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Missing from COP26: Lifestyle choices of middle-class and rich consumers (Homi Kharas, Brookings)

Negotiations at COP26 focused on green technology and finance. Governments pledged money, businesses committed to net-zero production, and ordinary citizens … did nothing! Individual...

After crackdown, Hong Kong’s low paid face hurdles to organising (Rachel Cheung, Al Jazeera)

When Foodpanda Hong Kong announced plans to reduce payments per order by another 2 Hong Kong dollars ($0.25) earlier this month, Ahmad and hundreds...

Belarus says more than 100 refugees flown home (Al Jazeera)

More than 100 refugees have been flown out of Belarus, with more people scheduled to depart, according to Belarusian authorities. The group of 118 people...

Nicaragua detains former OAS ambassador, critic of Ortega (Al Jazeera)

Nicaragua’s former ambassador to the Organization of American States – who has been critical of President Daniel Ortega – has been detained in Managua,...

US to release 50 million barrels of oil to ease energy costs (Al Jazeera)

United States President Joe Biden has ordered 50 million barrels of oil released from the strategic reserve to help bring down energy costs. The move on...

US warship sails through Taiwan Strait, first since Biden-Xi meet (Al Jazeera)

A US destroyer has sailed through the waterway separating Taiwan and China, the United States Navy said, the first such passage since leaders from...

Azerbaijan’s internally displaced long to return to regained land (Liz Cookman, Al Jazeera)

It has been three decades since Rasmiya Ahmadova last saw her home village in Kalbajar, a leafy district in western Azerbaijan scattered with fruit...

Dreaming of escape: The Pakistani women fleeing domestic violence (Shazia Khan, Al Jazeera)

When my mother was two years old, she was given as a “gift-child” to a wealthy widowed aunt who did not have any children...

Ethiopia’s PM Abiy Ahmed vows to lead army ‘from the battlefront’ (Al Jazeera)

Ethiopia’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said he will lead his country’s army “from the battlefront” starting on Tuesday, a dramatic...

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