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Chile election divides voters between protest and order

21 Nov 2021

Gram Slattery, Reuters For many Chileans, Plaza Baquedano, a broad rotary in central Santiago that for decades served as a centre of social protest, has become a powerful symbol of...

Drought forces Iraqi farmers to leave their land

14 Nov 2021

Iraqi wheat farmer Khamis Ahmad Abbas lost it all when his battle with drought forced him to abandon his land, pushing him into unemployment. Experts have warned that record...

‘I can’t live under them, I would rather be dead’

21 Aug 2021

Kim Sengupta, The Independent The woman looked around with an anguished cry, frightened, seeking familiar faces as she stumbled out of the crowd. She tried to speak but no words...

An apology to Aztecs 500 years too late

14 Aug 2021

Does an apology 500 years too late of any value? This is the question that arises as Mexico’s leftist president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador had apologised to the indigenous people...

Global accord can help stall virus impact

07 Aug 2021

Amid the gloom and doom triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, comes a sliver of sunlight. That is, if the UN head’s statement on the vaccines is anything to go by....

VIDEO: Orangutan wears woman’s sunglasses after they fall into zoo enclosure in Indonesia

04 Aug 2021

Syed Shayaan Bakht, Gulf Today A video of an orangutan sporting sunglasses is doing the rounds on social media platforms. The primate was seen trying on a woman’s pair of...

Mothers bore the brunt of pandemic pain, says IMF study

30 Apr 2021

A new IMF study confirms what many women already knew: mothers shouldered much of the pain and suffered an outsized economic impact from the COVID-19 pandemic. In "the world...

Taiwanese face water rationing due to drought

06 Apr 2021

Gulf Today Report Taiwan puts more than one million households and businesses in the central region on water rationing due to drought. The island is struggling with the worst...

Record dry November in Australia fuels deadly fires

05 Dec 2019

Australia recorded its lowest level of rainfall for the month of November, the country’s weather bureau said on Thursday, as an unrelenting drought fuels deadly bushfires. All of Australia received...

Nato summit must focus on the alliance’s future role

01 Dec 2019

Nick Witney, The Independent Next week, the Nato heads of state and government will gather in the UK for the organisation’s 70th anniversary. On past form, a festival of celebration...

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