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Cookstoves: Is the multibillion dollar carbon offset market flawed?
If you’ve booked a flight recently, you might have been offered the chance to cancel out your journey’s carbon emissions, just by clicking a box.
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FactCheck: what is the Rwanda bill and why is it still controversial?
What is the Rwanda bill and why is it controversial? FactCheck takes a look.
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Top civil servant summoned before MPs to explain government’s Rwanda spending
The top civil servant at the Home Office has been summoned before MPs on Monday – to explain the full costs of the government’s scheme to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.
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Domestic abuse victims say police not doing enough to protect them
2.5 million adults, most of them women, are affected by domestic abuse every year. It’s linked to one-in-five murders or manslaughter cases.
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OpenAI: Majority of employees threaten to resign unless former chief executive Sam Altman reinstated
Staff at OpenAI – the company behind the artificial intelligence software ChatGPT – have threatened to resign en masse unless former boss Sam Altman is reinstated.
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Co-creator of Israeli action series Fauda on writing about conflict, and storylines coming true
Fauda – the Hebrew and Arabic word for chaos – is a hit Netflix drama series based around a group of undercover Israeli agents – which has been hailed for featuring both Palestinians and Israelis as human beings caught up in conflict.
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Israel-Gaza: how death and suffering have affected families on either side
The brutal 7th October attack by Hamas here in Israel and the subsequent onslaught on Gaza by Israeli forces, have shattered families on both sides.
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Exclusive: hundreds of UK police officers suspended for sexual offence allegations
We can reveal that hundreds of police officers have been suspended by UK police forces because of allegations of sexual offences.
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How an IKEA became one of the world’s biggest clubs
More than 30 per cent of UK clubs have closed since the pandemic, who knew a saviour of the club scene could lie in a former soft furnishings site.The IKEA in Tottenham (North London) has gone from DIY haven to dancefloor, and with a 15,000 person capacity DRUMSHEDS is now one of the UKs biggest cultural spaces.
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Student poverty: Quarter of UK universities run food banks
For students, struggling to make ends meet often comes with the territory – but while the cost of living has soared over the last year, maintenance loans have not.
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Sewage dumping: Government may have broken law
The environment watchdog says the Government may have broken the law over sewage dumping in England. Under the current rules, water companies are only supposed to discharge raw sewage under exceptional circumstances, like unusually heavy rain.
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Cancer patients struggling to die with dignity in Malawi
A topic we do not often like to talk about: dying.
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Would new North Sea oil and gas make Britain more energy independent?
The government will grant hundreds of new licences to extract oil and gas from the North Sea, Rishi Sunak said on Monday. The initial decision was announced last year, but Mr Sunak reiterated the plan this week alongside “millions of pounds” for so-called “carbon capture and storage” technology — which the government says would help reduce…
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FactCheck: were the Greek wildfires caused by climate change?
This summer has already been marked as another year with record-breaking heat right across the globe, from China to North Africa and North America to Europe. In the past week at least 34 people died from spreading wildfires in Algeria, while in the Greek island of Rhodes thousands were evacuated due to wildfires following extreme…
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FactCheck: how many UK doctors are going abroad and how does pay compare?
How many doctors are actually leaving the UK to work elsewhere – and how does the pay compare? FactCheck takes a look.