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President Biden has suspended oil and gas drilling leases in Alaska’s Arctic wildlife refuge, reversing a flagship Trump policy, while an environmental review is carried out.

US President Joe Biden has travelled to the city today to commemorate the deadly attack perpetrated by white residents in a black neighbourhood.

A hedge fund with a tiny stake in the massive oil giant that is ExxonMobil has pulled off a boardroom coup by persuading Exxon shareholders to vote to put two new directors on the board.

The final moments of George Floyd’s life were brutal, killed by a police officer as he pleaded for his life, calling out “I can’t breathe”. His murder exactly a year ago today shocked the world and sparked a global uprising of people demanding racial justice. Those calls grew into deafening cries for equal rights from…

The horror of this month’s bomb attack on a girls’ school in Kabul is still being felt across Afghanistan.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared he’s determined to press ahead with military operations in Gaza “until its aim is met”, hours after President Joe Biden said he expected a “significant de-escalation” in the conflict.

We spoke to Khaled Elgindy, an author on Palestinian-Israeli Affairs, who has participated in previous attempts at negotiations.

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Calls for defunding and reform of the police have echoed across America since the murder of George Floyd by a white police officer last summer. But what might that actually look like? As lawmakers attempt to construct legislation to bring about reform nationally, we have been to Camden in New Jersey, a city once riddled…

He’s exposed the inner workings of high finance, baseball and the 2016 presidential campaign – and now Michael Lewis, one of America’s most celebrated writers, has turned his attention to the pandemic.

In the US, President Biden has given his first speech to a joint session of Congress.

On the second day of a virtual international summit, Mr Biden urged world leaders to view tackling climate change as an “opportunity for economic prosperity”, ramping up investment in renewable energy and cleaner economies.

We spoke to author and playwright Bonnie Greer, who was born in the US but has lived in the UK for the past 35 years, and from the US, Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart.

George Floyd’s death has prompted a reckoning with racial injustice in countries far beyond the United States.

We spoke to Amadou’s mother, Kadiatou Diallo.