Starbucks is throwing away a king’s feast of unsold food every night, even after the company promised it would stop doing so by 2020. The…
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I nearly died but was still presented with a £93,000 bill for my treatment
When I woke up, I didn’t know where I was. I was surrounded by tubes, unfamiliar smells and people I didn’t know. My memory was…
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Brexit deal still possible, says Varadkar
Leo Varadkar has said he believes a Brexit deal is still possible, but that the PM’s current proposals do not “form the basis for deeper…
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Is the US still Asia’s only military superpower?
US pre-eminence in the Pacific is no more. For a long time experts have been speaking about China’s rapid military modernisation referring to it as…
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The genocide orphans still searching for their names
A quarter of a century after the Rwandan genocide, some orphans are still desperately searching for any clues about their lost pasts. Oswald knows nothing…
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Europe may still REJECT Brexit extension despite efforts of Remainers
Europe may still REJECT Britain appealing for a new Brexit extension despite efforts of Remainers to force Boris Johnson to ask for one – because…
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‘We embraced… but I’d still kill him’
A year ago, during an unprecedented ceasefire, Afghan forces and the Taliban put down their weapons to celebrate the Muslim festival of Eid. As talks…
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Shoppers still duped with supermarket dodgy deals, watchdog claims
Shoppers are being misled with “dodgy discounts” and special offers in some supermarkets, an investigation has found. Consumer group Which? analysed 459 “offers” to find…
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Is the US still Asia’s only military superpower?
US pre-eminence in the Pacific is no more. For a long time experts have been speaking about China’s rapid military modernisation referring to it as…
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Mexico still deadly turf for journalists
Mexico has been described as the deadliest country for reporters outside of a war zone. Since 2000, at least 144 journalists have been murdered according…
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Trump talks tough – but still does not think guns are the issue
Donald Trump blamed mental illness, social media and video games for America’s “contagion” of gun violence. Guns though, in his mind, are not to blame.…
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Are Kenyans still scandalised by scandals?
In our series of letters from African writers, Kenyan journalist Waihiga Mwaura asks whether Kenyans have lost hope of tackling the scourge of corruption in…
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How many countries still have the death penalty?
Claim: Some 170 States have either abolished the death penalty or introduced a moratorium on its use. Verdict: According to Amnesty International in 2017, 142…
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A city still in ruins, two years after IS
It has been almost two years since the jihadist group Islamic State was defeated in Iraq’s second city of Mosul following a battle that left…
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