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UK colonialist Rhodes has fallen in his home town
Economic impact of coronavirus zeroes in on Black LGBT+ Americans
Lebanese open their homes to families affected by Beirut blast
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Social innovation: Jobs
'Rely on God' - a prescription for India's poor in pandemic
Weather alerts at risk as Kenyan local radio struggles amid virus
As U.S. wrangles over aid, millions of renters get desperate
Singapore monitoring spate of suicides among migrant workers
Climate change efforts in Japan hindered by biased business lobby
Brazil court says BLM critic can remain in top Black culture job
Argentines battle poverty and hunger, with or without debt deal
Mexico power plant violated environmental law, documents show
Footballer Rashford stars in British Vogue's Black 'hope' issue
South Africans go online to document police brutality
Cameroon tomato farmers count losses to wild weather and lockdown
With a heavy hand, India rides out Kashmir's year of disquiet
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Growing calls to scrap 'racist' names for Australian landmarks
British music stars resurrect Rock Against Racism
Brazil's Amazon rainforest surge in July, worst in recent days
Hundreds protest after Black actor shot dead in Lisbon
British prison launches meal delivery service run by inmates
Solar beats salt, bringing clean water to coastal Kenyans
South Africa produces its first ventilators to fight COVID-19
For hard-hit Lebanese, Eid traditions are now just too costly
Job losses and floods spark fears of hard times in Bangladesh
Southeast Asia poverty to surge in 'socio-economic crisis': UN
Trump urges Democrats to help approve eviction moratorium
Coronavirus may cost Latin America and Caribbean a decade -ECLAC
Kenyan Unilever tea workers escalate fight for reparations to U.N.
Most polluted U.S. neighborhoods haven't changed in three decades
Lower-caste Indian villagers given cremation ground after funeral
US super-rich found failing in pledge to donate most of wealth
At big tech hearing, non-denials speak louder than words
Record number of Black women set to run for U.S. Congress
U.S. renters owe $21.5 billion in rent; no eviction relief offered
Latin America urged to boost green jobs for pandemic recovery
Zimbabwe agrees $3.5 bln compensation for white farmers
Democrat Biden promises economic policies to fight racial inequity
Providing women with contraception may save poor nations billions
UK running club eyes expansion as coronavirus boosts volunteering
Ethnic minorities hold less than 5% of Britain's top jobs
Anger in India after lower-caste woman taken off funeral pyre
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U.S. cities embrace people's budgets amid policing debate
HSBC aims to double number of senior Black staff by 2025- memo
India's tribal farmers tap solar irrigation to cut migration
For kitchen-less Hong Kongers, restaurant ban is a bitter pill
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Opinion

Bruno Sarda CDP

U.S. cities face a triple threat

Hurricanes, COVID-19 and extreme heat are hitting at once and stretching resources thin - but there are ideas on how to cope
Alex Lenferna 350.org

It's time to end the global south's indebted servitude

As the world’s finance ministers meet to discuss how to recover from COVID-19, cancelling the debt of poor nations is a start
Yuliya Panfil and Tim Robustelli

Hiding in plain sight: Housing insecurity in the US

Despite low eviction and foreclosure filings, surveys are sounding the alarm: a quarter of Americans can’t pay for housing
Habeeb Akande Rabaah Publishers

As a sex educator, I see how men need better models of consent

I’ve run workshops on intimacy and consent for men around the world, it’s clear that many young men have unrealistic ideas about sex and lack knowledge about how to talk about consent

In Depth

The big chill: How Africa is moving to battle 'zombie' appliances
Indigenous leaders fear Amazon soy port could be conduit for COVID-19
Warming climate and Arctic gas push threaten Russia's reindeer herders
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