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Why the Facebook boycott needs more support

July 1 is not a date Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is likely to forget anytime soon. Some of the most iconic and biggest spending brands in American life — including Coca-Cola,

03 Jul 2020

India’s social media habits caught in a clash between giants

About a year ago, Sangita Gaikwad’s teenage daughter Mona introduced her to TikTok. Like many first-time users of the quirky video-sharing app, Gaikwad, a homemaker in a farming village in western India, was baffled.

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Hong Kong could be the defining struggle in a new Cold War

The question can no longer be ducked: is Xi Jinping’s persecution of China’s ethnic minorities a genocide in the making?

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Trump’s racism goes beyond racial division

President Trump is making plain the degree to which the country remains divided by the American Civil War. His threat to veto the $718bn Defence Bill if it renames military bases called after Confederate generals harks back to 1861. His stand highlights the bizarre way that the US military has named its biggest bases, like Fort Bragg in North Carolina and Fort Hood in Texas, after Confederate generals like Braxton Bragg and John Hood who fought a war to destroy the US.

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Heading into a climate disaster, despite warnings

Imagine you were a journalist covering last year’s report by the WHO that warned about the shocking consequences of a coronavirus hitting humanity, but you knew nobody would pay any attention?

03 Jul 2020

Once the bastion of freedom in the region, Hong Kong now is being turned into a Beijing of the south

The reports out of Hong Kong are desperate. Since the passage of the National Security Law on Tuesday, people have been arrested for protesting, scores have left social media, chat histories have been deleted,

03 Jul 2020

COVID-19 to undo decades of progress on child labour

The boys struck out from their village in Pakistan’s rugged tribal belt and came to this frontier city to work at Maula Khan’s drink stand, a wooden cart shaded by an umbrella on a road bustling with migrants, war refugees and swerving rickshaws.

03 Jul 2020

Biden steps up attack as Trump falters and Covid rages

As a resurgent coronavirus rips through America, tearing especially into states that voted for Donald Trump in 2016, rival Joe Biden is stepping up attacks on his handling of the crisis as polls show the president’s already weak support waning.

02 Jul 2020

While July the Fourth commemorates the nation’s independence, it isn’t a happy day for all Americans

July the Fourth is coming up at the end of the week. How will you celebrate our nation’s independence? President Donald Trump, a traditionalist, is planning to observe a fireworks display at one of our national monuments

02 Jul 2020