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Global development

6 August 2024

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  • Protesters in Dhaka climb a public monument to the assassinated first premier of Bangladesh, the father of Sheikh Hasina as they celebrate the news of her resignation as prime minister.

    Bangladesh parliament dissolved a day after resignation of prime minister

    Move comes after longtime leader Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled country after weeks of deadly unrest
  • A poster of a veiled older Asian woman with holes in her face

    Sheikh Hasina: child of the revolution who eroded Bangladesh’s democracy

    The sudden downfall of the world’s longest-serving female leader has ended one of South Asia’s most enduring political dynasties. But will Hasina’s legacy be huge development gains or rights abuses and alleged killings?
  • A Pakistani woman holds a placard reading "there is no honour in killing" during a protest. Another sign says "no more honour killings"

    She wanted a divorce so her father hacked her legs with an axe: how Pakistan fails women

    Sobia Batool Shah is being protected in hospital after a mob of male relatives attacked her in a harrowing case that highlights Pakistan’s epidemic of gender-based violence

5 August 2024

  • A tiger seen through the rotting grille of its cage, Joya Grande, Honduras.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Narco folly: inside the crumbling Honduran zoo built by a drug cartel

    This collection of animals, many trafficked, was a status symbol and money-laundering scheme for the Cachiros syndicate. Now seized by the authorities, experts are attempting to improve conditions inside its crumbling cages
  • Devi Khadka, holding up her hand among a group of women in the documentary film Devi.

    Rights and freedom
    Rebel fighter, Maoist MP, rape survivor: the many lives of Devi Khadka

    After Nepal’s bitter conflict ended in 2006, Khadka thought she could make a difference in parliament. A new documentary tells of her disillusion with the healing process, and why she is passionate about seeking justice for the violated women without a voice
  • Phra Mahapranom Dhammalangkaro, the abbot, poses for a portrait at with The HIPPO project at Wat Chak Daeng on July 30, 2024 in Bangkok. The HIPPO project by Seven Clean Seas, in collaboration with Wat Chak Daeng temple, uses a solar-powered vessel to collect plastic waste from Bangkok's Chao Phraya River and recycles it to reduce environmental pollution. Phra Mahapranom Dhammalangkaro, the abbot, leads a project at Wat Chak Daeng that turns plastic waste into monk robes, upcycling around 40 tons of plastic since 2015 and serving as a model for environmental conservation. Photo by Lauren DeCicca for The Guardian

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    How a monk and a Hippo joined forces to tackle Bangkok’s plastic pollution

    The abbot of a temple in the Thai capital had already built up a recycling facility, but now he has a floating ally in his struggle to clean up the Chao Praya River

2 August 2024

  • A female African soloist sings in front of a symphony orchestra in a concert hall

    African classical music hits world stage as the Africa United Youth Orchestra plays Carnegie Hall

    The ensemble, made up of musicians from across Africa, will perform in public for only the second time as part of world orchestra week at the legendary New York venue
  • Closeup of a midge on a person’s hand

    Outbreak of Oropouche virus in Brazil should be a ‘wake-up call’, say experts

    The disease, spread by midges and mosquitoes, has been linked to two deaths as cases surge in previously unaffected areas

    • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
      The lawless mining gangs targeting the Amazon’s precious green energy minerals

    • UN calls for foreign security forces to be deployed faster to quash Haiti gang wars

    • Pain, organ damage, infertility: the neglected disease that leaves millions of women in agony

1 August 2024

  • Women and babies at the Zamzam displacement camp in North Darfur.

    Children ‘at death’s door’ as famine declared in Sudanese refugee camp

  • Large industrial buildings and car parks on a green plain

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Anger mounts over environmental cost of Google datacentre in Uruguay

  • A white man in a suit bnext to Brazil's flag gestures while speaking at a conference

    Opinion
    Brazil led the way. Now the UK should get behind the assault on hunger and poverty

    Kevin Watkins
  • A woman paints another woman's fingernails

    Rights and freedom
    ‘They can stone us and flog us – I will keep using makeup’: why women risk everything in Afghanistan’s secret salons

31 July 2024

  • Woman with a hearing aid

    Almost half of dementia cases could be prevented or delayed, study finds

  • An older African woman with cropped grey hair wearing a turquoise blouse with an intricately embroidered collar

    Nigerian singer, actor and activist Onyeka Onwenu dies aged 72

  • A family – two adults and five young children – stand by a tree with a shack behind them

    From Scotland to Malawi: climate survivors are rebuilding with world first loss and damage fund

  • AliNur Salaad

    Somalia arrests another journalist as press clampdown intensifies

30 July 2024

  • Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado speaks to press after voting during the presidential elections in Caracas, Venezuela

    Maduro’s exit inevitable, says Venezuela opposition leader, as election protests grow

    María Corina Machado says president should understand he lost vote, amid international doubts over victory claim
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