Hanoi brings back loudspeakers as old-school propaganda methods return to Vietnam
Speakers to be installed across capital for daily pronouncements as government’s plan labelled ‘archaic and redundant’
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Afghanistan: NGOs call for assets to be unfrozen to end ‘near universal poverty’
One year since the Taliban regained power, charities say urgent action needed to address economic crisis
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Government urged to classify Covid as an occupational disease
TUC calls on Department for Work and Pensions to make move to help workers access key benefits
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‘We must forget about divisions’: one woman’s journey home 75 years after India’s partition
Chance encounter on Facebook led Reena Varma, 90, to visit family home she was forced to abandon in 1947
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Police chief quit after abuse by British colonial troops in Kenya covered up
Documentary reveals how Britain was not only involved in rape and torture but tried to suppress evidence
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Gazprom has increased gas supply to Hungary, says official
Russian state-owned firm delivering more gas through TurkStream pipeline than ‘contractually obliged’
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EU border agency accused of exploiting interpreters ‘paid under €2.50 an hour’
Petition accuses Frontex of violating European standards by using contractor that offers low wages
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‘Finally we are together’: partition’s broken families reunite after seven decades
Social media is helping long-lost relatives discover each other after a lifetime separated by the India-Pakistan border
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Hypocrisy or a reason for hope? The Taliban who send their girls to school
The Afghan rulers’ ban on female schooling has provoked global anger, but opposition is also growing from within
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Viktor Orbán’s grip on Hungary’s courts threatens rule of law, warns judge
Csaba Vasvári’s claims of ‘overreach’ follow freeze on EU funds over concerns about judicial independence
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Vanuatu, one of the most climate-vulnerable countries, launches ambitious climate plan
The Pacific country has committed to 100% renewable energy in electricity generation by 2030
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Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 172 of the invasion
Volodymyr Zelenskiy warns Russian troops against shooting from nuclear plant; blasts heard in Melitopol; Ukraine claims to have shot down Russian fighter jet
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