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An upturned rebel tank lay by the road, overlooking fields of wheat and barley. Dead bodies were slumped in bushes and on muddy highland trails. Dark grey stones and the branches of a eucalyptus tree concealed a hastily dug mass grave. Rebels from Ethiopia’s Tigray have taken their fight into...

An investigational antiviral pill reduced the chances that patients newly diagnosed with Covid-19 would be hospitalised by about 50 per cent, a finding that could give doctors a desperately needed new way to treat the sick, the drug maker Merck has announced. A five-day course of molnupiravir, developed by Merck...

Indigenous territories, long a bulwark against deforestation in the Amazon, are under increasing threat in Brazil, according to an analysis of 36 years’ worth of satellite imagery. The data show that illicit mining operations on Indigenous lands and in other areas formally protected by law have hit a record high...

As female researchers from Latin American countries (one of us now works in the United States, the other in Argentina), we’re used to career obstacles. These range from limited funding to language barriers and the ‘tax’, in terms of time and emotional energy, incurred when under-represented groups in science participate...

The American Cancer Society recognises the link between alcohol and breast cancer, and so does a surgeon general’s report on addiction. The alcohol industry doesn’t dispute it, either. “Many lifestyle choices carry potential risks and the consumption of alcohol is no exception,” a spokesperson for the Distilled Spirits Council wrote...

Imagine trying to tackle Covid-19 with no idea of where it was spreading or how quickly, the mortality risk or the efficacy of treatments and vaccines. That describes the first half of 2020. Countries published intermittent snapshots of the situation. The World Health Organization (WHO) published case numbers in PDFs....

A new global investigation exposing the offshore hideaways of some of the world’s most powerful personalities was launched this week after two years of discreet work by investigative journalists around the world. The project, known as Pandora Papers, is facilitated by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which obtained...

A damning report has found that the World Health Organization failed to prevent and tackle widespread sexual abuse during the Ebola response in Congo – a probe triggered by an investigation by The New Humanitarian and the Thomson Reuters Foundation has revealed. WHO staff knew of allegations in early May...