Life on the line: Deadly risks for world's food delivery drivers [[link removed]]

From Mumbai, Tbilisi to Rio di Janeiro, we ask food couriers about the immense risks they face each day to deliver the food we want, when we want it.

Afghans 'marry off' baby girls for dowries as starvation looms [[link removed]]

Afghanistan's economic meltdown following the Taliban's takeover 100 days ago is pushing destitute families to marry off young daughters - and even baby girls, campaigners say

Can bamboo walls help Uganda hold back worsening floods? [[link removed]]

By slowing floodwater and stabilising riverbanks, bamboo walls could protect farmers from climate change-worsened floods – and earn them extra income

Lesbian and trans Spaniards celebrate IVF equality [[link removed]]

‘Unique’ legal change grants lesbians and transgender Spaniards equal rights to state-funded in-vitro fertilisation (IVF).

BRIT Awards to introduce gender-neutral categories at 2022 show [[link removed]]

The BRITs follow in the footsteps of other events that have removed gender classifications and from next year, performers will now be in the running for artist of the year or international artist of the year at the annual ceremony

Portugal's power production goes coal-free long before deadline [[link removed]]

Portugal is now the fourth EU country to become coal-free, a move that comes nine years before the country's targeted end of use of the fossil fuel

Indian farmers in no mood to forgive despite Modi's U-turn on reforms [[link removed]]

In 2020, Modi's government passed new farm laws to overhaul the agriculture sector employing around 60% of India's workforce but farmers protested, saying reforms put jobs at risk and gave control to private corporations

Indigenous group seeks stake in Woodside's $12 bln Scarborough, Pluto LNG project [[link removed]]

As a huge gas project is to be built near ancient rock art site, indigenous group seeks to benefit from the development

Indonesia mulls media bill seeking fairer share from big tech [[link removed]]

New Indonesian draft bill calls for agency to negotiate between media firms and tech companies, as algorithms of big tech companies can have a significant impact on income for digital news media

Children skipping meals in majority of families in Lebanon, UNICEF says [[link removed]]

Children have been hit hard by Lebanon's deep economic crisis with eight in 10 people poor and threats to the education of some 700,000 children a UN report revealed

Opinion OPINION: There’s still time for the United States to do the right thing in Afghanistan for LGBT+ people [[link removed]]

America’s longest war may yet spawn an even longer humanitarian crisis.

OPINION: Will Colombia seize this opportunity to decriminalize abortion? [[link removed]]

After a long, rigorous and objective process of data, figures, findings and stories, Colombia is on the cusp of change.

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