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‘A map is never neutral’: meet the cartographers who took on centuries of western bias
Equal Earth projection, adopted by the UN last week, provides an alternative to 16th-century Mercator display
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Iran school bombing: grounds to believe US was behind atrocity, UN finds
Fact-finding mission says military strikes on school in Minab and sports facility in February constitute war...
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Trump administration again denies entry visas to Palestinian officials ahead of UN general assembly
For the second year in a row, the administration has barred the Palestinian delegation from US travel for the...
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Global leaders urged to join initiative to fight extreme inequality
More than 1,500 academics and economists sign letter, calling growing gap between richest and poorest ‘a polic...
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Nearly 50,000 Yemeni civilians flee as Houthis advance along Red Sea coast
Global struggle for control of Bab al-Mandab strait threatens to turn Yemen’s on-off conflict into a forever w...
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Nepal says big polluters must ‘wake up’ as it calls for climate compensation over flood disaster
Foreign minister Shisir Khanal tells the Guardian the world’s biggest economies need to help Nepal, which cont...