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    Over half of parents and pregnant women exposed to aggressive formula milk marketing: WHO, UNICEF

    A new report details exploitative practices employed by the US$55 billion formula industry, compromising child nutrition, violating international commitments. More than half of parents and...
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    Accelerating melt rate makes Greenland ice sheet world’s largest ‘dam’

    Researchers estimate the power produced by the falling water during peak melt periods was comparable to the power produced by the Three Gorges Dam...
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    Ukraine crisis: the stakes are high

    Around 1.5 million Ukrainians have been forced from their homes since fighting in the far east of the country began in 2014. The UN...
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    On a mission to alleviate chronic pain

    MIT scientist Fan Wang’s studies of how the brain controls pain may one day lead to new treatments that could help millions, giving people...
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    Education

    Alarm: Every two weeks a mother tongue disappears due to globalisation

    At least 43 per cent of the estimated 6,000 languages spoken in the world are endangered. Only a few hundred languages have genuinely been...
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    COVID-19

    Effects of colonialism ‘still being felt to this day’ 

    The consequences of colonialism are “still being felt to this day”, United Nation's secretary general's chef de cabinet Courtenay Rattray said at a meeting...
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    COVID-19

    Rich countries still need to step up on global COVID vaccine access

    The immediate need is for increased dedicated production and export from advanced economies and developing countries, like India, with the necessary capacity, to developing...
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    Child Rights

    Child sex abuse in Madagascar ‘widespread and tolerated’

    Droughts and food scarcity is leading children to sell sex in Madagascar. Two deadly cyclones in recent weeks have heightened worries as successive drought...
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