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  • A person passing an illuminated sign on a wall reading: 'IQOS - This changes everything'

    Global health
    Tobacco giant accused of ‘manipulating science’ to attract non-smokers

    Leaked documents from Philip Morris reveal ‘secret’ strategy to market its heated tobacco product IQOS
  • A woman poses in a crouch with a sword and shield in a training room

    Women
    Sword Granny: Meet the 82-year-old dedicated to teaching India’s oldest martial art

    Amid rising crimes against women, Meenakshi Raghavan is dedicated to passing on the ancient skills of Kalaripayattu
  • Portrait of a man sitting in a car

    Deo Kato
    Londoner continues epic trans-Africa run after release from South Sudan jail

    Deo Kato detained by security services for three weeks after being arrested near Juba on run from South Africa to UK
  • Sad young African man thinking and looking depressed

    Mental health
    Campaign to decriminalise suicide in four Caribbean nations gains momentum

    New coalition formed to push for repeal of colonial-era laws and reduce barriers to access for those seeking mental health help
    • Afghan women in Islamabad hold up posters and placards in a protest demanding to boycott meeting with Taliban in Doha.

      Let Afghan women join the UN talks next week. It’s what the Taliban fear most

      Fawzia Koofi
    • A mural in Kolkata of a pensive woman looking cautiously from behind a wall, painted in dark monotones.

      Rape
      India’s supreme court to rule on new penal code permitting marital rape

    • The floodlit football pitch of Las Madres Dragonas de Lavapiés in Madrid. The club plays under a mural that has the message: ‘Socially equally, totally free’.

      Sport
      Levelling the playing field: the football clubs helping migrants make a new home in Spain

    • The arms and legs of an African child covered by small fluid-filled blisters

      Mpox
      Warnings over lethal and contagious strain of mpox as children in DRC die

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Explore

  • A man at the front of a crowd smiles and waves

    Under threat of jail, microfinance pioneer vows to keep lending to poorest Bangladeshis

    Muhammad Yunus tells the Guardian charges against him are politically motivated, and expresses concern about personal attacks from politicians
  • Director Rungano Nyoni, left, and actor Susan Chardy at a photocall in Cannes for On Becoming a Guinea Fowl.

    Where was African joy at Cannes or African humour at Sundance? The big film festivals need to look beyond stereotypes

    Oris Aigbokhaevbolo
  • A woman wearing a brightly pattered top and a beaded headband plus bead necklaces and bracelets smiles at the camera

    ‘Africa has zero PR in the west’: the Nigerian influencer using sarcasm on the clueless

  • Adela Rubiano Hurtado and her granddaughter, Adriana, in their living room.

    A sense of optimism and the chance to chat: how Bogotá is giving respect to unpaid carers

  • A black man sits alone with his head bowed

    My embarrassing condition needs a simple operation – but in Nigeria few can afford it

    Michael Adebisi
  • A construction crane alongside a stack tower at the Dangote Industries oil refinery in Lagos

    ‘There is nowhere to fish any more’: life in the shadow of Nigeria’s biggest industrial complex

  • ‘We want to forge ahead’: grief and defiance as Dom Phillips’ widow journeys to site of his death

  • ‘A small respite in the face of horror’: Sudanese artists fleeing war find a safe haven

  • Celebrate, remember and reframe: the therapy sessions healing South Africa’s women

  • Bob Marley is a national hero in all but name. So what are Jamaica’s politicians waiting for?

    Kenneth Mohammed

  • Rise of drug-resistant superbugs could make Covid pandemic look ‘minor’, expert warns

  • Children of Vietnam war’s rape survivors unjustly bear the burden of others’ crimes

    Tran Thi Ngai

  • ‘The Body Shop held our hand’: how the troubled British firm helped a recycling startup in India

  • ‘We all share the same pain’: can the Israeli-Palestinian peace movement rebuild after 7 October?

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Rights and freedom

  • Two rows of bearded men sit at a conference table.

    Shutting Afghan women out of key UN conference to appease Taliban ‘a betrayal’

  • Marchers at Kyiv Pride 2024 in central Kyiv, Ukraine

    First Pride march since Russian invasion takes place in Kyiv

  • A picture of a young girl being held by a woman and a man, who are both kissing her

    ‘Know how loved you were’: fathers write to their children from the frontline

  • westafrica trail

    A cycle of debt, sex work and cocaine: the women in west Africa caught in Europe’s drugs trail

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A common condition

  • Elizabeth Odondi standing by a bridge in a garden

    I told my high school friend we’d battle sickle cell together. But she didn’t make it past 18

  • Portrait of a black woman sitting in a chair next to a computer with a screensaver reading: 'Brain Health Initiative Nigeria'

    ‘They wanted her to confess to witchcraft’: ending the chilling effects of dementia stigma in Nigeria

    • The Food Security and Agriculture Cluster team team distributes dry food rations. April 2023

      ‘There was no other option’: the aid packages feeding diabetes and heart disease in the Pacific islands

    • Sayed Ahmed with his arm around his wife Amena Khatun by the Rupsha River in Khulna, Bangladesh

      ‘It’s in our rivers and in our cups. There’s no escape’
      The deadly spread of salt water in Bangladesh

    • A woman seen in silhouette with a cigarette in front of the Philip Morris International logo

      Experts condemn US tobacco firm’s sponsorship of doctor training as ‘grotesque’

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In pictures

  • A muscular bare-chested young man seen from behind in this black and white photo almost seems to blend into the pile of tyres he is standing on as he lifts them out

    ‘In Nigeria, a tyre never quite dies’: reinventing the wheel in Lagos

    The photographer Andrew Esiebo travelled around the city capturing how car tyres otherwise destined for the dump are finding second lives as seats, fences and swings
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Southern frontlines

  • Antonio Calpanchay, now 45, has cut and sold blocks of salt from the Salinas Grandes, in northern Argentina, since he was 12.

    Battle lines redrawn as Argentina’s lithium mines ramp up to meet electric car demand

  • Pastor Rómulo and a group of his most trusted recovering alcoholics are loading up alcoholics from the streets onto the back of the pickup to bring them to the centre. 20.04.2024 Intibucá, Honduras

    ‘They die like flies’: Intibucá in Honduras has an alarming alcohol problem – can prohibition and tough love fix it?

  • A bird's eye shot of a woman squatting on a rocky beach, sorting through plastic using a pink sieve.

    ‘Your plastic is here’: how Easter Island copes with 500 pieces of rubbish an hour washing ashore

  • A woman with a paddle in her hand looks out from her small boat to the misty water with trees at its edge

    ‘Without them, the city would be lost’: the art of preserving Mexico City’s ancient floating gardens

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Explainers

  • Families arrive on a beach in Mozambique carrying belongings wrapped in fabric bundles on their heads

    At risk: 10 ways the changing climate is creating a health emergency

  • A man in a balaclava holding a rifle looks back at the camera while walking along a dirt street

    What caused the civil war in Sudan and how has it become one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises?

  • Photo of the World Health Organization (WHO) logo displayed on screen with medical syringes and vaccine vials

    What is the pandemic accord and why have negotiations been so difficult?

  • A Rohingya family reaches the Bangladesh border after crossing a creek of the Naf river

    Who are the Rohingya and what is happening in Myanmar?

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Multimedia

  • Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips on a boat
  • Shireen Abu Akleh
  • Still of a migrant labourer The Great Abandonment documentary
  • Still image from documentary, The 'Spider-Man' of Sudan
  • Chris is a reproductive health advocate in the Phillippines
  • Eyewitness: hell on high waters - video

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