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Global development

  • A collage of men in hard hats and oil rigs against a backdrop of a map of Mexico

    The Latin oil rush
    Mexico’s love affair with Pemex: will its bid to save the fallen oil giant block the shift to clean energy?

  • A man in a white coat passes a probe over a woman's abdomen and looks at a screen.

    ‘I am happy to see how my baby is bouncing’: the AI transforming pregnancy scans in Africa

  • A crowded train platform in Mumbai, India

    Global population predictions offer ‘hopeful sign’ for planet, UN says

    Projected high of 10.3bn people is lower and will come earlier than expected, analysis suggests
  • Voters in Iran put their votes into red ballot boxes.

    Rights and freedom
    ‘I feel betrayed by the west’: Iran’s freedom protesters react to their new president

    Many who took to the streets in 2022 boycotted the poll that elected ‘reformist’ Masoud Pezeshkian, while others feel he is their only hope
    • The Latin oil rush
      Argentina’s future lies in the balance as vast oilfields poised for extraction

    • The Guardian picture essay
      In the footsteps of tigers: the all-women patrol team protecting Sumatra’s rainforest

    • Seascape: the state of our oceans
      ‘Everyone was paddling to get away’: seals with rabies alarm South Africa’s surfers

  • Afghan women protest to demand their right to education and work in Mazar-e-Sharif last August.

    UK should restore diplomatic presence to help Afghan women, says aid chief

  • Aviles Morphy stands among felled trees in the forest

    ‘Just give me 30 men and a few arms’: Honduran Indigenous groups ready to fight to save land

  • Illustration with composite images from Ecuador including an Indigenous man, trains, forest and an oil can

    The Latin oil rush
    ‘This is something that divides us’: Ecuador’s turbulent transition from oil dependence

  • A windowless tiled room with a barred gate. The metal reinforcements for the derelict concrete walls can be seen

    Torture, starvation, rape: Moi’s Kenya and the dark legacy of Nyayo House

  • Illustration of composite images from Brazil

    The Latin oil rush
    Pristine forests and grinding poverty: why shouldn’t Brazil’s Amapá state embrace oil wealth?

  • A cleaner in Jaipur, India, squats to sweep leaves from a lawn.

    Opinion
    The Hindujas made UK headlines for mistreating their servants. In India no one batted an eye – here’s why

    Amrit Dhillon in New Delhi
  • A photographic collage showing the colours of Guyana's flag, a map of Guyana, oil pipelines, deforestation and some of the people featured in the article

    The Latin oil rush
    Guyana banks on future as a ‘new Qatar’ in high-stakes gamble over oil production

    With newfound oil wealth reshaping the economy, can the country balance growth with sustainable development?
  • The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, wearing orange overalls and a white hard hat, holds up his oil-covered hands to the camera.

    The Latin oil rush
    ‘Will you stop exploring yours?’: Latin America forges ahead on new oil frontier

    About half the countries in the region are experiencing a rush in oil exploration that threatens the global drive to achieve net zero. But many argue that they have a right to enrich themselves in the same way the west has
  • Rows of small blue-capped glass bottles containing milk.

    Pakistani breast milk bank closes after Islamic clerics withdraw approval

    Doctors deplore decision and point to country’s high neonatal mortality rate as bank, which opened in June, forced to close without taking a single deposit
  • An employee carries a blue shark into cold storage at Miami Pescado, Cananéia.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘We sell it in secret, like drugs’: Brazil’s appetite for shark meat puts species under threat

  • A few bright blue river rafts full of people wearing life vests and holding oars, on a green river alongside a rocky cliff the expands high beyond the frame.

    Colombian ex-guerrillas traded war for whitewater rafting. Now dissident rebels are forcing them out

  • Olympians, from left to right, Husnah Kukundakwe; Taonere Banda and Kishmala Talat.

    Beating the odds: three Olympic sportswomen on overcoming poverty, mockery – and small swimming pools

    In the second part of our focus on the run-up to the Paris Olympics and Paralympics, we speak to women who have faced mockery, abuse and a lack of resources to compete for their countries in their chosen fields
  • Screenshot of women celebrating

    Opinion
    Sierra Leone has banned child marriage – to truly set women free it must end FGM

    Josephine Kamara
    Marrying young girls may now be illegal, but lawmakers seem reluctant to put a stop to genital cutting, and the two go hand in hand
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