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Pakistan’s voter turnout decline: Why more women registered, but fewer cast ballots in 2024
Pakistan added millions of women voters in 2024, but declining turnout reveals deeper barriers to meaningful political participation.
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New DNA analysis identifies more members of the ill-fated Franklin expedition
Researchers have revealed the identities of six sailors and shed new light on the expedition that went missing more than 170 years ago.
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Errol Flynn’s biographer calls him the greatest heartthrob of his time – but racist and a rapist too
Most of Errol Flynn’s films now seem B-grade at best – but Patricia O'Brien’s biography of this Tasmanian devil is compulsive reading.
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How community groups, activists and local media turned Camden into a model of police reform
Camden, New Jersey’s homicide rate in 2025 was four times the national average – still high, but a marked change from when it was 18 times the national average in 2012.
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The sacred cloth at the center of the Hajj pilgrimage
As millions gather for Hajj, they will circle the Kaaba, which is draped in the black cloth known as the kiswah – a sacred object shaped by centuries of faith, politics and power.
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You’ve been trying to get around Amazon – but it’s not that easy
For shoppers tying to avoid Amazon, its expansion into shipping and logistics for thousands of companies makes that choice more difficult.
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Beyond Disney: A 1616 portrait of Pocahontas shows how English colonizers saw Indigenous Americans
The English assumed people they colonized would convert to their way of life, including Protestant Christianity – an assumption reflected in Pocahontas’ portrait.
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The Sahel region is less secure than ever: foreign forces just add to the cycle of violence
After more than a decade, external security intervention has left the Sahel region more fragmented, militarised and violent.
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Why 40 per cent of people are avoiding the news, according to a psychologist
News fatigue is not a personal failing, but a result of an evolutionary brain being asked to process a large volume of bad news from around the world.
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Beyond hot flushes: what menopause can do to your heart – and why it matters
Heart disease isn’t just a “man’s problem”. Men and women’s bodies handle fats differently in midlife. What are the cardiovascular risk factors and is hormone therapy good for heart health?
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Being taught by people who know stuff instead of prepared teachers risks our children’s futures
We are trading one problem — not enough teachers — for another and much deeper problem: lesser qualified teachers.
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Trump’s ‘largely negotiated’ truce with Iran exposes a deeper crisis in U.S. strategic thinking
Donald Trump isn’t the first American president to fall prey to the allure of U.S. military might and to ignore its limitations.