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Could a new global panel defuse inequality’s ‘ticking time bomb’?
What if the world tackled inequality with the same kind of scientific firepower it has brought to the climate crisis?
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Gaza: At least 20 killed in deadly building collapse, search for survivors continues
Search and rescue operations continued in Gaza City on Wednesday following the collapse of a bombed-out building that killed at least 20 people, according to reports.
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Gaza remains recovery points to possible war crimes, says UN rights chief
Bodies are still being pulled from the rubble of Gaza, three years after Israeli bombardment flattened entire neighbourhoods – most of them women and children.
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Sharp spike in executions, death sentences in Iran
The UN rights chief expressed alarm on Wednesday over the sharp increase in executions and death sentences in Iran since the US-Israeli bombing campaign began in late February, warning that capital punishment is being used to intimidate the population and suppress dissent.
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Hiroshima fosters hope, 81 years on from nuclear catastrophe
Eighty-one years ago on Thursday, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, reducing the city to ruins, killing tens of thousands of people and bringing the world “face to face with the catastrophic power of nuclear war”.
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UN Syria inquiry presses for answers on missing detainees after wide-ranging visit
UN investigators have urged Syria’s Government to trace thousands of missing detainees and hold perpetrators to account after a week-long visit that took in bomb attacks in Damascus, prison visits in the northeast and reports of vigilante violence in Homs.
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