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Education Worldwide

Access to education is Article 26 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, which states that: ‘Everyone has the right to education. Education shall…

Gaynor Cobb 23 December 2020

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The Worlds Worst Humanitarian Crisis

2020 is immortalised.A watershed year and contender for the “The World’s Worst Year” in modern times. The headlines were bleak, the economic hardship unparalleled, and…

Eve Stansell 23 December 2020

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Iran oil attacks trigger 35% gas price spike – and warning of interest rate rises 20 March 2026
Iran’s attacks on energy facilities across the Gulf threaten to drag war into new phase
Alastair Jamieson and Alex Croft
How countries are cutting deals with Iran to move oil through the Strait of Hormuz – and undermine Trump 20 March 2026
The sea channel has become perilous for oil tankers since Iran claimed control of it during the war. But experts tell Bryony Gooch that Tehran may be willing to grant safe passage to countries willing to engage in diplomacy
Bryony Gooch
Netanyahu is copying Putin’s tactics by bombing Iran’s energy system – it will backfire badly 20 March 2026
The Israeli bombing of the South Pars gas field has chilling parallels to Russia’s bombing of Ukrainian infrastructure, which has been condemned as a possible war crime. World affairs editor Sam Kiley writes that such a strategy will cause needless pain and do nothing to bring the regime to its knees
Sam Kiley
Fifa responds to Iran request to move their World Cup games from United States 20 March 2026
President of Iranian football federation previously said Iran was ‘negotiating’ with Fifa to move games to Mexico
Jamie Braidwood
Iran hits Kuwaiti oil refinery and explosions boom over Tehran from Israeli attack 20 March 2026
A Kuwaiti oil refinery has been hit as Iran launches new attacks on regional energy infrastructure
Jon Gambrell and David Rising
Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin’s troops face deadliest day of year as Kremlin gives update on peace talks 20 March 2026
More than 1,700 Russian troops killed or injured along war frontline, says Kyiv
Arpan Rai and Bryony Gooch
Iran-US war latest: Israel launches fresh attack as Trump tells Netanyahu not to repeat strikes on Iranian energy 20 March 2026
Netanyahu says Tehran ‘weaker than ever’ as he praises Trump for co-operation in US-Israeli war
Rachel Dobkin and Alisha Rahaman Sarkar
Pentagon to reportedly keep National Guard in DC three more years even after Trump declares city ‘crime free’ 20 March 2026
‘We're just days away from the most beautiful season here in Washington, which, by the way, is a crime free city... just about,’ Trump said at a White House event Thursday
Mike Bedigan
Father of dead serviceman says he never told Hegseth to ‘finish the job’ in Iran: report 20 March 2026
‘No, I didn’t say anything along those lines,’ Charles Simmons told NBC News in an interview Thursday
Mike Bedigan
3 men are charged with conspiring to smuggle US artificial intelligence to China 20 March 2026
A senior vice president of Super Micro Computer Inc. and two others affiliated with the company have been charged with conspiring to smuggle billions of dollars of computer servers containing advanced Nvidia chips to China
Larry Neumeister and Michael Liedtke