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The women desperate to work in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan
Women have been barred from most government employment—or had their salaries slashed and told to stay at home. They are often also first to be sacked from struggling private businesses—particularly those unable to segregate the workplace in line with Taliban rules
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In an unequal economy, the poor face inflation now and job loss later
In that case, poorer families will almost certainly bear the brunt again, because low-wage workers are often the first to lose hours and jobs
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50 years in the making: Why it took US Congress so long to act on climate
In 1969, President Richard Nixon's adviser Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote a memo describing a startling future. Fifty-three years later, Congress is on the cusp of finally responding to what Moynihan had termed 'the carbon dioxide problem'
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US Senate adopts sweeping climate and health plan, in major victory for Biden
The plan, crafted in sensitive talks with members on the right wing of his Democratic Party, would include the biggest US investment ever on climate—$370 billion aimed at effecting a 40 percent drop in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030
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More Ukraine grain sets sail amid new strike at nuclear site
Recent fighting at the plant has prompted the UN's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), to warn of "the very real risk of a nuclear disaster"
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Gas crunch pushes German glassmaker to the brink
In 400 years, Heinz-Glas, one of the world's biggest producers of glass perfume bottles, has seen off many crises—including the two World Wars and the oil shock of the 1970s in the last century alone
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Five sci-fi classics, one summer: How 1982 shaped our present
Whether the summer of '82 represented the gentrification of cinematic sci-fi or its artistic apex, the genre's synthesis of spectacle and sociology had been underway for some time
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A large object landed on his sheep farm. It came from space
The US space agency, NASA, said in a statement that SpaceX confirmed that the object was likely the remaining part of the jettisoned trunk segment from a Dragon spacecraft used during the Crew-1 mission's return from the International Space Station in May last year
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Warner Bros. Discovery aims for 130 million subscribers by 2025
Warner Bros. Discovery, a media colossus formed this year by the fusion of the parent companies of HBO and Animal Planet, revealed the scope and strategy of its streaming ambitions for the first time: that it would offer free and paid services with an ambitious goal
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India withdraws a proposed law on data protection
The Indian government on Wednesday unexpectedly withdrew a proposed bill on data protection—the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, that a panel of lawmakers had been laboring over for more than two years, saying it was working on a new law
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Alibaba quarterly revenue flat for first time ever in June
Alibaba's performance is widely seen as a gauge of Chinese consumer sentiment, given its market dominance, and is reflective of the country's economic slowdown and Covid-19 resurgences that have kept consumers jittery