Shipwreck off Libya’s coast threatens to be deadliest incident in the Mediterranean this year.
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![Nearly 700 deaths have been recorded in the Mediterranean so far this year, according to the UN [File: Santi Palacios/AP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2019/7/25/1945adac91c34d2cb957615851233b1b_18.jpg "Over 100 migrants, refugees feared drowned in Mediterranean Sea")
Environment
Reuters: Germany to ban use of glyphosate from end of 2023
The Greens in Germany are not a progressive party, nor really radically Green, but the number of voters flocking to vote for them is forcing the establishment parties to start adopting green policies. Read here
Finance
Alex Cobham: We Could Eliminate Extreme Global Poverty If Multinationals Paid Their Taxes
International tax rules have reached a crossroads. The reform program announced by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) this summer represents the last chance for the Organisation’s club of rich countries to find […]
Austerity
The Guardian: Grenfell survivor blames landlord’s ‘cancerous’ decisions for disaster
Housing too has become “a commodity to be exploited”. This is nothing new, as Henry George recognised 150 years ago. This fact includes many danger, and as we saw with Grenfell Tower, not only social […]
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