The World Today

October & November 2019: The future of waste

Kate O’Neill argues that only global action will solve the crisis in recycling now that China has stopped importing scrap

Patrick Schröder and Ashish Chaturvedi on how India is trying to clean up its shoreline

The Oxford historian and best-selling chronicler of the Silk Roads explains to Alan Philps why China is not building an empire and talk of a new Cold War is mistaken

Farea al-Muslimi on how Yemenis are long adept at pursuing their own aims at the expense of their sponsors

After 20 years, Russia’s leader has lost his hold over voters, writes Nikolai Petrov

Ann Pettifor: British-based analyst of the global financial system who has helped champion the concept of a Green New Deal.

For years rich countries have adopted a policy of ‘out of sight, out of mind’ when it comes to recycling waste.

Articles

At a time of rising concern about the environmental impact of travel, four adventurous souls recall the joys of journeying on foot, by yacht, by bicycle and by train

After three landslide victories President Evo Morales now finds Bolivia is split over a fourth term, writes Victor Jack

Dr. Hamza al-Kateab in his makeshift hospital in east Aleppo

Dr Hamza al-Kateab on what he learned in east Aleppo’s last remaining hospital

Laura Codruta Kovesi is speaking during a press conference after the President of Romania sacked her on July 9, 2018 in Bucharest.

In 2006 Laura Kövesi became the first woman to serve as Romania’s prosecutor general and was later named the head of the Anticorruption Directorate (DNA).