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US education faces ‘a crisis for low-wealth students’

QuotableAndre Perry, Director of Brookings’ Center for Community Uplift, tells Al Jazeera’s This is America that going to college still pays off in the US, but low-wealth students carry most of the debt.Published On 30 Jun 202630 Jun 2026Click here to share on social...

Mourners light candles after deadly German shelter shooting

NewsFeedResidents lit candles on Monday evening near the site of a shooting that killed six staff members at a women and children’s shelter in Stade, Germany. Police say the shooter’s motive was related to a family dispute.Published On 30 Jun 202630 Jun 2026Click here...

Sixty-six years on: The promise of DRC independence remains unfulfilled

Bunia, Democratic Republic of the Congo – It was Thursday, June 30, 1960, when Belgian and Congolese dignitaries gathered at the Palais de la Nation in Kinshasa, then known as Leopoldville, for a ceremony marking the end of more than seven decades of colonial rule.On...

Anxiety turns to joy as Brazil qualifies for the Final 16

NewsFeedBrazil fans at a fan fest on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach celebrated after their team overturned Japan’s early lead with two goals to secure a 2-1 victory and a place in the Final 16.Published On 29 Jun 202629 Jun 2026Click here to share on social...

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UK’s prime minister-in-waiting vows to shake up politics

Andy Burnham, Britain’s likely next leader, vowed to enact radical change to the nation’s politics during a speech in Manchester on Monday. Burnham could become Britain’s seventh prime minister in a decade as soon as July 20.Published On 29 Jun 202629 Jun 2026Click...

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Mehdi Hasan: Disrupting democracy’s decline

With democracy on the decline in both the UK and US, Mehdi Hasan makes the case for independent journalism.Mehdi Hasan has had a front seat to US and UK politics for decades. With Britain facing yet another change in prime minister a decade after Brexit and the US...

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What makes a 'heat dome' and what does it mean?

What makes a ‘heat dome’ and what does it mean?

These unbearably hot and humid summer months that put millions of people across the globe at risk are typically made possible by phenomena known as heat domes.Heat domes can make already-high temperatures even more extreme and prolonged, and they are worsening in...

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