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Africa’s economic growth is hinging on creating 1 billion jobs by the end of the century. Where will it find them?

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Dementia has surpassed heart disease as the leading cause of death throughout Australia, according to the Australian Bureau ...

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In one of Iran’s starkest public health assessments, Deputy Health Minister Alireza Raeisi has described a growing crisis driven not by nature but by human activity: more than 57,000 Iranians lose ...

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Following the global financial crisis of 2008, several European countries - Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain - ...

The region's forests now absorb 600m tons of CO2 a year, down from 1.5bn tons two decades ago due to deforestation ...

The Coalition is looking at reducing Australia’s annual net migrant intake by at least 100,000 below current levels, and ...