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Swiss scientists cut waste and sugar

Imogen Foulkes Kim Mishra (L) and Anian Schreiber (R) cooperated on the new chocolate making process Imagine picking up a nice juicy apple – but instead of biting into it you keep the seeds and throw the rest away. That’s what chocolate producers have traditionally done with the cocoa fruit – used the beans and […]

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Furniture giant to pilot second-hand online market

Ikea is trialling its own second-hand online marketplace so that customers can sell to each other, rather than relying on buy-and-sell websites like eBay or Gumtree. Ikea Preowned is already up and running in Madrid and Oslo, with the Swedish furniture giant planning to roll out the site globally by December. It comes against the […]

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Germany’s Olaf Scholz vows crackdown on illegal migration

Irregular migration into Germany “must go down” after a Syrian man who came to Germany as an asylum seeker was charged with killing three people in an attack in the western town of Solingen last week, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said. “This was terrorism, terrorism against us all,” Mr Scholz said during a visit […]

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It seems clear the UK has assisted Israel’s breaches of international law. Surely Labour can do better than deny it | Sam Fowles

Britain’s history of developing and upholding international law should be a source of pride. The UK was once at the forefront of prosecuting war crimes, enshrining international human rights and developing the Geneva conventions. Recent governments, however, treated international law with contempt: successive Conservative administrations legislated to break the EU trade agreement within months of […]

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