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EU CHIEFS defied the will of the European Parliament yesterday by announcing a push to extend use of a weedkiller linked to cancer in humans.
European Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis called for a “limited extension of the current approval” for the herbicide glyphosate, which the International Agency for Research on Cancer evaluates as “probably carcinogenic to humans.”
Campaigns for the herbicide to be banned have led member-state governments to hesitate over the Commission’s bid to see it approved again.
Anyone who criticises those in power in Kenya risks their freedom or worse. The brutal abduction of Booker Omole marks a new escalation in a country sliding toward authoritarian rule, says MARC VANDEPITTE
The West’s dangerous pesticide dumping in Africa is threatening biodiversity, population health and food sovereignty, argues ROGER McKENZIE
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT