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Ambitious policy solutions can break through partisan paralysis and change America. It's time to go big

The US has condemned the Taliban for ordering non-governmental groups in Afghanistan to stop employing women, saying the ban will disrupt vital and life-saving assistance to millions. The Taliban takeover last year sent Afghanistan’s economy into a tailspin and transformed the country, driving millions into poverty and hunger. Foreign aid…

Exclusive: Pausing cuts could fund holiday vouchers for all pupils receiving free school meals, analysis shows

SNP MP Kirsten Oswald is calling on the Prime Minister to act.

In Australia's city with the highest median income, 38,000 people will be living below the poverty line this Christmas.

For decades, Tao Huabi's Lao Gan Ma chilli crisp sauce has dominated China's spicy sauce market but, now, a cloud of competition is looming over her chilli empire.

Tens of thousands of migrants who fled violence and poverty will spend Christmas in crowded shelters or on the dangerous streets of Mexican border towns

Severe eligibility rules dictates 800,000 children living in poverty miss out on free meals as leading author Henry Dimbleby joins our campaign for no kids to go to class hungry

For some Australians, tomorrow will be a holiday of acceptable excess — opulent feasts, mountains of gifts and binge drinking. But many of those straddling the poverty line are worried they will have little to no food on the table.