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Every story published since 2008, indexed by keyword, year and section.

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nigeria
Analysis: Nigeria's Food Prices and the Long Road From Farm to Market
Post-harvest losses and transport costs explain more of the price than the harvest itself.
Adaeze Okonkwo · 27 July 2026
politics
Analysis: Turnout Is Falling Fastest Where Choice Feels Narrowest
Recent ballots suggest disengagement tracks perceived alternatives more closely than convenience.
James Whitfield · 26 July 2026
asia
Feature: Asian Cities Are Redesigning Around Heat
Shade, water and building codes are becoming emergency policy in the region's largest urban areas.
Priya Raman · 25 July 2026
business
Analysis: The Economics of the AI Build-Out Are Being Tested
Data centre capital spending has grown faster than the revenue it is meant to support. Our markets editor examines what the numbers can and cannot tell us.
Robert Keane · 24 July 2026
opinion
Opinion: Local Reporting Is the Infrastructure Nobody Budgets For
When a town loses its last reporter, the costs appear later and elsewhere.
Michael Adeyemi · 23 July 2026
technology
Analysis: Data Centres Have Become a Utility Planning Problem
Grid operators are now writing forecasts around a handful of very large customers.
Clara Hoffmann · 22 July 2026
nigeria
Explainer: Why Nigeria's Electricity Problem Is a Financial Problem
Generation capacity is not the binding constraint. Metering, collections and transmission are. A guide to how the sector actually works.
Emeka Nwosu · 21 July 2026
business
Analysis: Housing Costs Are Now a Labour Market Story
Where people cannot afford to live, employers cannot fill posts, and the effects compound.
Robert Keane · 20 July 2026
editorial
Editorial: Journalism Is Not a Crime
Reporters continue to face detention and harassment in too many countries. Global News restates a simple principle.
Helena Marsh · 19 July 2026
entertainment
Feature: Restitution Has Moved From Debate to Logistics
Museums that agreed in principle to return objects are now negotiating crates, conservation and insurance.
Adaeze Okonkwo · 18 July 2026
science
Explainer: The Orbital Traffic Problem Nobody Owns
Satellite launches have outpaced the rules governing what happens when they stop working.
Mei-Lin Zhao · 17 July 2026
opinion
Opinion: Africa's Debt Debate Needs Better Arithmetic, Not Louder Slogans
Refinancing risk, not the headline stock of debt, is what constrains budgets across the continent.
Daniel Mbeki · 16 July 2026
world
Analysis: Middle Powers Are Setting More of the Agenda
As the largest states deadlock, coalitions of medium-sized countries are doing the drafting.
Helena Marsh · 15 July 2026
fact check
Fact Check: The Migration Figures Being Quoted This Summer
Several widely shared statistics conflate different categories of movement, and the errors run in both directions.
Michael Adeyemi · 14 July 2026
south america
Analysis: The Lithium Boom Has Reached Its Awkward Phase
Prices have fallen, projects have slowed, and producing countries are rewriting the terms.
Tomás Oliveira · 13 July 2026
fact check
Fact Check: Recurring Claims About Vaccine Safety Data
Several claims circulating on social platforms misread public surveillance databases. We explain what those databases are and are not.
Helena Marsh · 12 July 2026
education
Feature: What Teachers Actually Do With AI Tools
Two years after generative tools arrived in schools, the honest picture is narrower than either the boosters or the alarmists claimed.
Helena Marsh · 11 July 2026
nigeria
Analysis: Nigeria's Tax Reforms Face a Collection Problem
Rates are easier to change than compliance, and the gap between the two defines the outcome.
Emeka Nwosu · 10 July 2026
climate
Explainer: Europe's Next Energy Problem Is Storage, Not Supply
Record renewable generation has exposed how little of it can be saved for the evening.
Clara Hoffmann · 9 July 2026
investigations
Investigation: How Emergency Procurement Rules Outlive the Emergency
Provisions designed for crises remain in force years later, and the paper trail thins where the spending grows.
Emeka Nwosu · 8 July 2026
health
Analysis: Health Systems Are Short of Staff, Not Just Money
Recruitment and retention have replaced capital spending as the binding constraint on care.
Priya Raman · 7 July 2026
sports
Feature: The Sporting Calendar Has Run Out of Room
Expanded competitions have collided with player workload, and the medical evidence is no longer ambiguous.
James Whitfield · 6 July 2026
africa
Feature: The Road, Rail and Port Projects Redrawing African Trade
Continental free trade depends less on treaties than on whether goods can physically move.
Daniel Mbeki · 5 July 2026
technology
Analysis: The Chip Supply Chain Is Diversifying Slowly, and Expensively
New fabrication capacity is being built on three continents, but concentration risk has barely moved.
Mei-Lin Zhao · 4 July 2026
climate
Adaptation Finance Remains the Weakest Link in Climate Policy
Money for cutting emissions has grown. Money for coping with warming already locked in has not kept pace.
Clara Hoffmann · 3 July 2026
climate
Explainer: Why Water Security Is Becoming a Budget Line
Governments that once treated water as an environmental issue are now writing it into finance ministry planning.
Sarah Benali · 2 July 2026
business
Analysis: What the First Half of 2026 Told Investors
Six months of data point to an economy that is cooling slowly rather than breaking, but the margin for error has narrowed.
Robert Keane · 1 July 2026
technology
The Semiconductor Map Is Being Redrawn, Slowly
Subsidy programmes in the United States, Europe, Japan and India are shifting capacity, but leading-edge concentration persists.
Mei-Lin Zhao · 27 June 2026
sports
Preview: A World Cup Across Three Countries and Sixteen Cities
The expanded tournament changes travel, scheduling and qualification arithmetic for every squad involved.
Michael Adeyemi · 18 June 2026
business
Central Banks Face a Divided Inflation Picture
Services prices, energy costs and tariff pass-through are pulling in different directions across major economies.
Robert Keane · 9 June 2026
nigeria
Lagos and the Rising Water: A City Planning Against the Sea
Coastal erosion, subsidence and drainage capacity are converging on Africa's largest urban economy.
Adaeze Okonkwo · 28 May 2026
editorial
Global News Opens Its Searchable Archive Back to 2008
Every article we publish is indexed by date, country, section, author and tag, and remains permanently available.
Helena Marsh · 12 May 2026
africa
African Free Trade Area Records First Sustained Rise in Intra-Continental Commerce
Officials point to progress on rules of origin and payments, though non-tariff barriers persist.
Daniel Mbeki · 16 September 2025
world
Pope Francis Dies at 88
The first Latin American pontiff led the Catholic Church for twelve years.
Clara Hoffmann · 21 April 2025
business
Sweeping United States Tariffs Reset the Terms of Global Trade
A new schedule of import duties prompted retaliation, negotiation and a sharp repricing in financial markets.
Robert Keane · 8 April 2025
technology
Chinese AI Laboratory's Efficient Model Rattles Technology Stocks
DeepSeek's release prompted investors to question assumptions about the cost of frontier AI systems.
Mei-Lin Zhao · 27 January 2025
world
Assad Government Falls as Opposition Forces Enter Damascus
A rapid offensive ended more than five decades of Assad family rule in Syria.
Sarah Benali · 8 December 2024
world
Donald Trump Wins a Second, Non-Consecutive Term
The former president carried every battleground state and the national popular vote.
James Whitfield · 6 November 2024
climate
2023 Confirmed as the Warmest Year on Record
Global average temperatures ran about 1.48 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial baseline.
Clara Hoffmann · 9 January 2024
world
Hamas Attack on Israel Triggers War in Gaza
Cross-border assaults killed about 1,200 people in Israel and were followed by an extended Israeli military campaign.
Sarah Benali · 7 October 2023
science
India Lands a Spacecraft Near the Lunar South Pole
Chandrayaan-3 made the first successful soft landing in the region, four years after a failed attempt.
Priya Raman · 23 August 2023
business
Nvidia Passes a Trillion Dollars in Market Value
Demand for chips used to train large AI models transformed the company's financial position in a single quarter.
Mei-Lin Zhao · 30 May 2023
nigeria
Nigeria Removes Its Petrol Subsidy
President Bola Tinubu's inauguration-day announcement produced an immediate tripling of pump prices.
Emeka Nwosu · 29 May 2023
world
Earthquakes Devastate Southern Turkey and Northern Syria
Two powerful tremors hours apart killed more than fifty thousand people and levelled entire districts.
Sarah Benali · 6 February 2023
technology
OpenAI Releases ChatGPT to the Public
A conversational interface to a large language model reached a hundred million users faster than any consumer product before it.
Priya Raman · 30 November 2022
world
Queen Elizabeth II Dies at 96
Britain's longest-reigning monarch died at Balmoral, ending a reign of seventy years.
Helena Marsh · 8 September 2022
world
Russia Launches a Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine
Missile strikes hit cities across the country as columns crossed the border from the north, east and south.
Clara Hoffmann · 24 February 2022
world
Taliban Enter Kabul as the Afghan Government Collapses
Twenty years of Western military engagement ended with a chaotic airlift from the capital's airport.
Helena Marsh · 15 August 2021
business
Container Ship Blocks the Suez Canal for Six Days
The grounding of the Ever Given halted about twelve per cent of global trade and exposed supply chain fragility.
Robert Keane · 29 March 2021
world
Crowd Storms the United States Capitol
Congress was forced to suspend certification of the presidential election result as rioters broke into the building.
James Whitfield · 6 January 2021
health
First Covid-19 Vaccinations Begin Outside Clinical Trials
A 90-year-old woman in Coventry received the first authorised dose, ten months after the virus was sequenced.
Helena Marsh · 8 December 2020
nigeria
Nigeria's EndSARS Protests Culminate at Lekki Toll Gate
Weeks of youth-led demonstrations against police brutality ended in violence in Lagos.
Adaeze Okonkwo · 20 October 2020
world
Death of George Floyd Sparks Protests Across the United States and Beyond
Demonstrations against police violence spread to hundreds of cities within a week.
James Whitfield · 29 May 2020
health
World Health Organization Declares Covid-19 a Pandemic
The agency said the new coronavirus had spread to more than 110 countries and urged governments to act urgently.
Helena Marsh · 11 March 2020
climate
Surge in Amazon Fires Draws International Alarm
Brazilian satellite data recorded a sharp rise in burning, prompting diplomatic friction at the G7 summit.
Tomás Oliveira · 23 August 2019
africa
Sudan's Military and Protest Leaders Agree a Transitional Government
The deal followed months of demonstrations that ended thirty years of rule by Omar al-Bashir.
Daniel Mbeki · 17 August 2019
world
Fire Destroys the Roof and Spire of Notre-Dame de Paris
Firefighters saved the stone structure and the towers after a blaze that burned for hours in front of stunned crowds.
Clara Hoffmann · 15 April 2019
world
Attack on Two Mosques in Christchurch Kills 51
New Zealand tightened firearms law within weeks of the assault, which was livestreamed by the gunman.
Helena Marsh · 15 March 2019
africa
Ethiopia and Eritrea Declare an End to Two Decades of Hostility
Leaders in Asmara signed a declaration reopening embassies, telephone lines and flights.
Daniel Mbeki · 9 July 2018
technology
Facebook Data of Millions Harvested for Political Profiling
Reporting revealed that a personality quiz app collected information on tens of millions of users and their friends.
Priya Raman · 17 March 2018