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October 31, (THEWILL) - Indonesia’s President, Joko Widodo, has urged richer countries to share their vaccines with poorer ones, in an exclusive interview with the BBC. Mr Widodo said it “shouldn’t be just a few countries that get all...

October 31, (THEWILL) - President Joe Biden has arrived in Europe ahead of next week’s key UN climate summit, with his signature climate policy yet to pass through the US Congress. The president’s $1.75 trillion (£1.2tn) Build Back Better social...

October 31, (THEWILL) - In a message recorded exclusively for the BBC, Pope Francis has called on world leaders meeting next week at the UN Climate conference in Glasgow to provide “effective responses” to the environment emergency and offer...

October 31, (THEWILL) - Sixteen people have been evacuated from a burning container ship off Canada’s Pacific coast. The Zim Kingston ship is expelling toxic gas but officials said there is “no safety risk” to people on land. The ship...

October 30, (THEWILL) - Sudan’s six-day-old military junta will face its most serious challenge on Saturday with pro-democracy groups, civilian politicians and trade unions calling for mass demonstrations against Monday’s coup. Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the coup leader, has announced...

October 29, (THEWILL) - A Malaysian gynaecologist, John Tang Ing Chinh, has invented what he says is the world’s first unisex condom. Tang, who is a gynaecologist at medical supplies firm, Twin Catalyst, said the condom is made from a...

October 27, (THEWILL) - The African Union (AU) has suspended Sudan pending a return to civilian rule. The AU said it “strongly condemns the seizure of power” and was suspending Sudan from all AU activities “until the effective restoration of...

October 27, (THEWILL) - Lyft, the US taxi-hailing app, has said that 4,158 incidents of sexual assault were reported to the firm between 2017 and 2019. In its first-ever safety report, Lyft also detailed the number of motor vehicle deaths...

October 26, (THEWILL) - Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) surpassed $1 trillion in market value on Monday after landing its biggest-ever order from rental car company Hertz, a deal that reinforced the electric car leader's ambitions to top the entire auto...

October 26, (THEWILL) - Protesters took to the streets after the armed forces dissolved civilian rule, arrested political leaders and called a state of emergency on Monday. Troops are reported to have been going house to house in the capital...