Permits signed in three languages — none of them binding.
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Cobalt towns of Katanga vote on a co-op their Chinese buyers didn't write.
Roughly nine thousand artisanal miners in Likasi will next week ratify the first worker-owned export charter of its kind in the DRC. By J. Mwila from Lubumbashi.
What we lost when the neighbourhood paper in Miskolc went silent.
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Eye-witness: the six hours before the Belém dam was opened.
A verified contributor in Pará files from the riverbank as residents downstream receive a text alert: "Evacuate within ninety minutes." By L. Souza.
How a public-records loophole erased 1,200 disciplinary files in Bucharest.
A months-long FOI effort — half denied, half redacted — maps which agencies quietly removed the names of officials under investigation. By the Lapok EU Desks.
The translator who has read every Pegasus leak — and redacted them for two courts.
A profile of one of the few certified Arabic-French-Engish forensic linguists qualified to testify on spyware evidence. By R. Halabi in Marseille.
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