Big banks made big promises to fight climate change. But as the world warms, financial institutions are quietly rethinking those plans: Listen to the Big Take podcast trib.al/zdeC7Bk

On human smuggling: I speak with an agent in the outskirts of Quetta, who says they sell people off to various other agents. And the auction happens in two of the busiest bus stands in Quetta: Musa Colony and Hazaar Ganji. For BBC Urdu: bbc.com/urdu/articles/…

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Famine is imminent in northern Gaza, where no humanitarian group has been able to provide aid since January 23, the World Food Programme warned, as Israel wages war on Palestinian militant group Hamas.

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More migrant children cleaning head splitters:

Inspectors started investigating Fayette Janitorial after we reported on a 14-year-old who had his arm shredded while cleaning a Perdue slaughterhouse for them.

Now they've found kids working for the company in other places too.

plastic is the problem.

'The idea that recycling can solve the problem of plastic waste 'has always been a fraud, and it's always been a way for the industry to sell more plastic'

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atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atla… Uzair Younus عُزیر یُونس

Former Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was nominated as the country’s next premier after a rival group pledged support, ending a deadlock in the formation of a government following national elections last week that delivered a split mandate. trib.al/U8VCOKM

Follow our free-to-read live blog on Pakistan's general election with my colleagues
Faseeh Mangi Niki Koswanage @ismailDilawar Pradeep Kurup Betsy Joles Francesca Stevens Supriya Batra
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Pakistan’s voters are the most pessimistic about their economy on record
- Almost half said it was hard to get by on present income
- Seven out of 10 Pakistanis aren’t confident that elections will be fair
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My latest on Pakistan's plan to revive agriculture by handing over state land to the army, with hopes of attracting international investment. It's an ambitious project with a lot of moving parts and some opponents. You can read more about it here: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

In this brilliantly illuminating essay, Annika Schmeding brings readers to Afghanistan where the question looms: what happened to the Sufis? It turns out Sufism still survives, creatively adapting to ever changing governments, laws, and rulers Annika Schmeding bit.ly/48IePOG

'Pakistan's wheat yield — 2.9 tons per hectare — is 17% lower than India, 49% lower than China, 47% lower than EU. Continued reliance on a fraying industry, combined with climate change, is now raising serious concerns about food security.' bloomberg.com/news/articles/… by Betsy Joles

Pakistan wants to save its ailing farming industry. The army has a plan trib.al/3Ja1uHl

HOW ENERGY TRADERS LEFT A COUNTRY IN THE COLD

Pakistan, one of the world’s poorest nations, thought it had secured natural gas to fuel its economy

Commodities firms had other ideas

Full story with Faseeh Mangi 👇

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CNN expands its focus to the whole of Gaza during the early weeks of the war. They found 500 examples of where Israel had dropped 2,000-pound bombs. This in one of the most densely populated places in the world.