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Oxfam's Destroy and Rebuild Index: 'Wealthy minority of investors benefit from both sides of crisis'

The world's most vulnerable populations bear the brunt and the costs of the climate crisis, while the wealthy and powerful profit. Oxfam France’s Climate Inequality Advocacy Officer Selma Huart examines the relationship between concentrated wealth, unequal exposure to disasters and investors profiting from both polluting industries and reconstruction. “They are burning the planet, benefiting from it, but they are also benefiting from rebuilding,” she explains. Huart places redistribution at the centre of climate policy, calling for taxes on wealthy polluters to finance protection for vulnerabl

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Europe's Gen Z protesters unite over living costs, housing and employment uncertainty

Although French high schoolers may have taken the lead in the youth protests that have since spread to Belgium, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain, they acted like "a catalyst" for their shared concerns over their future, researchers say, pointing to higher living costs, unaffordable housing and the uncertainty of their employment prospects.

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Russia again pummels Ukraine after rare pause in fighting in Kherson

Intense fighting between Russia and Ukraine again picked up after a rare ceasefire allowed for a humanitarian mission to reach the war-torn, Russian-occupied city of Oleshky in the southern Kherson region. While Russia accused Kyiv of sending hundreds of drones toward Moscow overnight into Tuesday, Kyiv said Russia had killed dozens of civilians lining up for aid in Zaporizhzhia.