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The Mercury’s Sound Off for Sunday, February 9
Sound Off is an opinion forum for Mercury readers to offer brief comments on today’s news. Submissions must be 75 words or ...
Novelist Robert Plunket: ‘There’s a cruelty in human nature that publishers pretend doesn’t exist’
With its “racist, fat-phobic” hero, Plunket’s 1983 classic, My Search for Warren Harding, is the novel our timid times need ...
Big Boys’ sucker-punch final season proves it’s one of the finest British comedies of the past decade
Jack Rooke’s coming-of-age story has reached its conclusion. We will miss this brilliant sitcom, which always acknowledges, ...
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Conservative Merz: German chancellor Scholz out of touch with reality
German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, the favourite to become the country's next chancellor, accused incumbent Olaf Scholz of failing to recognize the poor state of the German economy, as the ...
DPA International on MSN6h
Germany's Scholz again rules out sending long-range missiles to Kiev
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday again ruled out delivering long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine, accusing his conservative rival Friedrich Merz of wavering on the issue as the pair faced off ...
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Climate Change
From stubble burning to toxic smog, Pakistan's air pollution crisis threatens its future; the only way it can rise above the haze is through strategic action, with bold policy changes and climate ...
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Conference of the Parties (COP)
The COP is the supreme decision-making body of the Convention. All States that are Parties to the Convention are represented at the COP, at which they review the implementation of the Convention and ...