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Mysterious novels of the plague 2020

Where the pandemic is central to The Pull of the Stars, in Hamnet it is a dark presence looming over the book, just as the bubonic plague hung over England throughout Shakespeare’s life, beginning in the fourteenth century as the ‘Black Death’. But it strikes the Agnes family like lightning, …

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The law that could make climate change illegal

Details of exactly how this international dimension will work are now being negotiated in parliament. So far, however, the law has not fully addressed the global promise of rich countries to provide $ 100 billion (£ 80 billion) a year in climate finance to poorer countries, Nordbo says. The fair …

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