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Countries urged to pay up like Scotland to tackle climate change losses

A new report from Oxfam reveals the cost of extreme weather-related emergencies, like flooding or drought, have risen by billions of dollars

The National (Scotland)

The best vintage clothes shops in Manchester

The price of clothes and shoes rose by 6.3% between January 2021 and 2022 - but thrift stores offer cheap alternatives

Manchester Evening News

Vintage chair in Oxfam gives shoppers creeps thanks to 'suspicious' note left on it

A vintage wingback chair with a spooky look about it has sparked some suspicion among spooked Oxfam customers, after staff attached a 'definitely not haunted' sign to it

Daily Mirror

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Oxfam chair goes viral after shoppers spot 'suspicious' note attached to it

One staff member said the vintage chair looked like it "belonged in a haunted house"

Liverpool Echo

‘Catastrophic hunger’: Charity urges truce extension in Yemen

Two-month truce is set to expire on Wednesday, prompting calls for an end to ‘the cycle of violence and suffering’.

Al Jazeera

The multiple faces of inequality in India

Known for its caste system, India is often thought of as one of the world’s most unequal countries. The 2022 World Inequality Report (WIR), headed by leading economist Thomas Piketty and his protégé, Lucas Chancel, did nothing to improve this reputation. Their research showed that the gap between the rich…

The Conversation

India the billionaire raj? Not so fast

Several reports in the last few months have sounded the alarm about growing income and wealth inequality in India. The statistics cited are not wrong, but they are incomplete. And they have produced sensational, but misleading, news stories.

Bangkok Post

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Good Pop, Bad Pop: An Inventory by Jarvis Cocker review

Clearing out his loft gives the former Pulp frontman a chance to look back at his formative years, and the objects that shaped him

The Guardian - UK

Morning Digest | Quad leaders meet in Tokyo at 2nd in-person summit; India to be the leader of green hydrogen, says Puri in Davos, and more

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The Hindu

New billionaire was created every 30 hours during the pandemic

Nearly one million people could be pushed into extreme poverty in 2022, according to Oxfam

The Independent UK

Zelensky tells Davos: send us weapons, stop Russia trade

Davos (Switzerland) (AFP) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky used the Davos summit Monday to appeal for more weapons and "maximum" sanctions against Russia, lamenting that tens of thousands of lives would have been saved had countries acted faster.

AFP

Global elites return to Davos under Ukraine storm

Davos (Switzerland) (AFP) - The Davos summit of global political and business elites returns Monday after a Covid-induced two-year break to face another momentous crisis: Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

AFP

Governments need to take urgent action to combat inequality -Oxfam

Governments need to take urgent action to tackle rising inequality which emerged over the COVID-19 crisis with a surge in energy and food prices ramping up pressures on millions of people around the world, Oxfam said on Monday.

Reuters

World's billionaires have grown richer over pandemic than previous 23 years

Charity Oxfam claims there are now 2,668 billionaires in the world, 573 more than in 2020 and they are collectively worth an estimated £10.2trillion

Daily Mirror

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The Guardian - UK

Food and energy billionaires $453bn richer than two years ago, finds Oxfam

While elite gather in Davos, charity calls for wealth tax after rich benefit from soaring energy and food prices

The Independent UK

World faces ‘unprecedented’ wave of hunger as Ukraine harvests worse than feared

Fears of famine grow as war slashes Ukrainian grain production by half, threatening vital exports

AFP

Davos returns under Ukraine cloud after Covid break

Paris (AFP) - The world's political and business elite will hobnob in Davos next week after a two-year break caused by Covid, with the Ukraine war set to dominate the exclusive Swiss mountain summit.

The Independent UK

Truss wants reassurance over ‘appalling’ behaviour before lifting Oxfam aid ban

The UK suspended aid funding to the charity in April 2021 following sexual misconduct claims against staff.

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Rare Palestinian Banknote Sold for 140,000 Pounds in Auction

Paul Wyman was volunteering in the Brentwood's Oxfam branch when he noticed in a package of donated goods, an odd-looking banknote of £100 Palestine pounds issued in 1920, Britain's The Daily Mail reported. Wyman, who located the note, chose not to put it on the shelves and instead called an…

Liverpool Echo

Rare banknote found in Oxfam charity shop sells for £140,000

Paul Wyman was in disbelief when the note sold for 1,400 times its original value

Daily Record

Rare £100 banknote found in charity shop sells at auction for £140,000

Paul Wyman was working as a volunteer at the Oxfam store when he came across the nearly 100-year-old banknote in a donation box.

Daily Mirror

Rare banknote found in charity shop sells for 1,400 times its original value

Paul Wyman found the rare banknote in an Oxfam shop and thought it looked a little unusual, but he had no idea it would be worth so much until it went under the hammer

The Independent UK

Rare £100 note sells for staggering sum at auction

Proceeds will go to Oxfam’s work in east Africa and Ukraine, charity says

Wales Online

Rare £100 note found in charity shop sells for £140,000

Fewer than ten of these banknotes are known to exist

AFP

Despite public anger, Lebanon vote set to entrench status quo

Beirut (AFP) - Lebanon's elections Sunday won't yield a seismic shift despite widespread discontent with a graft-tainted political class blamed for a painful economic crisis and a deadly disaster, experts say.

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