Plastic chokes Indonesian islands as policies, enforcement slip through ghost nets
Ghost nets and plastic pollution plague Indonesia’s Anambas Islands, harming marine life and exposing the gap between regional pledges and enforcement. This environmental crisis is…

Pharma giants pay millions to Russian distributor entangled in corruption allegations to win cancer drug business
Xi emerges powerful from Beijing meeting, but maybe not all-powerful
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