One person in brazil and two in spain have died of monkey pox. These are the first fatal cases of the disease outside africa. Over the past four decades, access to education around the world has increased dramatically. In far too many countries, the quality of schooling that students are getting is in decline.
As the first fatal cases outside Africa are reported, we investigate the response to the disease, and the parallels with the early days of HIV. Nuclear waste has been stockpiled in supposedly temporary pools for decades; our correspondent visits the first place it is being permanently entombed. And where education is failing even amid encouraging enrolment numbers.
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