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International recruitment has also fallen, with overall visa applications down by about 16% this year, and 20% fewer applications from India alone.

French military technology is being used in Sudan's brutal civil war in violation of a UN arms embargo, rights organisation Amnesty International has said.

A report this week found that 44% of corals living in warm waters are threatened with extinction, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.

The International Monetary Fund has projected that total US “general government expenditure”, which includes spending by individual states, will be around 37.5% of its GDP in 2024.

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have both also expressed concern.