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Media coverage has fixated on burning bins. The real story is a generation of 14 to 16-year-olds fighting cuts, crumbling classrooms and schools unready for the climate crisis – with teachers, unions and pensioners backing them.

Amnesty International accuses US immigration enforcement of unlawful killings, possible enforced disappearances and detention conditions that may amount to torture. It says the agency should be scrapped.

A weekly US news round-up produced with The Nation magazine is trying to make sense of an administration built to overwhelm. Left Field thinks it’s worth your time subscribing to it.

Governments are rolling out heat-health plans and cooling centres as Europe burns. What they’re still avoiding is the fossil-fuel expansion driving the crisis in the first place, says Rob Dyer.

La France Insoumise is selling France 2027 campaign shirts disguised as World Cup kits, proving that the left can do populism just as well as the right, if it's bold enough to try.

A new Reuters Institute report reveals global trust in news has fallen to its lowest point in over a decade. It’s the direct result of mainstream outlets peddling false balance and biased coverage on Gaza, Ukraine and migration – and it's exactly why Left Field exists.

As wildfires rage north of Madrid and across south-west France and around 300,000 people are evacuated, the climate emergency has stopped being a distant headline and become a European reality.

As NATO leaders gathered in Ankara to plan for war with Russia, tens of thousands are already dying from extreme heat across Europe.

Belgian workers are on the streets again demonstrating against public spending cuts and austerity measures being imposed by the governing coalition.