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Cancer, lung disease, miscarriages: are Uruguay’s rice workers paying too high a price to bring in the crop?

The sector is a key driver of the Uruguayan economy, but widespread and ill-controlled use of agrochemicals is affecting employees’ health – despite official assurances

Julio de los Santos, now 50, noticed something was wrong when he began losing his strength and experiencing pain in his legs and kidneys. He couldn’t hold tools and could barely stand. His visits to the doctor became more frequent until he ended up in intensive care, where his wife was told to prepare for the worst.

He survived, but today depends on more than 30 medications and a ventilator.

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© Photograph: Joerg Boethling/Alamy

© Photograph: Joerg Boethling/Alamy

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Era of free trade and investment is over, Canada’s PM tells Apec summit

Mark Carney warns Asia-Pacific leaders global economy undergoing profound change, as China’s president mounts defence of free trade

The Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, has warned that the era of free trade and investment that formed the foundations of the postwar global economy has ended.

In a stark message to Asia-Pacific leaders at the Apec summit in South Korea on Friday, Carney said rules-based open trade no longer worked in a global economy that was undergoing one of its most profound periods of change since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

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© Photograph: Yonhap News Agency/Reuters

© Photograph: Yonhap News Agency/Reuters

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Living through the horror of Hurricane Melissa – podcast

How will Jamaica recover from its most powerful hurricane on record? Natricia Duncan reports

When Hurricane Melissa reached Jamaica on Tuesday, it was the most powerful weather system to hit the island since records began.

Ava Brown, in St Catherine parish, says her neighbourhood has been turned upside down. “Most of my neighbours’ roofs are gone. Crops and animals have drowned. Roads are impassable. People have died. I heard an unconfirmed report that one of the hospitals is almost unusable. It’s a disaster.”

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© Photograph: Octavio Jones/Reuters

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