Hend Ayari says she now believes the incident took place in May 2012, not March as previously stated.
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Thursday, 31 May 2018
#BabaeAko: Philippines' Duterte 'intimidated by strong women'
Philippine president's suggestive comments to country's tourism chief comes weeks after threatening to 'kiss' IMF chief.
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Raped Rohingya women due to give birth in refugee camps
UN expects 25,000 babies will be born in May-June at refugee camps after 700,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar's crackdown last year.
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Quebec mosque attack survivors demand ban on assault weapons
Muslim community, still coping with last year's deadly shooting, calls for outright ban on assault rifles in Canada.
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Iraq: Vote fraud allegations trigger recount, fear of turmoil
Electoral commission cancelling results from more than 1,000 polling stations used in this month's parliamentary vote.
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Italy: 'New possibilities' for coalition government
PM-designate puts technocrat government formation on hold to allow for possible compromise by populist parties.
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Libya peace talks: More of the same?
Analysts welcome peace talks but caution they could become 'empty promises to please the international community'.
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Babcock Ranch aims to be first solar-powered town in US
Development near Fort Myers in Florida, with more than 340,000 solar panels, aspires to be a model of sustainability.
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Jordanians protest proposed income tax legislation
Members of more than 33 trade unions, along with numerous private-sector employees, took part in Wednesday’s strike.
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Greece at a stand still as thousands strike against austerity
Thousands flooded the capital, Athens, amid swelling anger over the government's ongoing austerity measures.
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Trials of ISIL widows in Iraq
Up to 1,000 women are on trial in Iraq for 'joining and supporting' the ISIL armed group.
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How a letter by a Catholic archbishop incensed India's BJP
Archbishop Couto's letter should be seen in the context of growing anti-minority sentiment in India.
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Concern over Saudi arrests of women's rights activists
Crackdown before the lifting of a driving ban on women casts doubt over Saudi's approach to reforms.
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On a Knife Edge: The Life of a Young Lakota Warrior
A Lakota teenager growing up on the Pine Ridge Reservation confronts the injustices facing his people.
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Paris police dismantle largest makeshift refugee camp
Police begin clearing out 1,500 refugees and migrants from Millennaire camp in French capital for security reasons.
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South Asia's summer monsoon starts early
The forecast is for an average rainy season but distribution of rain and intense thunderstorms will be uneven.
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Italy's crisis is about to get much worse
The Italian president's veto on a proposed populist cabinet will have dire consequences.
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Ballet and football collide on the Russian stage
Choreographer puts on football ballet to celebrate Russia's World Cup
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Hungry bears raid Baltic beehives
Concern as wild animals come ever closer to populated areas to find food in Finland and Estonia.
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Why Ghanaians are so slow to bury their dead
Bodies are not buried for months, sometimes years, in Ghana as families bicker over funeral arrangements.
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Chile transgender: 'Growing up here is torture'
Why members of Chile's transgender community are lobbying for a change in the law.
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Profile: Billionaire philanthropist George Soros
The hedge fund investor turned liberal philanthropist is politically divisive around the world.
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How Sweden is preparing for its election to be hacked
Will a "Facebook hotline" and propaganda lessons keep polls free and fair?
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US presses North Korea for 'historic' plan to disarm as Pompeo meets Kim aide
State department says regime must map out denuclearisation steps it is willing to take if summit is to go ahead
The North Koreans will have to lay out a disarmament plan in the next few days if a planned summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un is to go ahead on schedule in two weeks’ time, a senior US state department official said on Wednesday.
Related: Trump approach risks disaster, warns architect of previous North Korea talks
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Italian president gives populists more time to form government
Financial markets welcome reprieve by sending the euro back up after being battered by bitter row over the formation of new government
The Italian president, Sergio Mattarella, has granted Italy’s two populist leaders more time to form a government in an attempt to stave off a snap election.
Mattarella signalled he was ready to install a technocrat government if a deal could not be reached, but decided to give Luigi Di Maio of the Five Star Movement and Matteo Salvini of the League more time to draw up a list of ministers that could be accepted by all parties, according to a source close to the presidential palace.
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Arkady Babchenko reveals he faked his death to thwart Moscow plot
Russian journalist fools world’s media by staging his murder in elaborate scheme with Ukraine
Arkady Babchenko, the Russian journalist whose murder was dramatically announced by Ukraine on Tuesday, emerged very much alive on Wednesday and said he had faked his own death in order to thwart a plot by Moscow to kill him.
Smiling, and looking a little sheepish, Babchenko appeared before a surreal press conference held by Ukraine’s SBU security service. He apologised to his wife for the “nightmare” he had caused her but said there had been no alternative to playing at being dead.
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Bavarians wary of new law requiring crosses in all public buildings
State premier brings in rule in reaction to migrant influx, to reinforce ‘Bavarian identity’
Bavaria is bracing itself for the introduction of a new law under which Christian crosses will have to hang in the entrance of all public buildings.
Despite opposition from prominent members of the Catholic church and leading theologians, the law will come into effect in the southern German state on Friday.
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Ambien maker responds to Roseanne Barr: 'Racism is not a known side effect'
After the comedian partly blamed her controversial tweets on taking the sedative, drug-maker Sanofi released a statement
The drug manufacturer Sanofi has clarified that one of its most popular medications, the sedative Ambien, does not cause racism. Sanofi tweeted: “While all pharmaceutical treatments have side effects, racism is not a known side effect of any Sanofi medication.”
The company’s statement came after Roseanne Barr partly blamed the drug for the series of racist tweets which led to her ABC sitcom being cancelled.
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Belgium sheds a chocolate tear as another manufacturer sold off
Sales of historic chocolatiers to foreign firms have caused almost an existential crisis
Chocolate is not only a major economic player for Belgium, worth €2.8bn (£2.5bn) in exports a year, but one of the few cultural artefacts, along with frites (fries) and beer, which bind this complicated country of many languages.
Yet the latest takeover of a stalwart of the Belgian scene, this time by the Qatari royal family, has caused something of an existential crisis. The Flemish daily newspaper Het Nieuwsblad asked: “How Belgian is Belgian chocolate, if just about all the top players are in foreign hands?”
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MH370: search for missing plane heads for one last spot of interest
Ocean Infinity vessel to investigate area where Chinese ship detected ultrasonic pulse as official operation draws to a close
The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is not quite over, the company leading the mission has said, despite the Malaysian government stating on Monday that it had ended.
Ocean Infinity said it was heading to one last spot of interest before it turns back for good.
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Wearing glasses may really mean you're smarter, major study finds
It’s not just a pop culture trope – a University of Edinburgh study has found intelligent people are 30% more likely to have genes related to poor eyesight
If you wear glasses I’ve got some good news: you may well be smarter than the average person. A new study published in the journal Nature Communications has found that needing to wear glasses is associated with higher levels of intelligence. But you probably knew that already.
In the study, the largest of its kind ever conducted, researchers from the University of Edinburgh analyzed cognitive and genetic data from over 300,000 people aged between 16 and 102 that had been gathered by the UK Biobank and the Charge and Cogent consortia. Their analysis found “significant genetic overlap between general cognitive function, reaction time, and many health variables including eyesight, hypertension, and longevity”. Specifically, people who were more intelligent were almost 30% more likely to have genes which might indicate they’d need to wear glasses.
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An exercise in hypocrisy? Trump lectures America on fitness
At the White House’s new Sports and Fitness Day, the president’s past comments on exercise being bad for you were notably absent
Wednesday was Sports and Fitness Day at the White House. This is not to be confused with the Barack Obama-era Fitness and Sports Day, which Donald Trump has cancelled.
Similarly, in February, the president issued an executive order which replaced the Obama’s President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition with a President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition.
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World's longest flight to be launched by Singapore Airlines
New 9,500-mile direct route from New York to Singapore will last 18 hours, 45 minutes
The world’s longest commercial flight will be launched in October, Singapore Airlines has announced.
Passengers will fly non-stop between New York and Singapore, covering a distance of around 9,500 miles.
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Irish PM apologises to 126 people illegally adopted decades ago
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar tells victims disclosures were part of Ireland’s ‘dark history’
The Irish prime minister has apologised in parliament to 126 people who were illegally adopted between 1946 and 1969, saying the disclosures were “another chapter from the very dark history of our country”.
As campaigners said the number quoted was likely to be the tip of the iceberg, Leo Varadkar said: “What was done was wrong. What was done robbed children, our fellow citizens, of their identity. It was an historic wrong that we must face up to – and again, on behalf of the government, I’m very sorry for it.”
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UK man who died at Turkish airport seemed ‘nervous’ before flight
Fellow passenger at Dalaman hub describes scenes before Andrew Westlake’s death
A man who died at a Turkish airport after being escorted off a plane home was nervous before the flight but not aggressive, another passenger has said.
Andrew Westlake, 30, from Annfield Plain in County Durham, died early on Tuesday morning at Dalaman airport. He had been due to fly home after a holiday with his girlfriend and their daughter.
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Belgian gunman 'killed person day before deadly Liège attack'
Benjamin Herman allegedly bludgeoned man to death before killing three others
A prisoner on day release who shot dead two police officers and a bystander in Liège on Tuesday in a suspected terrorist attack had killed another person the previous evening.
Belgium’s interior minister, Jan Jambon, revealed that Benjamin Herman, 31, “committed a murder the night before” he went on his shooting spree in the Belgian city.
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Harvey Weinstein indicted on rape and criminal sex act charges
The former film mogul was indicted in New York City hours after his lawyers said he wouldn’t testify before a grand jury
The former film mogul Harvey Weinstein has been indicted on rape and criminal sex act charges in New York City.
Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance Jr announced the indictment Wednesday and said it brings Weinstein “another step closer to accountability”.
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Constructivist capital: the architectural legacy of Yekaterinburg – in pictures
The constructivists of the 1920s and 30s combined modern engineering methods and technology with communist ideology. The World Cup city of Yekaterinburg has retained this legacy – the largest concentration of constructivist architecture in the world
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World's oldest lizard fossil forces rethink of reptile family tree
Discovery pushes back the earliest known member of lizard and snake group by 75m years
The fossilised remains of a small lizard discovered in rock from the Italian Alps has shaken up the evolutionary family tree of reptiles and shed new light on the survivors of the most devastating mass extinction the world ever faced, researchers say.
Thought to have lived in the triassic period, about 240 million years ago, the creature, known as Megachirella wachtleri, has been unveiled as the oldest known member of a group of reptiles known as squamates – which includes lizards, snakes and peculiar legless creatures known as worm lizards.
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The British countryside is being killed by herbicides and insecticides – can anything save it?
From orchids and moths to hedgehogs and toads, our wildflowers and wildlife are dying out. Making the meadows safe again is a huge challenge – but there are glimmers of hope
In June 2011 I took a long drive up the A1, the Great North Road. At Scotch Corner I turned for Barnard Castle. The villages were well kept, the countryside was green, the fields dotted with sheep. Everything was normal. Or so I thought.
Beyond Barnard Castle I took a narrow lane into part of Upper Teesdale and suddenly colours exploded along the roadside. I stopped the car and jumped out. There was a bed of orchids, hundreds of them, and behind that, billowing banks of violet, scarlet, white, yellow and cornflower blue. I had seen alpine meadows, but this took my breath away. Further into the dale I found a footpath that led me down beside a shady brook. There were more orchids of a different species and a grass snake hunting frogs in a pool. Out in the open again, there was the haunting cry of curlews overhead, then redshanks, plovers and snipe.
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Landmines made by Isis undo progress made by Princess Diana campaign
New mine clearance methods trialled as rising use of homemade devices in Middle East and beyond triggers fresh concern
The international campaign against landmines championed by the late Princess Diana has been driven into sharp reverse by the growing use of homemade devices in countries like Syria and Iraq.
Mine clearance groups are testing experimental mechanical systems to deal with the issue after Stan Brown, the US state department’s leading authority on landmine clearance, warned that a new generation of improvised explosives are more labour intensive, costly and complex to remove.
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How chopping off their horns helps save rhinos from poachers
Violent but bloodless, dehorning is considered a necessary evil by anti-poaching campaigners in South Africa
Armed with a dart gun in a helicopter hovering above Somkhanda game reserve in South Africa, the vet Dr Mike Toft has just shot a powerful cocktail of drugs into the massive white rhino below.
The 2,000kg (315st) bull starts to stagger and sinks slowly to its knees as the drugs take effect. Though immobilised, the rhino is conscious. So, once it has been moved into the right position by a team on the ground, foam earmuffs and a blindfold are placed on its head to reduce stress levels.
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How Donald Trump is weaponising the courts for political ends
Trump is appointing judges far faster than Obama did – and the white-, male-dominated crop could be his most lasting legacy
It was a startling omission even according to the peculiar moral norms of the Trump era. When Wendy Vitter, one of the US president’s judicial nominees, was asked whether she supported the supreme court’s 1954 Brown v Board of Education decision to end racial segregation in schools – a near sacred pillar of progress for civil rights in the 20th century – she did not say yes.
“I don’t mean to be coy,” Vitter, who is up for a seat on the US district court for the eastern district of Louisiana, told her Senate confirmation hearing. “But I think I get into a difficult area when I start commenting on supreme court decisions which are correctly decided and which I may disagree with.”
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Mexico: wife of captured ex-governor living high life in London, rival alleges
Karime Macías disappeared last year after her husband Javier Duarte was arrested amid claims he stole millions from public
Karime Macías’s husband was once one of Mexico’s most powerful men, but when he went missing in 2016 – amid accusations that he had pilfered millions of dollars of public funds – it seemed her life of Riley had come to an end.
Instead, she moved in down the road from the Queen.
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Here's How AMLO Could Still Lose Mexico's Presidential Election
A double-digit lead over his rivals. Widespread disillusionment with the status quo. Is Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s win inevitable, or will any of these scenarios derail him?
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The Russian Journalist Who Was Reported Shot And Killed Is, Well, Actually Alive
Arkady Babchenko's "murder" was reportedly a setup by Ukrainian security services to catch the would-be assailant.
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Here's What We Know About Nipah Virus, The Bat-Borne Disease Killing People In India
The Nipah virus, one of the deadliest infections in the world, has killed 13 people so far. Here's what you need to know.
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Blood Will Tell, Part 2: Did Faulty Evidence Doom Joe Bryan?
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How an Unproven Forensic Science Became a Courtroom Staple
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Spain Is Next to Test Europe’s Stability as Rajoy Faces No-Confidence Vote
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Crosses Go Up in Public Offices. It’s Culture, Bavaria Says, Not Religion.
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Trump Meets With Kim. Kim Kardashian West, That Is.
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Stanley Cup Finals: Braden Holtby Bounces Back to Lift the Capitals
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Sanchez Goes the Other Way, and Severino Stays the Course, in a Yankees Win
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Overlooked No More: The Soviet Icon Who Was Hanged for Killing a Czar
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In a First for Germany, Hamburg Bans Diesel Engines. On 2 Roads.
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Rollout Of EU’s ‘Sweeping’ Change In Data Protection Rules Stirs Confusion
LONDON (AP) — Lars Andersen’s business handles some of the most sensitive data there is — the names and phone numbers of children.
The owner of London-based My Nametags, which makes personalized nametags to iron into children’s clothing, says protecting that information is fundamental to his business, which operates in 130 countries.
But starting Friday, My Nametags and most other companies that collect or process the personal information of EU residents must take a number of extra precautions to comply with the new General Data Protection Regulation, which the EU calls the most sweeping change in data protection rules in a generation.
While the legislation has been applauded for tackling the thorny question of personal data privacy, the rollout is also causing confusion. Companies are trying to understand what level of protection different data needs, whether this could force them to change the way they do business and innovate, and how to manage the EU’s 28 national data regulators, who enforce the law.
“Once you try to codify the spirit (of the law) — then you get unintended consequences,” Andersen said. “There’s been a challenge for us: What actually do I have to do? There are a million sort of answers.”
That uncertainty, together with stiff penalties for violating the law, has convinced internet-based businesses such as Unroll.me, an inbox management firm, and gaming company Ragnarok Online to block EU users from their sites. Pottery Barn, an arm of San Francisco-based housewares retailer Williams-Sonoma Inc., said it would no longer ship to EU addresses. The Los Angeles Times newspaper said it was temporarily putting its website off limits in most EU countries.
The implementation of GDPR has also made data protection an issue in contract negotiations as firms argue about how to divvy up responsibility for any data breach.
“Deals are being held up by data protection,” said Phil Lee, a partner in privacy security and information at Fieldfisher, a law firm with offices in 18 EU cities. “If something goes wrong, what happens?”
EU countries themselves aren’t quite ready for the new rules. Less than half of the 28 member states have adopted national laws to implement GDPR, though the laggards are expected to do so in the next few weeks, according to WilmerHale, an international law firm.
As with most EU-wide regulations, enforcement of the new data protection rules falls to national authorities. While the EU stresses that the law applies to everyone, one of the big outstanding questions is whether regulators will go after any entity that breaks the law or simply focus on data giants like Google and Facebook.
Lawyers also say it isn’t yet clear how regulators will interpret the sometimes general language written into the law. For example, the law says processing of personal data must be “fair” and data should be held “no longer than necessary.”
“It’s time to put on your seatbelt and check your airbag,” said D. Reed Freeman Jr., a privacy and cybersecurity expert at WilmerHale. “It’s kind of like a lift-off with a rocket. It’s about to launch.”
Andersen of My Nametags said the law has already caused problems for his business.
He has been advised that the company website in the Netherlands has to be different from the one in the U.K. because the two countries are likely to apply the law differently, and has a dispute with a supplier over which of them is responsible for protecting certain data.
U.K. Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has tried to ease concerns, saying the most important thing is for companies to try their best to comply with the law and work with authorities to correct any problems.
“We pride ourselves on being a fair and proportionate regulator and this will continue under the GDPR,” Denham said in a blog post. “Those who self-report, who engage with us to resolve issues and who can demonstrate effective accountability arrangements can expect this to be taken into account when we consider any regulatory action.”
The new law comes at a time when advances in technology make data more valuable, and therefore raise the stakes in protecting it.
The ability to analyze everything from consumer purchases to medical records holds enormous potential, with suggestions that it will make us healthier, improve traffic flows and other good things for society. At the same time, it provides business with huge new opportunities for profit, with some experts putting the value of the global data economy at $3 trillion.
That potential is underscored by changes in the list of the world’s most valuable companies, which was once dominated by energy and industrial companies. Now Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook hold five of the six top spots.
“Data is the new soil,” said Adam Schlosser, the project lead for digital and trade flows at the World Economic Forum. “It serves as a foundational element for growth.”
But with that potential comes concern that data can be used for private gain, threatening personal privacy rights.
Allegations that political consultant Cambridge Analytica used data harvested from Facebook accounts to help Donald Trump with the 2016 presidential election offered a tangible example of the fears highlighted by privacy campaigners.
Andersen fears that “dodgy operators” will continue to flout the rules, but he hopes publicity around GDPR will help demonstrate that he takes data protection seriously — that he recognizes the information behind those nametags decorated with cupcakes, unicorns and smiley faces is something to be safeguarded.
“In terms of pieces of data that you don’t want to go astray, your children’s information is kind of the core of that,” Andersen said. “In a way, that’s why we as a company have been successful — (by) trying to treat our customers as parents in the way I would want to be treated as a parent.”
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The story of Pakistan's 'disappeared' Shias
Activists say they are detained without due process over suspected links to a secretive militia in Syria.
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Eight times celebrities messed up on social media
Following the cancellation of Roseanne's show, which other celebrities have messed up on social media?
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Anti-Kremlin journalist’s death faked to thwart murder plot, officials say
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'This is a genocide': villages burn as war rages in blood-soaked Cameroon | Peter Zongo
As rebel groups combat the clampdown on anglophone activists, civilians are being caught in the crossfire, with reports of many killed and tens of thousands forced from their homes
An hour and a half’s drive from Bamenda, in Cameroon’s north-west, is Belo, a village largely abandoned except for a military checkpoint manned by drunken soldiers.
In the middle of the road is a burnt motorcycle. A little further on, a corpse is sprawled – someone has tried to cover it with a few handfuls of grass.
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Trump sees media bias in handling of 'Roseanne' cancellation
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested an executive behind ABC's cancellation of sitcom "Roseanne" was biased while the White House said it did not defend comedian Roseanne Barr's racist tweet that sparked the decision.
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Prominent Russian journalist who criticized Kremlin shot dead in Kiev
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US plans 'steady drumbeat' of exercises in South China Sea, Mattis says
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Gaza's Hamas rulers say cease-fire reached with Israel
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Mother who made up abduction story about dead baby ID'd and charged, SC sheriff says
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Hurricane Maria's death toll was 70 times higher than Puerto Rican officials have reported, study says
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'Taxi King' gets better plea deal after raid on Trump's lawyer
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Televangelist says God told him he needs 4th private plane
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John Kelly Visited His Son's Grave With President Trump on Memorial Day
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A Russian Journalist Was Shot And Killed In His Home In Ukraine
Arkady Babchenko, killed on Tuesday, was a veteran of the Russian military turned critical reporter.
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A Man Killed Three People In Belgium Before Police Shot Him Dead
Two police officers and a man sitting in a car were killed. The incident is being investigated as a potential terror attack.
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In Mexico They Want to Put Tortillas on the Table Again
MEXICO CITY, May 30 (IPS) - Agronomist Irene Salvador decided to learn the process of making corn tortillas in order to preserve and promote this traditional staple food in the Mexican diet, which has lost its presence and nutritional quality.
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Are You Paying Enough for Your Food?
NEW ORLEANS, United States, May 29 (IPS) - Danielle Nierenberg is Founder and President of Food Tank. Emily Payne is a food and agriculture writer based in New YorkMany factors contribute to the cost of a tomato. For example, what inputs were used (water, soil, fertilizer, pesticides, as well as machinery and/or labor) to grow it? What kind of energy and materials were used to process and package it? Or how much did transportation cost to get it to the shelf?
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Why Israel Dropped Out of the Security Council Race: Not Enough Votes
UNITED NATIONS, May 29 (IPS) - Kacie Candela, PassBlue*From the start, it was a closely watched contest pitting Germany, Belgium and Israel against one another for their regional bloc's two seats in the next term on the United Nations Security Council. Israel has never held a seat on the Council, and as it celebrates its 70-year membership in the UN in 2018, the country was aiming high for the June 8 election.
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Harnessing the Blue Economy Must Consider Social Inclusion and Responsible Stewardship
NAIROBI, Kenya, May 29 (IPS) - Amb. Macharia Kamau is the Principal Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Kenya. Siddharth Chatterjee is the UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Kenya. In April 2018, Commonwealth leaders met in a retreat at a royal residence in the English county of Berkshire and agreed on strategies to deepen trade in their 53-member organisation, improve security, tackle climate change, and work togetherfor the betterment of the lives of the people of the Commonwealth.
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Zimbabwe’s Long Road to Gender Parity
BULAWAYO, May 29 (IPS) - Zimbabwe goes to the polls in July for the first general election since the departure of Robert Mugabe, and the jockeying over who will represent the country's major political parties is in full throttle.
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Paraguay's President Horacio Cartes offers resignation
Cartes presents his resignation to Congress so that he can legally take office as a senator on July 1.
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Israel intercepts Gaza boat after setting sail to break blockade
Vessel carrying Palestinian patients, students and activists was captured by Israeli warships and taken to Ashdod port.
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Al Jazeera defends cricket match-fixing film after ICC criticism
World's cricket body said Doha-based network should have shared evidence before broadcasting investigative documentary.
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Russia, US and Jordan discuss need to preserve truce in Syria
The announcement of talks came as it was reported that Syrian government forces were being sent to the region in preparation for an offensive.
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Nicaragua: Deadly crackdown on protests fuels further unrest
The death toll after more than a month of unrest reaches 84 as dissidents increasingly resort to riots and violence.
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Libya's rival leaders agree to hold elections in December
Representatives from 20 countries met in the French capital to agree on a political plan.
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Afghan forces night raid kills civlians in Nangarhar
At least nine people were killed after security forces raided homes in Charparhar district.
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Soros-backed campaign to push for new Brexit vote within a year
Billionaire says holding fresh referendum soon could save UK from ‘immense damage’
A campaign to secure a second Brexit referendum within a year and save the UK from “immense damage” is to be launched in days, the philanthropist and financier George Soros has announced.
The billionaire founder of the Open Society Foundation said the prospect of the UK’s prolonged divorce from Brussels could help persuade the British public by a “convincing margin” that EU membership was in their interests.
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Russian journalist and Kremlin critic Arkady Babchenko shot dead in Kiev
Murder thought related to prominent journalist’s work, following threats that caused him to leave Russia in 2017
A dissident Russian journalist has been shot at his apartment in Kiev in a high-profile murder that police said may have been tied to his reporting.
Arkady Babchenko, a veteran Russian war correspondent, was shot three times in the back as he left his apartment to buy bread. He was found bleeding by his wife. Babchenko, 41, died in the ambulance to the hospital, a government official said.
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Varadkar: Northern Irish women may be able to have abortions in republic
Irish PM says he cannot see why women would be barred from travelling for procedures
Women from Northern Ireland may be able to have abortions in the Republic of Ireland once new laws are introduced there, the Irish prime minister has said.
Leo Varadkar said he could not see why women would be barred from crossing the border for such procedures when they are already allowed access to healthcare in the Irish Republic.
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Belgium shooting: man kills passerby and two police officers in Liège
Terrorism inquiry into attack by prisoner on day release who was later shot dead by police
Belgian investigators have opened a terrorism inquiry after a prisoner on day release shot dead two police officers and a passerby in the centre of Liège before being killed in a shootout.
The man, named as Benjamin Herman, 31, approached the two female officers from behind and repeatedly slashed at them with a boxcutter, or Stanley knife, as they were checking parking meters on Tuesday morning.
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Weinstein lawyers fear 'bad PR' could taint jury in sexual assault trial
Prosecutors reportedly plan to call as many of Weinstein’s accusers to testify as possible
A lawyer for Harvey Weinstein has expressed concern that potential jurors could be tainted by the wave of bad publicity about the former film producer, who has been arrested and is facing sexual criminal charges involving two women.
Weinstein’s attorney Benjamin Brafman, who met behind closed doors with prosecutors and a New York judge on Tuesday morning, said he’d told the judge he was worried about the impact of bad PR on potential jurors following his client’s arrest last week. But he also warned he was limited in what he could say publicly because a transcript of the meeting was sealed.
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Brazil trucker strike leads to premature slaughter of millions of chickens
- Strike over fuel prices paralyzes major exporter
- Disruption of feed prompts farmers to slaughter chickens early
Striking truckers in Brazil have disrupted supplies and exports from one of the world’s agricultural powerhouses, triggering the premature slaughter of millions of chickens as feed failed to reach farmers.
The strike over high fuel prices has paralyzed Brazil, the top global exporter of soybeans, sugar, coffee and chicken. Industrial action could spread to the country’s oil sector on Wednesday, when workers plan to start a 72-hour strike.
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Italy at risk of new financial crisis in wake of coalition's collapse
Shares in New York and Asia fall sharply as investors and EU politicians take fright at strengthening mood against euro
Italy risks careening into a new financial crisis after the Bank of Italy said the country’s leaders could not “disregard” financial constraints and its commitments to Brussels.
Markets around the world were also shaken with the Dow Jones industrial average in New York falling almost 400 points, or 1.58% on Tuesday as investors shifted money into the safe haven of US bonds, putting pressure on bank shares.
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Skeleton unearthed of man crushed by huge rock in Vesuvius eruption
Block of stone violently thrown up by volcanic cloud fell on to victim, Pompeii archaeologists say
Officials at the Pompeii archaeological site have announced the discovery of the skeleton of a man crushed by an enormous stone while trying to flee the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Pompeii officials on Tuesday released a photograph showing the skeleton protruding from beneath a large block of stone that may have been a door jamb which had been “violently thrown by the volcanic cloud”.
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How the right is defending Roseanne Barr's racist tweets
Shortly after ABC canceled the show, rightwing commentators were engaged in false equivalences and ‘mental gymnastics’
At least you can say the Roseanne reboot lasted longer than most members of the Trump administration. Only a couple of months after the premiere aired to one of the biggest TV audiences in years, the revived sitcom has been cancelled, following racist tweets by its eponymous star.
Related: Roseanne cancelled: ABC scraps sitcom after star's 'abhorrent' tweets
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Mexican campaigns awash with dirty money, pre-election report finds
Anti-graft group says that for every peso reported to election officials, 15 goes unreported
For every peso spent by Mexican parties on campaigning and reported to electoral authorities, another 15 pesos goes unreported, according to a new study showing that the country’s political campaigns are awash in cash from dubious sources.
The report, published on Tuesday by the anti-graft group Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity, comes four week’s before the country’s presidential elections. The left-leaning populist, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, leads polls for the 1 July election by double digits.
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Puerto Rico: Thousands more died from hurricane than official toll, study finds
Estimate of 4,600 deaths in sharp conflict with official toll of 64, and researchers say new evaluation may be an underestimate, too
The landfall of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico last September led to the death of thousands on the island, according to a new study – in sharp conflict with the official government death toll of 64.
The report in the New England Journal of Medicine concludes that as many as 4,600 “excess deaths” occurred in the aftermath of the storm due to failures of medical and other critical infrastructure, and described the official number as “a substantial underestimate”.
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Starbucks closes more than 8,000 US cafes for racial bias training
Company shuts coffee shops early to put in place training for 175,000 employees – but says ‘isn’t a solution, it’s a first step’
More than 8,000 Starbucks coffee shops in the US closed their doors for racial bias training on Tuesday, in what the company said “isn’t a solution, it’s a first step” as it sought to rebuild its damaged reputation.
Related: Coffee shop racism; where America's racial divisions are exposed
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Paris 'Spider-Man' joins fire brigade after citizenship fast-tracked
Mamoudou Gassama granted legal status and signs up for €600-a-month internship
Mamoudou Gassama, the 22-year-old Malian hailed as a hero in France for saving a child hanging from a balcony, has been granted legal immigration status and has joined the French fire brigade.
Gassama has been celebrated in France and Mali after a video went viral showing him scaling several storeys of a Paris building to save a four-year-old boy who had already dropped one floor and was dangling from a balcony railing by his fingertips.
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Roseanne cancelled: ABC scraps sitcom after star's 'abhorrent' tweets
Network pulls Barr’s revived show and condemns racist tweets towards ex-Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett
Roseanne Barr’s revived sitcom has been cancelled after she posted a racist and Islamophobic tweet that attacked former Obama White House adviser Valerie Jarrett.
The sitcom star falsely alleged that Jarrett, who was born in Iran to American parents, has connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, and compared her to an ape. Barr wrote: “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj,” using Jarrett’s initials.
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'We’ve lost all hope': the investment scandal wrecking Russian lives
For years, thousands of Russians have been paying mortgages on homes that remain alarmingly unfinished. The ‘defrauded co-investors’ have found a voice – but will the Kremlin listen?
Among the red banners and copies of Trudovaya Rossiya (Working Russia) being passed around at a Communist party rally in Moscow, you could see a new kind of uniform: orange shirts bearing the slogan “Defrauded Co-Investor”.
“We’ve lost all hope,” says Valery Ryabkov, who is wearing one of the shirts. “We’ve gone to the Kremlin. We’ve gone to the mayor. Nothing happens. We get the same run-around everywhere.”
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Is Russia killing stray dogs ahead of the World Cup?
After the mass culls before the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, animal rights activists in the World Cup cities of Sochi and Yekaterinburg fear history could be repeating itself
Earlier this year, Russia’s deputy prime minister, Vitaly Mutko, met with animal rights activist to discuss their fears that stray dogs would be exterminated ahead of the football World Cup. Mutko pledged to stop all cruelty, and said he had ordered the construction of shelters for stray animals.
But activists allege dog killings have continued and that Mutko’s words are meaningless as city governments are not compelled to follow recommendations made at a federal level.
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Mother of all rivers: how the Volga links a divided Russia
The World Cup will be the first time most westerners will be exposed to the great cities of the Volga – and their tense tug-of-war over identity
The Alexander Nevsky is a dingy time machine that bears 196 passengers – war veterans bound for the city formerly known as Stalingrad side by side with boozy weekenders – down the Volga river like a floating Soviet sanatorium.
It was built in East Germany in 1957 by the shipbuilders of Wismar, who sent 49 comfort-class riverboats to their new brothers across the Soviet bloc.
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Gay, black and HIV positive: America's hidden epidemic – video
If you are a black, gay man in America, your risk of contracting HIV is one in two. Leah Green travels to Atlanta, Georgia, which has the largest gay and black community in the country. She finds out how stigma, education and structural racism continue to feed into this startling statistic
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Serena Williams discusses royal wedding after French Open return – video
Serena Williams says the timing of Nike’s ‘The queen is back’ campaign was awkward due to its proximity to the wedding of her friend Meghan Markle to Prince Harry. ‘It was all really exciting to see so much African-American culture impacted in the wedding,’ she says. ‘I was really happy Meghan wanted to incorporate that into it. I think it was just a whole cultural shift and change. It was seeing how far African-Americans have come. I thought it was an incredibly inspiring and beautiful and really motivating thing.’
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Returning artefacts of empire isn’t so simple | Letters
Michael Liversidge and Dr Jharna Gourlay respond to David Olusoga’s suggestion that British museums should send back thousands of objects taken from former colonies
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As someone raised in colonial Africa who has taught art history here for nearly 50 years I agree with David Olusoga that returning the spoils of empire makes a lot of sense (UK should return looted art to ex-colonies, says historian, 28 May). It need not empty our museums of everything so acquired. As he showed in his recent BBC Civilisations programmes, cultural interchange between Europe and the rest of the world shaped a shared heritage. That needs displaying so its legacies can be appreciated without concealing the uncomfortable historical facts.
Objects from the old empires will still have a place in European museum collections because, more vividly than most postcolonial history books, they bring that past to life. Wherever we and they are physically, with modern digital technologies and the internet they can be recorded, seen and interpreted from anywhere, but still there is no substitute for the originals, especially in countries that have few surviving artefacts from their own past. That is why returning some, while retaining others, would be mutually beneficial educationally, culturally and diplomatically.
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US returns $41,000 seized from Texas nurse who planned to open clinic
Anthonia Nwaorie will still sue after US customs seized money she was carrying en route to Nigeria to open a medical facility
A Texas nurse who had $41,000 seized by US customs last autumn as she tried to travel to Nigeria to start a medical clinic has the money back but plans to continue her lawsuit against the government.
After her case attracted widespread media attention, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) mailed Anthonia Nwaorie a cheque that she received last Friday.
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'A legitimate threat': Michael Avenatti on his quest to take down a president
Stormy Daniels’ lawyer insists reports on his finances and personal life are a Trumpian plot with ‘zero bearing’ on his case
Stormy Daniels stood in front of the sex shop wearing a big smile and holding a small box which contained the key to West Hollywood.
Related: Facing Trump, a historian appeals to America's soul: 'I think we'll survive'
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Say hello to Justin Trudeau, the world's newest oil executive | Bill McKibben
The Canadian prime minister presents himself as a climate hero. By promising to nationalise the Kinder Morgan pipeline, he reveals his true self
In case anyone wondered, this is how the world ends: with the cutest, progressivest, boybandiest leader in the world going fully in the tank for the oil industry.
Justin Trudeau’s government announced on Tuesday that it would nationalize the Kinder Morgan pipeline running from the tar sands of Alberta to the tidewater of British Columbia. It will fork over at least $4.5bn in Canadian taxpayers’ money for the right to own a 60-year-old pipe that springs leaks regularly, and for the right to push through a second pipeline on the same route – a proposal that has provoked strong opposition.
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Japanese hunters kill 120 pregnant minke whales during summer months – report
Conservationists call for end of ‘abhorrent’ whaling programme, which Japan argues is conducted for scientific purposes
More than 120 pregnant whales were killed during Japan’s annual “research” hunt in the Southern Ocean last summer, a new report has revealed.
Of the 333 minke whales caught during the controversial 12-week expedition, 181 were female – including 53 immature ones. Figures show that of the 128 mature female whales caught in the hunt, 122 were pregnant.
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Executed, disappeared, tortured: the risks of defending human rights – podcast
In the climate of fear following the murder of activist Berta Cáceres in Honduras, Lucy Lamble talks to Ana Paula Hernández about her work supporting campaigners who fight to protect native lands
According to the human rights organisation Front Line Defenders, 312 human rights activists were murdered in 2017. Of those killed, 212 were from Latin America.
One of the most infamous murders in this part of the world was that of Berta Cáceres, the Honduran environmental defender, allegedly murdered for her opposition to the building of a hydroelectric dam. In her work at the Fund for Global Human Rights, Ana Paula Hernández focuses on protecting those fighting for Cáceres’ cause, and others campaigning across South America.
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The TV show exposing the misery of India's 24-hour train delays | Amrit Dhillon
News presenter Ravish Kumar is using his programme to fight for the millions of people who miss exams, job interviews and funerals because of India’s hopelessly inadequate rail system
For three years, Ashutosh Agarwal studied hard at home for an agriculture exam. To sit the test, he had to travel from Patna to Kota, a 24-hour train ride away. Knowing how unreliable the trains can be, Agarwal planned his trip so he would reach the city a full day early. But the Patna-Kota express train was two days late, so he missed his exam. On prime time television, filmed by news channel NDTV, he was shown weeping over his three wasted years of study.
Normally, Agarwal’s bitter experience would have remained a private story. News channels in India very rarely report on the daily hardships of the poor, or show interest in why the trains used by the wealthy run on time while those used by the masses routinely run late. Most news shows restrict themselves to broadcasting studio-based political slanging matches.
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Beatings, rape and non-stop work: UK women enslaved in forced marriages
Survivors say their plight should be viewed as modern slavery and the perpetrators prosecuted
Betrayed by her own family, isolated from the outside world and raped daily by her violent husband, one desperate teenager turned to a confidential helpline.
The 17-year-old from the north of England first met her abusive partner the day before she was forced to marry the middle-aged man in Britain. She was 16 at the time, but her road to forced marriage in the UK began years earlier.
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‘Roseanne’ Is Gone, but the Culture That Gave Her a Show Isn’t
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Dick Tuck, Democrats’ Political Prankster in Chief, Dies at 94
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‘Very Real, and Very Haunting’: Reporting on a Man Who Set Himself on Fire
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