US on Friday said it will close its consulate in Basra following threats from Iran and Iran-backed groups.
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Sunday, 30 September 2018
Senegal split over legalizing traditional medicine
Politicians aim to ease the burden on hospitals, but medical doctors protest against allowing witchcraft.
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Morocco's teachers debate: Classical Arabic or local dialect
Educators in Morocco are asking what language is more important to be taught in schools.
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Egyptian activist jailed for posting sexual harassment video
Amal Fathy has been convicted of spreading 'fake news' through a Facebook video she posted in May.
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UN pledges to eradicate peacekeeper sex abuse
Sex abuse scandals have caused immense damage to UN's reputation, particularly in Haiti and Central African Republic.
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Ryder Cup: Europe extend lead over US
The momentum is with Europe after a stunning comeback in Friday's afternoon session.
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The new Mahathir and Malaysia's media revamp
Once branded as 'enemy of the press', what does Mahathir Mohamad's return to power mean for Malaysia's journalists?
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Iran worry retaliation from fighters during Syrian campaign
A week after the terror at Ahvaz, Iranian civilians protest against Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the US.
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After Ahvaz: Iran's national security worries and challenges
As questions swirl about the Ahvaz attack, Iranians eye Israel and hope for political change in the US.
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Protests at UN: Number of violent conflicts tripled since 2010
Political discourse highlight the disconnect between those in power and those who are suffering the most.
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Congo presidential election concerns over credibility of vote
Rural people in Congo worry that electronic voting machines, being used for the first time, will be manipulated.
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Chad troops kill 17 Boko Haram fighters after Lake Chad attack
A second deadly attack this year by Boko Haram near Lake Chad was repelled by Chadian troops.
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China sees AIDS cases surge
A 14 percent increase in HIV victims means almost one million new diagnoses in the world's most populous nation.
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Palestine sues US at international court over Jerusalem embassy
Palestine files complaint with UN's International Court of Justice to return US embassy to Tel Aviv.
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Readers write: Examining Genghis Khan, fishing solution, the power of love, politics insight, solutions in France, reading back to front
The Aug. 17 Monitor Daily article “Russia takes a new look at an old enemy: Genghis Khan” was a very interesting history of an area rarely studied in classes. Take our geography quiz. What an outstanding statement the prime minister of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed, made, which was repeated in the July 30 edition of The Monitor’s View.
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Reporter's notebook: Watching as the world watches Trump
When President Trump this week regaled a fancy New York hotel ballroom full of journalists with a tale of how China’s leaders respect him for his “very, very large brain,” it rang a bell with me. Ah yes, I thought, as I observed the ripple of laughter the president’s remark elicited: Mr. Trump’s NATO summit press conference, just a few weeks earlier in Brussels. In that case, hundreds of mostly foreign journalists had assembled in a large press conference tent to glean any clues as to the US leader’s intentions for the transatlantic alliance.
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Macedonians vote on their country's name. Will they follow heart or head?
It is a display of muscular nationalism, built in the last decade, that has long antagonized Greece, Macedonia’s southern neighbor, which claims Alexander and many of the other historical figures as its own. For the Greeks, ancient Macedonia was Hellenistic and any attempt to muscle in on its past glories is cultural appropriation by modern-day Macedonians, most of whom are Slavs. In the most important vote in the short history of the former Yugoslav republic, which became independent in 1991, Macedonians will vote in a referendum on Sunday to change the name of their country to North Macedonia.
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One reporter's fascination with Siberia leaves readers asking for more
Fred Weir has the uncanny ability to help you understand the ideas and values shaping this complex, diverse, and fascinating country. Earlier this summer, Fred proposed a reporting trip to the eastern Russian republic of Buryatia. The goal: provide a rare glimpse into the historical, political, religious, and environmental culture of this mountainous region of Siberia. Five stories later, we were thrilled that Monitor subscribers devoured Fred’s Siberian Crossroads dispatches at an impressive clip. What’s it like to cover Russia when you’ve lived there for more than three decades.
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New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How do you decide when you've done enough work for the day?
Ask HN: How do you decide when you've done enough work for the day?
80 by zzaip | 36 comments on Hacker News.
I'm a relatively junior software engineer, a little over a year out from university, with a cushy remote job working for big-co. And I never know how much work to do on a given day. Right now, my daily rule of thumb is to try to have my butt in the seat for ~8 hours. I clock out at 6 and stay disciplined so I don't end up overworking as many remoters do. The main disadvantage of this strategy is that it just doesn't align with the reality of the job. Some days I work on something complex and want to work more hours, while others I'll knock out a few small things and want to call it early. Strategies I'd like to use but can't: - Show up and leave with my coworkers. We're a remote team, and have a few serious workaholics on the team (not to mention the issue of timezones). - Leave when I've done my tasks. This might work if we had actual sprints. Our reality is an endless stream bugs and features for us to work on before we launch our product, and we just grab tickets as they come. Hopefully this improves after launch. What do you do? I want to do enough work to feel good about myself, without burning out. I have very little supervision from management, my coworkers seem to respect and like me, and I am generally productive. Help me, HN.
80 by zzaip | 36 comments on Hacker News.
I'm a relatively junior software engineer, a little over a year out from university, with a cushy remote job working for big-co. And I never know how much work to do on a given day. Right now, my daily rule of thumb is to try to have my butt in the seat for ~8 hours. I clock out at 6 and stay disciplined so I don't end up overworking as many remoters do. The main disadvantage of this strategy is that it just doesn't align with the reality of the job. Some days I work on something complex and want to work more hours, while others I'll knock out a few small things and want to call it early. Strategies I'd like to use but can't: - Show up and leave with my coworkers. We're a remote team, and have a few serious workaholics on the team (not to mention the issue of timezones). - Leave when I've done my tasks. This might work if we had actual sprints. Our reality is an endless stream bugs and features for us to work on before we launch our product, and we just grab tickets as they come. Hopefully this improves after launch. What do you do? I want to do enough work to feel good about myself, without burning out. I have very little supervision from management, my coworkers seem to respect and like me, and I am generally productive. Help me, HN.
When Jay Rayner met Jeff Goldblum
One is a food critic, the other a Hollywood star … so what happened when they played jazz together?
Jeff Goldblum has huge hands. I know this because we are finger to finger at the keyboard of a Steinway grand piano in a glitzy central London hotel lobby, and he easily outspans my meaty paws. We are working our way through Herbie Hancock’s classic jazz tune Cantaloupe Island, the myriad heavy silver rings on his long fingers flashing under the lights as he takes a solo. If you want to get properly up close and personal with someone, play a piano duet with them. He hums the tune under his breath and rocks his shoulders into me as he plays. When it’s my turn to solo, he somehow manages to wrap his broad, 6ft 4in leather-jacketed frame around me to throw in some bass stabs down the bottom of the keyboard. He grins and laughs. Jeff Goldblum is in the room. And he’s enjoying himself.
No wonder. Goldblum the film star, the one who misplaced his mantra in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall, who gave us all nightmares as he gene-spliced himself with an insect in David Cronenberg’s The Fly and battled aliens in Independence Day, is about to release his first jazz piano album, and he can’t quite believe his luck. “I’m grateful for the whole damn thing,” he tells me.
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Bus chiefs warn route closures will hit the vulnerable
Firm tells MPs of need for national strategy to ease congestion and speed up journeys
A national bus strategy is urgently needed to bring an end to the closure of routes, many of which provide a vital community service and are crucial to easing congestion and reducing emissions, according to one of the country’s largest transport groups.
While the Department for Transport has clear strategies for rail, roads, aviation, cycling and walking, it does not have one for bus services, which play a “critical role in helping to boost economic growth – providing greater access to jobs and education, tackling air pollution and congestion, as well as addressing rising rates of loneliness and social exclusion”, says the Go-Ahead Group. It wants local authorities to be given targets for hitting bus journey times in a bid to get more people using buses, which account for six out of 10 of all public journeys.
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A graphic history of the rise of the Nazis
As nationalism and antisemitism rise again, new graphic novels on prewar and wartime Germany offer salutary lessons in how quickly politics can turn to poison. We spoke to their creators
In 1996, Jason Lutes, a cartoonist with just one slim graphic novel to his name, was leafing through a magazine in the house he shared in Seattle when his eye fell on an advertisement for a book of photographs about Bertolt Brecht’s Berlin. The ad briefly described the German capital in the 1920s, with its wild cabarets, seedy bars and jostling population of artists, architects, writers and philosophers, and in as long as it took him to read it, his life was changed. Lutes had never visited Berlin. He knew almost nothing about the city beyond what the copywriter at this university press had to say about it. But, no matter. Here it was in black and white: his next project.
The plan – it came to him in an instant – was to write an epic comic about the end of the Weimar republic and the beginnings of Nazism. It would be 600 pages long and he would publish it in three instalments. “It was quite a commitment to make at the age of 28,” he says, wryly. “At that point, admittedly, I only thought it would take me 14 years to do [in fact, the book took more than two decades to finish; the complete edition is published this month]. But even so, I don’t recognise the person who did that strange thing.”
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The suffering millions of Yemen find a chance of hope on Capitol Hill | Simon Tisdall
A House resolution and a vote on arms sales in the Senate could affect US backing for the Saudi-led coalition
The civil war in Yemen is one of those obscure conflicts that feels as though it has been going on for ever. In the space of little more than three years, the conflict has become what the UN and aid agencies agree is the world’s worst man-made humanitarian disaster, with 16,700 civilians killed or wounded, 8.4 million people facing famine, a nation torn apart and an economy destroyed.
The killing of children, hit by missiles and shells smashing into their homes and schools or stricken by disease and malnutrition, has come to symbolise Yemen’s war. The UN’s latest Children and Armed Conflict report found that 1,316 children were killed or maimed in 2017. Just over half died in air attacks by the western-backed, pro-government coalition, and many others at the hands of Houthi rebels.
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'Women are watching': Kavanaugh hearing focuses activists' anger
Supreme court drama has brought survivors of sexual assault and political organizers together. The next target is the midterms
The #MeToo movement has landed on the doorstep of one of the most venerated American institutions, the supreme court. In doing so, it has given women even more fuel for the fight.
On Thursday, in offices, bars and classrooms, Americans paused to watch Dr Christine Blasey Ford describe an alleged attempted rape to a Senate committee of 17 men and four women. They watched the man who denies the allegation, Brett Kavanaugh, respond with bristling anger.
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Trade talks stuck in neutral as Trump 'very unhappy' with Canadian negotiator
Trump says ‘we don’t like their representative very much’ – an apparent reference to foreign minister Chrystia Freeland
It was a passing remark which almost went unnoticed amid the bluster and hyperbole of Donald Trump’s rambling press conference this week, but the president has yet again cast doubt on the future of critical free trade talks between Canada and the US.
Despite a US-set deadline of 30 September to rewrite the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta), negotiations have by all accounts come to a standstill. The American trade delegation recently signed a revised free trade agreement with Mexico – but Canada has been left waiting for its own deal.
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Queensland bushfire: helicopters sent to rescue 12 people trapped by blaze
Fears for those in Blackdown Tableland national park as residents near Herberton in state’s far north warned of ‘life-threatening’ blaze
Rescue helicopters have been sent to Blackdown Tableland in central Queensland following reports 12 people are trapped by a bushfire.
The blaze was burning in the Blackdown Tableland national park, 150km west of Rockhampton, the Queensland Fire and Emergency Services and Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service said.
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The Kavanaugh hearing proves yet again the US hates women | Arwa Mahdawi
Republicans rallying around Kavanaugh shouldn’t expect women to accept that without a fight: patriarchy is on borrowed time
The Week in Patriarchy is a weekly roundup of what’s happening in the world of feminism and sexism. If you’re not already receiving it by email, make sure to subscribe.
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Why are Republicans ramming Brett Kavanaugh on to the supreme court?
Mitch McConnell has made it clear: Dr Christine Blasey Ford does not matter. This is about shaping the judiciary for years to come
They blocked Barack Obama’s pick for the supreme court. They threw in their lot with Donald Trump, a political neophyte and TV celebrity facing multiple sexual harassment allegations. It is entirely unsurprising that the Republican party seems ready to ram through the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh.
Related: Kavanaugh: Trump orders FBI inquiry after Republicans vote to advance nomination
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A look at what the FBI's Kavanaugh investigation will entail. https://t.co/MSmgLjuEui
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U.S., Mexico delay trade text for more time to land U.S.-Canada deal https://t.co/AmiGs0VxGo
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#UPDATE There is no official death toll from the powerful quake and tsunami which struck central Indonesia, but the head of the country's search and rescue agency Muhammad Syaugi tells #AFP local staff have found a large number of dead https://t.co/AHkjjyPIU3 pic.twitter.com/P6k5UCBJTr
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A leading Brazilian presidential candidate says he will only accept the results of October's elections as legitimate if he wins. https://t.co/y3s2cw4IfA
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F-35 fighter jet: Programme suffers first crash https://t.co/HHN1joyOfJ
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What’s the most rewarding part of being a @USAirForce weapons loader? This #ServiceMember has a few ideas. #KnowYourMil #CoolJobs pic.twitter.com/wRyv0PVgnU
— U.S. Dept of Defense (@DeptofDefense) September 28, 2018
The F-35's price has dropped below a big milestone and a Boeing/Saab team notches a major win. All this in about 60 seconds. #defensenews #defense #defence #F35 #Boeing #saab pic.twitter.com/38A8Btrkkc
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Nigeria ruling party nominates Buhari for re-election in 2019
Nigeria's ruling party has nominated President Muhammadu Buhari as its candidate to stand for re-election in February 2019, a spokesman for Buhari said on Saturday.
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Congo's opposition leaders warn of vote-rigging risk in presidential poll
Congo's opposition leaders warned thousands of supporters at a rally in the capital Kinshasa on Saturday of what they say are moves by the government to steal the presidential election in December, when Joseph Kabila is due to step down after 17 years.
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Italy president, central banker warn government over deficit plan
Italy's president and its central bank governor on Saturday warned that the country's debt must remain sustainable after the populist government unveiled plans to significantly raise deficit spending next year.
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Palestinians say seven killed as Israeli troops fire on Gaza protest
Israeli soldiers shot dead seven Palestinians, including two boys, who were among thousands of people who thronged to the fortified Gaza Strip border on Friday as part of weekly protests launched half a year ago, Gaza health officials said.
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Latest glitch for UK's May - botched party app lets public log in as cabinet ministers
British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party apologized on Saturday after releasing a phone app for the annual party conference that let members of the public log in as senior government ministers and view their personal details.
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Canada postpones U.N. address to focus on NAFTA
Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland postponed her country's 2018 address to the United Nations General Assembly so she could focus on ongoing trade talks with the United States, the government said on Saturday.
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North Korea says 'no way' will disarm unilaterally without trust
North Korea's foreign minister told the United Nations on Saturday continued sanctions were deepening its mistrust in the United States and there was no way the country would give up its nuclear weapons unilaterally under such circumstances.
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Cologne on lockdown as Erdogan wraps up ill-tempered visit to Germany
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan wrapped up an ill-tempered visit to Germany on Saturday with a visit to Cologne, where a security lockdown kept supporters and protesters away from a ceremony to open the country's largest mosque.
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U.S. pulls diplomats from Iraqi city, citing threats from Iran
The United States announced on Friday it will effectively close its consulate in the Iraqi city of Basra and relocate diplomatic personnel assigned there following increasing threats from Iran and Iran-backed militia, including rocket fire.
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Police clash with Catalan separatists ahead of independence vote anniversary
Six people were arrested in Barcelona on Saturday after pro-independence protesters clashed with riot police, and as thousands joined rival demonstrations to mark the first anniversary of Catalonia's polarizing vote on secession.
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Hundreds killed by Indonesian quake, tsunami, with toll seen rising
At least 384 people were killed, many swept away as giant waves crashed onto beaches, when a major earthquake and tsunami hit the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, authorities said on Saturday.
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Earthquakes and tsunamis in Indonesia
At least 384 people have been killed by a powerful earthquake and tsunami that hit the Indonesian city of Palu on Friday, officials said, with the death toll expected to rise.
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