May 18, 2018 - Articles

[umbertino]

One of Florence's greatest spectacles is about to begin

 

Each June, Florence Cathedral hosts a unique demonstration of nature's precision matched by human engineering: the passage of the midday sun through a gnomon set into the mighty dome

 

 

Jessica Phelan

news.italy@thelocal.com
jessicalphelan

6 June 2018

17:57 CEST+02:00

 

 

The dome of Florence Cathedral. Photo: Giuseppe Cacace/AFP

 

 

More pics & vid

 

https://www.thelocal.it/20180606/florence-duomo-gnomon-summer-solstice

 

 

 

 

 

Italian police detain man suspected of shooting (LEGAL) migrant worker dead

 

Police in southern Italy have detained a local man who they suspect of shooting and killing a West African immigrant while he collected scrap metal, in a case that has highlighted the dire conditions faced by the region's thousands of migrant workers

 

 

The Local

news@thelocal.it
@thelocalitaly

7 June 2018

12:20 CEST+02:00

 

 

A man protests after the death of Soumaila Sacko (pictured), a migrant worker in Calabria

Photo: Gianluca Chininea/AFP

 

 

 

https://www.thelocal.it/20180607/italy-soumaila-sacko-migrant-dead-suspect-detained

 

 

 

 

 

 

Italian police seize 10 tonnes of hashish on high seas

 

Italian agents have seized over 10 tonnes of cannabis resin worth up to €20 million in a dramatic high-seas operation, police said on Thursday

 

 

AFP

news@thelocal.it
@thelocalitaly

7 June 2018

10:11 CEST+02:00

 

 

 

https://www.thelocal.it/20180607/italian-police-seize-10-tonnes-of-hashish-on-high-seas

 

 

 

 

 

Inside the slum that houses southern Italy's migrant workforce

 

Plastic huts, rubbish, exhausting days under the blistering sun, violence... The San Ferdinando camp in southern Italy couldn't be further from the "good times" for migrants, referred to by Italy's new nationalist interior minister Matteo Salvini ( of far-right party League)

 

 

 

Tents at the San Ferdinando camp in Calabria. Photo: Gianluca Chininea/AFP

 

 

 

 

https://www.thelocal.it/20180607/inside-san-ferdinando-slum-calabria-italy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Italian mafia is spreading abroad, investigator warns

 

Italy's anti-mafia chief warned Tuesday that the mafia is not just an Italian problem but a "globalizing" phenomenon whose influence is seeping into several European countries

 

 

AFP

news@thelocal.it
@thelocalitaly

6 June 2018

10:22 CEST+02:00

 

 

 

People in Slovakia protest the murder of a journalist who investigated ties between politicians and the Italian mafia. Photo: Vladimir Simicek/AFP

 

 

 

https://www.thelocal.it/20180606/italian-mafia-is-spreading-abroad-investigator-warns

 

 

 

 

 

 

Archaeologists uncover remains of Pompeii victim 'decapitated while trying to flee'

 

Archaeologists working at Pompeii have discovered the remains of a man who met a grisly end while trying to flee the deadly eruption

 

 

The Local

news@thelocal.it
@thelocalitaly

29 May 2018

12:18 CEST+02:00

 

 

 

Photo: Pompeii Archaeological Park/Italian Culture Ministry

 

 

 

https://www.thelocal.it/20180529/pompeii-archaeologists-skeleton-disabled-eruption-victim

 

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii

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Exploring the Sassi (rocks) di (of) Matera, southern Italy's ancient cave dwellings

 

In the southern region of Basilicata lies Matera, a town nestled in a small canyon where humans have lived for millennia in cave dwellings. Writer Dave Thurmond explains why Matera is one of the most hauntingly beautiful places he's visited in Italy

 

 

7 March 2017

08:28 CET+01:00

 

Matera: Hauntingly beautiful. Photo: Sandy Thurmond

 

 

 

More pics

 

https://www.thelocal.it/20170307/exploring-sassi-matera-caves-basilicata-travel

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8 June

Anthony Bourdain, TV chef and travel host, found dead aged 61

 

CNN, which aired Bourdain’s show Parts Unknown, confirmed his death and said the cause was suicide

 

Edward Helmore in New York and agencies

Fri 8 Jun 2018 13.58 BST

 

 

 

Anthony Bourdain was working in France on an upcoming episode of his show

Photograph: Andy Kropa/Invision/AP

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/08/anthony-bourdain-chef-found-dead-61

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The unspeakable truth about slavery in Mauritania

 

For all the government’s denials, slavery persists in Mauritania. In a rare insight into the lives of the tens of thousands of people affected, photojournalist Seif Kousmate spent a month photographing and interviewing current and former slaves. While there, he was arrested and imprisoned by police, who confiscated his memory cards, phone and laptop

 

 

Fri 8 Jun 2018 07.00 BST

 

 

 

In 1981, Mauritania ( north-west Africa) made slavery illegal, the last country in the world to do so..........

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/jun/08/the-unspeakable-truth-about-slavery-in-mauritania

 

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritania

 

 

 

 

 

'I couldn't even scream': survival and abuse inseparable for Kabul children

 

Street children are forced to brave violent sexual predators in the Afghan capital as they struggle to earn money

 

Pariwash Gouhari in Kabul

Thu 7 Jun 2018 09.00 BST

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/jun/07/couldnt-even-scream-survival-abuse-inseparable-kabul-children

Edited June 8, 2018 by umbertino

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EU tech czar Margrethe Vestager: 'Social media could deactivate democracy'

 

Competition regulator eschews a personal Facebook account ‘to give her children free space’

 

 

Jennifer Rankin in Brussels

Fri 8 Jun 2018 15.31 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/08/margrethe-vestager-eu-tech-regulator-i-fear-social-media-will-deactivate-democracy

 

 

 

Priest finds €36,000 ($42,382) stashed in confessional box at Rome church

 

Police suspect money either left by generous benefactor or someone regretting illicit gains

 

 

Angela Giuffrida in Rome

Fri 8 Jun 2018 11.52 BST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/08/priest-finds-36000-stashed-confessional-box-rome-church

 

 

 

 

 

Gena Turgel, Holocaust survivor known as Bride of Belsen, dies

 

Tributes paid to 95-year-old ‘shining light’ who tended to a dying Anne Frank and survived Nazi death camps

 

 

Fri 8 Jun 2018 16.55 BST

Harriet Sherwood

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/08/gena-turgel-holocaust-survivor-bride-belsen-dies

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen-Belsen_concentration_camp

 

 

 

 

 

Facebook advertises for 'fake news' fact checkers

 

Firm changes initial ad for ‘news credibility specialists’ to ‘news publisher specialists’

 

 

Fri 8 Jun 2018 11.44 BST

By  Alex Hern

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/08/facebook-advertises-for-fake-news-fact-checkers

 

 

 

 

 

The best way to save the planet? Drop meat and dairy

 

Farming livestock for food threatens all life on earth, and ‘free-range’ steak is the worst of all

 

 

Fri 8 Jun 2018 06.00 BST Last modified on Fri 8 Jun 2018 15.36 BST

By  George Monbiot

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/08/save-planet-meat-dairy-livestock-food-free-range-steak

 

 

 

 

 

Former FBI agent Ali Soufan: ‘Isis is not over – it will take a different shape’

 

He spent eight years in counter-terrorism before his objection to the US’s use of torture led to his departure. Now, he says, the west must learn from its mistakes: ‘If we don’t, we will suffer for years to come’

 

 

Fri 8 Jun 2018 15.53 BST

by Emine Saner. Photograph by Antonio Olmos

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/08/former-fbi-agent-ali-soufan-isis-is-not-over-it-will-take-a-different-shape

 

 

 

 

 

Edward Snowden: 'The people are still powerless, but now they're aware'

 

Five years after historic NSA leaks, whistleblower tells the Guardian he has no regrets

 

 

Mon 4 Jun 2018 18.00 BST Last modified on Tue 5 Jun 2018 09.46 BST

By Ewen MacAskill and Alex Hern

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/04/edward-snowden-people-still-powerless-but-aware

 

 

[bostonangler]

Good stuff Umbertino.. Thanks and have a great weekend.

 

B/A

[umbertino]

‘An American Soldier’: New opera asks troubling questions about citizenship

 

June 8, 2018 9:50 AM CDT By Eric A. Gordon

 

 

 

 

Pvt. Denny Chen. | U.S. Army / Public Domain

 

 

 

 

http://www.peoplesworld.org/article/an-american-solider-new-opera-asks-troubling-questions-about-citizenship/

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Good stuff Umbertino.. Thanks and have a great weekend.

 

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Thanks B/A.....Same to you and yours....Ciao

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9 June

Miami woman bitten and likely killed by alligator, officials say

 

Florida woman was identified from evidence collected from a necropsy after she disappeared while walking her dogs by a lake

 

Associated Press

Sat 9 Jun 2018 02.23 BST Last modified on Sat 9 Jun 2018 12.07 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/09/miami-woman-bitten-and-likely-killed-by-alligator-officials-confirm

 

 

 

 

 

One US soldier killed and four wounded in Somalia attack

 

Military says four wounded Americans now in Kenya

 

Al-Shabaab extremist group claims responsibility

 

Associated Press in Mogadishu

Sat 9 Jun 2018 14.25 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/09/us-soldier-killed-four-wounded-somalia

 

 

 

 

 

Pope Francis tells oil bosses world must reduce fossil fuel use

 

Pontiff says clean energy is needed as climate change risks destroying humanity

 

Reuters in Vatican City

Sat 9 Jun 2018 13.36 BST

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/09/pope-francis-tells-oil-bosses-world-must-wean-itself-off-fossil-fuels

 

 

 

'I don’t know where my family is': Cameroon's refugees flee brutality

 

Ruthless violence between francophone state forces and English-speaking separatists has forced tens of thousands of Cameroonians into Nigeria, splintering families and leaving many people sleeping rough, without access to staples such as food, clothing and education

 

 

Thu 7 Jun 2018 12.28 BST

Photographs: Sam Phelps/Caritas. Interviews: Harriet Paterson/Caritas

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/jun/07/cameroon-refugees-flee-ruthless-violence-nigeria

 

 

 

 

Apple inches closer to $1tn mark as Wall Street tech panic dissipates

 

Tech’s stock market dominance is no longer a Wall Street fear as Apple is close to becoming first company valued at $1tn

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/09/apple-first-company-valued-at-1-trillion

 

 

 

 

 

Taliban announces three-day ceasefire over Eid

 

Suspension of hostilities is first at end of Ramadan since 2001 but operations against ‘foreign occupiers’ will continue

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/09/taliban-announces-three-day-ceasefire-over-eid

 

 

 

 

 

Portrait of a steel town: where others fear a trade war, Coatesville sees hope

 

Trump’s tariffs on steel imports have alarmed allies from Tokyo to London but could it reverse the decline of a Pennsylvania town that has armor-plated the US military for generations?

 

 

Sat 9 Jun 2018 11.00 BST

by Tom McCarthy in Coatesville, Pennsylvania

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/09/portrait-of-a-steel-town-coatesville-pennsylvania-tariffs

 

 

 

 

 

Facebook shared user details with firms after cutting developers' access

 

Wall Street Journal details access to data during 2015

 

Report is latest privacy-related embarrassment for tech giant

 

 

Associated Press in New York

Sat 9 Jun 2018 13.32 BST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/09/facebook-shared-user-details-firms-developers-access-cut-off

 

 

 

 

 

Our plastic pollution crisis is too big for recycling to fix

 

Recycling alone will never stem the flow of plastics into our ocean. We must address the problem at the source

 

 

Sat 9 Jun 2018 11.00 BST Last modified on Sat 9 Jun 2018 11.06 BST

By  Annie Leonard

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/09/recycling-plastic-crisis-oceans-pollution-corporate-responsibility

 

 

 

 

 

 

US gig economy: data shows 16m people in 'contingent or alternative' work

 

Government data shows scale of freelance or temporary economy as American workers try to navigate changing work environment

 

 

Caleb Gayle in New York

Thu 7 Jun 2018 16.22 BST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jun/07/america-gig-economy-work-bureau-labor-statistics

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Honduran border crosser separated from family kills himself in Texas jail

 

Death occurs despite frequent monitoring and camera in cell

 

Marco Antonio Muñoz died after separation from wife and son

 

Associated Press in Rio Grande City, Texas

Sun 10 Jun 2018 18.03 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/10/honduran-border-crosser-separated-from-family-kills-himself-in-texas-jail

 

 

 

 

 

Thousands march for LGBT rights in pride parades across Europe

 

Marchers protest against discrimination in Italy, Poland and Latvia

 

Agence France-Presse

Sun 10 Jun 2018 03.08 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/10/thousands-march-for-lgbt-rights-in-pride-parades-across-europe

 

 

 

 

 

Judge temporarily blocks deportation of New York pizza shop worker held by Ice

 

Pablo Villavicencio picked up by Ice after delivery to army base

 

Ecuadorian’s wife and two young children are American

 

 

Associated Press in New York

Sun 10 Jun 2018 12.38 BST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/10/judge-blocks-deportation-new-york-pizza-worker-army-delivery

 

 

 

 

 

Korean hiker shares survival story after rescue from Australian bush

 

Joohee Han says she dreamed about food and her family after she fell into deep ravine

 

 

Agence France-Presse in Sydney

Sun 10 Jun 2018 15.34 BST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jun/10/joohee-han-korean-hiker-survival-story-australian-bush

 

 

 

 

 

Why do so many Mormons back Trump? Some say it's about the land

 

Trump’s Utah campaign chief shrugs off Stormy Daniels and praises cuts to parks: ‘The land belongs more to me than you’

 

 

Jeremy Miller in Salt Lake City

Sun 10 Jun 2018 11.00 BST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/10/utah-public-lands-mormons-national-parks-trump

 

 

 

 

 

3,000-year-old sculpture leaves researchers scratching their heads

 

Exquisite Old Testament-era head of a king found in Israel but subject’s identity a mystery

 

Associated Press

Sun 10 Jun 2018 05.52 BST Last modified on Sun 10 Jun 2018 17.02 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jun/10/3000-year-old-sculpture-leaves-researchers-scratching-their-heads

 

 

 

 

 

Denmark swings right on immigration – and Muslims feel besieged

 

After a burqa ban, hardline rhetoric has entered the mainstream. In one coastal town, attitudes seem increasingly polarised

 

 

Richard Orange, Holbaek

Sun 10 Jun 2018 10.00 BST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/10/denmark-swings-right-immigration-muslims-besieged-holbaek

 

 

 

 

 

 

Underpaid and exhausted: the human cost of your Kindle

 

In the Chinese city of Hengyang, we find a fatigued, disposable workforce assembling gadgets for Amazon, owned by the world’s richest man

 

 

Sat 9 Jun 2018 22.11 BST

by Gethin Chamberlain in Hengyang, China

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/09/human-cost-kindle-amazon-china-foxconn-jeff-bezos

 

 

 

 

 

Six face jail after illegal occupation of Spanish village of Fraguas

 

Castilla-La Mancha high court finds collective unlawfully occupied abandoned village

 

 

Sun 10 Jun 2018 13.43 BST

Sam Jones in Madrid

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/10/spanish-abandoned-village-fraguas-occupation-six-face-jail

 

 

 

They brought an abandoned village back to life.....Now they face jail....That's stupid and blind

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is what it feels like to be black in white spaces

 

Black people experience discrimination every day – it’s knowledge inaccessible to white people and, when confronted with it, most are incredulous

 

 

Sat 9 Jun 2018 12.00 BST Last modified on Sat 9 Jun 2018 12.12 BST

By  Elijah Anderson

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/09/everyday-racism-america-black-white-spaces

 

Edited June 10, 2018 by umbertino

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11 June

 

Bitcoin price plunges after cryptocurrency exchange is hacked

 

Security fears rise as South Korea’s Coincheck loses about £28m ($37.51M) of virtual currency

 

Julia Kollewe

Mon 11 Jun 2018 15.06 BST First published on Mon 11 Jun 2018 09.40 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/11/bitcoin-price-cryptocurrency-hacked-south-korea-coincheck

 

 

 

 

 

 

Missing US air force officer found in California after 35 years

 

Capt William Howard Hughes had top security clearance

 

Ex-officer charged with desertion after arrest in fraud inquiry

 

 

Associated Press in Albuquerque, New Mexico

Mon 11 Jun 2018 12.46 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/11/missing-us-air-force-officer-california

 

 

 

 

‘I could have ended up dead’: why women’s refuges face a fatal new threat

 

A proposed change to funding means vulnerable women would not be able to pay for refuge placements with their housing benefit. It is the single biggest threat these shelters have ever faced

 

 

Ellie Violet Bramley

Mon 11 Jun 2018 13.00 BST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jun/11/i-could-have-ended-up-dead-why-womens-refuges-face-a-fatal-new-threat

 

 

 

 

 

 

My trans child needs to be himself – I understand that now

 

When my son told me he was a boy, I worried he wasn’t sure. Then a community opened my eyes to the support he deserves

 

 

Mon 11 Jun 2018 10.30 BST Last modified on Mon 11 Jun 2018 12.47 BST

Molly Mulready

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/11/trans-child-be-himself-understand-community

 

 

 

 

 

Seven ways to minimise the risk of having a stroke

 

Knowing the signs and seeking early treatment can lessen damage caused by a stroke, or prevent them altogether. Here are steps you can take, from monitoring your blood pressure to keeping cholesterol in check

 

 

Mon 11 Jun 2018 07.00 BST

Ann Robinson

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jun/11/seven-ways-to-minimise-the-risk-of-having-a-stroke

 

 

 

 

 

 

Killer robots will only exist if we are stupid enough to let them

 

As long as humans are sensible when they create the operating programs, robots will bring enormous benefits to humanity, says expert

 

 

Mon 11 Jun 2018 11.00 BST

Hannah Devlin

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/11/killer-robots-will-only-exist-if-we-are-stupid-enough-to-let-them

 

 

 

 

 

Converting bad fat to good fat: a new means of tackling obesity

 

Scientists develop a method of turning white fat to brown fat, which burns calories faster

 

 

Sun 10 Jun 2018 23.28 BST

Hannah Devlin Science correspondent

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/10/converting-bad-fat-to-good-fat-a-new-means-of-tackling-obesity

 

 

 

 

 

Antibiotic resistance could be countered by anti-bacterial viruses

 

Research found some patients had lower E coli levels after being given cocktail of ‘phages’

 

 

Sun 10 Jun 2018 23.20 BST

Nicola Davis

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/10/antibiotic-resistance-could-be-countered-by-anti-bacterial-viruses

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chile sexual abuse scandal: pope accepts resignations of bishops

 

Pontiff says victims of Father Fernando Karadima will ‘never again’ be ignored

 

 

Mon 11 Jun 2018 14.29 BST

Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/11/pope-francis-chile-bishops-sexual-abuse-scandal

 

 

 

 

 

Pennsylvania abuse survivor calls on Pope Francis to intervene

 

State attorney general to release 884-page report detailing decades of sexual abuse and cover-ups by the church

 

 

Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Rome

Mon 11 Jun 2018 11.10 BST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/11/pennsylvania-catholic-church-abuse-allegations-report

 

 

 

 

 

 

World trade has fought its way back to health. These tensions risk it all

 

Even anti-trade rhetoric is enough to threaten the global recovery. Trade sanctions themselves would be disastrous

 

 

Sun 10 Jun 2018 09.00 BST Last modified on Mon 11 Jun 2018 11.36 BST

By  Roberto Azevêdo

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/10/world-trade-tensions-rhetoric-sanctions-global

[umbertino]

ICE Came for a Tennessee Town’s
Immigrants. The Town Fought Back

 

Agents conducted one of the biggest workplace raids since President Trump announced a crackdown on illegal immigration, detaining 97 workers in Morristown. But for residents, these workers were their neighbors

 

 

By MIRIAM JORDAN JUNE 8, 2018

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/11/us/tennessee-immigration-trump.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

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12 June

 

United Airlines flight diverted to Ireland after 'bomb message' found onboard

 

Flight UA 971 from Rome to Chicago landed at Shannon airport as passengers face searches and, reportedly, handwriting checks

 

Reuters in New York

Mon 11 Jun 2018 19.14 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jun/11/united-airlines-flight-ua971-diverted-security-concern-ireland

 

 

 

 

Tim Miller can find almost anyone. Can he find his daughter’s killer?

 

A man in Texas helps police find missing people. He’s spent three decades working on the hardest, coldest case of all: his daughter’s murder. Has he finally solved it?

 

 

Tue 12 Jun 2018 11.00 BST

by J Oliver Conroy Photographs: Max Burkhalter for the Guardian

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/12/tim-miller-can-find-almost-anyone-can-he-find-his-daughters-killer

 

 

 

 

 

 

Giant African baobab trees die suddenly after thousands of years

 

Demise of four out of 13 of the ancient landmarks linked to climate change by researchers

 

 

Agence France-Presse

Mon 11 Jun 2018 23.13 BST

 

 

 

 

One baobab tree has been estimated to be 2,500 years old

Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/11/giant-african-baobab-trees-die-suddenly-after-thousands-of-years

[umbertino]

Bode Miller's 19-month-old daughter drowned in swimming pool, officials say

 

Emeline Miller died at an Orange county hospital on Sunday, the day after paramedics tried unsuccessfully to revive her

 

 

Associated Press in Los Angeles

Tue 12 Jun 2018 13.22 BST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/12/bode-miller-daughter-drowned-swimming-pool

 

 

 

 

 

Neal E Boyd, opera singer who won America's Got Talent, dies aged 42

 

Singer who was inspired by the Three Tenors and won the contest in 2008 suffered heart and kidney failure

 

 

Tue 12 Jun 2018 09.00 BST

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jun/12/neal-e-boyd-opera-singer-americas-got-talent-dies

 

 

 

 

 

'La Barbie': cocaine kingpin sentenced to 50 years for drug trafficking

 

Texas-born Edgar Valdez Villarreal ordered to forfeit $192m after pleading guilty to conspiring to import and distribute drugs from Mexico

 

 

Associated Press in Atlanta

Mon 11 Jun 2018 19.01 BST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/11/la-barbie-cocaine-kingpin-sentenced-to-50-years-for-drug-trafficking

[umbertino]

 

13 June

 

Meet Erik Finman, the teenage bitcoin millionaire

 

Finman used his fortune to fund an educational business – and he’s not as awful as he seems on Instagram

 

 

Wed 13 Jun 2018 14.06 BST Last modified on Wed 13 Jun 2018 16.02 BST

By  Arwa Mahdawi

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/13/meet-erik-finman-the-teenage-bitcoin-millionaire

 

 

 

 

 

 

British overseas territories in talks to keep tax haven secrecy

 

UK plan to impose public registers of share ownership sparked protests and calls for constitutional separation

 

 

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Wed 13 Jun 2018 08.36 BST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/13/british-overseas-territories-in-talks-to-keep-tax-haven-secrecy

 

 

 

 

 

Young more religious than old in only two countries in world

 

Analysis of 106 nations finds Ghana and Georgia are only places where under-40s are more religious than older compatriots

 

 

Wed 13 Jun 2018 15.00 BST

Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/13/young-more-religious-than-old-in-only-two-countries-in-world

 

 

 

 

 

Briton and Australian found dead on Ericeira beach, in Portugal

 

Couple suspected to have fallen from 30-metre (90 ft.) high wall while taking photographs, says rescue service

 

 

Agence France-Presse

Wed 13 Jun 2018 07.00 BST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/13/australian-couple-fall-to-their-death-at-portugese-beach-while-trying-to-take-selfie

 

 

 

 

 

 

Populist talkshows fuel rise of far right, German TV bosses told

 

Political shows’ negative focus on Islam erodes social cohesion, says cultural council

 

 

Kate Connolly in Berlin

Wed 13 Jun 2018 05.00 BST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/13/populist-talkshows-fuel-rise-of-far-right-german-tv-bosses-told

[umbertino]

Security row over EU Galileo satellite project as Britain is shut out

 

Fears over impact on Brexit talks with UK taxpayers having already contributed £1bn ($1.34B)

 

Daniel Boffey in Brussels

Wed 13 Jun 2018 17.01 BST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/13/eu-member-states-block-uks-access-to-galileo-satellite-programme-after-brexit

 

 

 

 

 

Antarctic ice melting faster than ever, studies show

 

Rate of melt has accelerated threefold in last five years and could contribute 25cm to sea-level rises without urgent action

 

Matthew Taylor

Wed 13 Jun 2018 18.00 BST Last modified on Wed 13 Jun 2018 21.13 BST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/13/antarctic-ice-melting-faster-than-ever-studies-show

 

 

 

 

 

UK: 'Neo-Nazi' murder plot: disillusioned man blew whistle, jury told

 

Ex-National Action member gives evidence on alleged plot to kill MP Rosie Cooper

 

 

Wed 13 Jun 2018 17.35 BST

Nadia Khomami

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/13/neo-nazi-plot-disillusioned-man-blew-whistle-jury-told

 

 

 

 

 

 

Daphne Caruana Galizia murder: officials 'seeking to stall' inquiry

 

Top EU official flies to Malta as authorities accused of seeking to delay attempts to find those behind journalist’s killing

 

 

Daniel Boffey in Brussels

Wed 13 Jun 2018 16.16 BST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/13/daphne-caruana-galizia-top-eu-official-flies-to-malta

 

 

 

 

 

'Much nicer than expected': World Cup fans size up modern Moscow

 

Russian capital has changed perhaps more than any other European city in recent years

 

 

Shaun Walker in Moscow

Wed 13 Jun 2018 05.00 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/13/much-nicer-than-expected-world-cup-fans-size-up-modern-moscow

 

 

 

‘My body, my choice’: Argentina moves closer to legal abortion with key vote

 

The chamber of deputies is voting on a crucial bill that would legalise abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy

 

 

Elizabeth Sulis Kim

Wed 13 Jun 2018 07.00 BST Last modified on Wed 13 Jun 2018 08.55 BST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/jun/13/my-body-my-choice-argentina-moves-closer-to-legal-abortion-with-key-vote

 

 

 

 

 

UK: Why are black people desirable as entertainment in clubs but not as clientele?

 

Claims that Drama, which has previously hosted Rihanna and Drake, charged black women double to get in are being investigated

 

 

Wed 13 Jun 2018 16.12 BST Last modified on Wed 13 Jun 2018 21.21 BST

Kimberly McIntosh

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/13/black-people-clubs-drama-rihanna-drake

 

 

 

 

 

 

My family knew all about the iron curtain: it’s vital to protect the right to speak out

 

From Nazi book-burning to Soviet-era oppression, the history of Europe’s public spaces shows the danger of silencing protest

 

 

Wed 30 May 2018 06.00 BST Last modified on Thu 31 May 2018 09.37 BST

By  Sofi Oksanen

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/30/iron-curtain-right-to-speak-out-europe-silencing-protest

 

 

 

 

 

Opioid lawsuit targets rich family behind drug that fueled US crisis

 

Sackler family, which owns Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, accused of fueling addiction while boosting profits

 

 

Tue 12 Jun 2018 23.38 BST

Joanna Walters and agencies

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/12/massachusetts-opioid-lawsuit-sackler-family-oxycontin

[umbertino]

 

14 June

 

US Navy saves 40 off the coast of Libya

 

The US Military Sealift Command-operated expeditionary fast transport ship USNS Trenton rescued 40 people in the Mediterranean Sea, the US Navy has announced

 

 

US Navy file photo of USNS Trenton

 

 

 

 

https://navaltoday.com/2018/06/13/us-navy-saves-40-off-the-coast-of-lybia/

 

 

 

Commendable humanitarian  action......I say  THANKS US Navy

 

 

 

 

 

 

[bostonangler]

3 minutes ago, umbertino said:

Commendable humanitarian  action......I say  THANKS US Navy

 

Wow Umbertino you might actually get a few greenies for this one...LOL

 

B/A

[umbertino]

2 minutes ago, bostonangler said:

 

Wow Umbertino you might actually get a few greenies for this one...LOL

 

B/A

 

Getting thrilled at the thought......Lol.....

 

Best, B/A

Edited June 14, 2018 by umbertino

[umbertino]

Tesla workers say they pay the price for Elon Musk's big promises

 

The CEO is known for outsized claims and ambitious goals. But numerous factory workers say he doesn’t follow through – and that his leadership sets a troubling tone

 

 

Thu 14 Jun 2018 07.29 BST

by Julia Carrie Wong in San Francisco

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/13/tesla-workers-pay-price-elon-musk-failed-promises

 

 

 

 

 

Four men jailed over deaths of 71 migrants locked in lorry

 

Members of people-smuggling gang sentenced to 25 years each over deaths of men, women and children in 2015

 

Agencies in Kecskemét

Thu 14 Jun 2018 14.25 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/14/people-smuggling-gang-jailed-over-hungary-migrant-lorry-deaths

 

 

 

Don't have sex with men from 'different race' during World Cup, warns Russian politician

 

Tamara Pletnyova warns Russian women not to have sex with non-white men as their children may face discrimination

 

Reuters

Thu 14 Jun 2018 01.36 BST Last modified on Thu 14 Jun 2018 11.16 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jun/14/dont-have-sex-with-men-from-different-race-during-world-cup-warns-russian-politician

 

 

No different than Nazi Germany....Congrats !

 

 

 

 

 

Mars mega-storm threatens Nasa rover after 14-year mission

 

Experts have no idea what the landscape, or the Opportunity, will look like after storm raging across a quarter of the planet

 

Associated Press

Thu 14 Jun 2018 01.39 BST Last modified on Thu 14 Jun 2018 02.54 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jun/14/mars-storm-nasa-rover-opportunity

 

 

 

 

 

Italian groping case dropped because alleged victim was 'too old to be scared'

 

Guardian obtains prosecutors’ report into harassment case against former football chief Carlo Tavecchio

 

 

Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo and Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Rome

Thu 14 Jun 2018 12.04 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/14/italy-groping-case-carlo-tavecchio-prosecutors-report

 

 

 

That's  plain surreal......No comment....Just shame

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Split California into three states? Billionaire's eccentric idea will get a vote

 

A proposal to divide the state in thirds will appear on the November 2018 ballot – but is it more than a stunt?

 

 

Wed 13 Jun 2018 22.42 BST

Julia Carrie Wong in San Francisco

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/13/california-split-into-three-states-proposal-vote-tim-draper

 

 

 

 

 

UK recalls Cayman Islands governor over unspecified allegations

 

Anwar Choudhury temporarily withdrawn from Caribbean post while complaints are investigated

 

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Thu 14 Jun 2018 15.09 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/14/cayman-islands-governor-recalled-anwar-choudhury

 

 

 

 

 

Doxxing, assault, death threats: the new dangers facing US journalists covering extremism

 

As violent street protests between the far right and anti-fascists become standard fare, rightwingers see the press as a threat – and aren’t shy to act on it

 

 

Thu 14 Jun 2018 15.41 BST

By  Jason Wilson

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/14/doxxing-assault-death-threats-the-new-dangers-facing-us-journalists-covering-extremism

 

 

 

 

 

 

UK: The far right is organised and growing. Those Nazi salutes are serious

 

Tommy Robinson supporters are drawing strength from racist movements in Europe and the persistent popularity of Donald Trump

 

Thu 14 Jun 2018 15.46 BST Last modified on Thu 14 Jun 2018 15.47 BST

By  Claude Moraes

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/14/far-right-nazi-tommy-robinson-racist-movements-donald-trump

 

 

 

 

 

Shoppers being misled by labels that claim food is 'artisanal' or homemade

 

Manufacturers too often make false claims and use deceptive pictures on labels, and regulation should be toughened up, says EU consumer champion

 

Sarah Boseley

Thu 14 Jun 2018 06.00 BST Last modified on Thu 14 Jun 2018 13.15 BST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/jun/14/making-an-honest-crust-consumers-routinely-conned-by-food-labels

 

 

 

 

 

Sylvester Stallone under investigation by police sex crimes team

 

Actor ‘categorically denies’ allegations of historical sexual misconduct being reviewed by Los Angeles prosecutors

 

Staff and agencies

Thu 14 Jun 2018 10.24 BST Last modified on Thu 14 Jun 2018 15.03 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jun/14/sylvester-stallone-under-investigation-by-police-sex-crimes-team

[umbertino]

 

15 June

 

Epileptic boy 'in life-threatening state' after cannabis oil seized

 

Mother of Billy Caldwell says he has been admitted to hospital due to seizures, after customs agents took his medicine

 

 

Fri 15 Jun 2018 20.26 BST

Mattha Busby

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jun/15/mothers-plea-for-uk-to-legalise-cannabis-oil-charlotte-caldwell-billy

 

 

 

 

Members of all-female terror cell jailed over London knife plot

 

Rizlaine Boular sentenced to life as her mother, Mina Dich, gets six years and nine months

 

 

Fri 15 Jun 2018 18.04 BST

Nadia Khomami

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/15/all-female-terror-cell-rizlaine-boular-mina-dich-jailed-over-london-knife-plot

 

 

 

 

 

Stephen Hawking's ashes interred at Westminster Abbey

 

Luminaries from academia and science pay tribute to the late physicist’s incredible legacy

 

Fri 15 Jun 2018 17.30 BST Last modified on Fri 15 Jun 2018 22.01 BST

Emine Saner

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jun/15/stephen-hawking-ashes-interred-westminster-abbey

 

 

 

 

 

Harvard sued for alleged discrimination against Asian American applicants

 

Group claims admissions process weighed against Asian Americans while university filed brief denying discrimination

 

Arwa Mahdawi and agencies

Fri 15 Jun 2018 22.19 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jun/15/harvard-sued-discrimination-against-asian-americans

 

 

 

 

 

How to spot a perfect fake: the world’s top art forgery detective

 

Forgeries have got so good – and so costly – that Sotheby’s has brought in its own in-house fraud-busting expert

 

 

Fri 15 Jun 2018 06.00 BST

By Samanth Subramanian

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jun/15/how-to-spot-a-perfect-fake-the-worlds-top-art-forgery-detective

 

 

 

 

Florida rollercoaster derails hurling two riders 34ft to ground

 

Riders suffer traumatic injuries as front car jumps rail

 

Firefighters rescue two others left dangling from ride

 

Associated Press in Daytona Beach, Florida

Fri 15 Jun 2018 16.27 BST

 

 

Vid

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/15/florida-rollercoaster-derails-two-injured

 

 

 

 

 

Chinese defend Einstein's portrait of their people as 'filthy' and 'obtuse'

 

Scientist’s travel diaries from 1920s revealed racist attitudes including describing people who were ‘spiritless’

 

Lily Kuo

Fri 15 Jun 2018 06.13 BST Last modified on Fri 15 Jun 2018 22.00 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/15/chinese-defend-einsteins-diaries-filthy-obtuse

 

 

 

 

 

Australian university students dress as Ku Klux Klan and in blackface

 

Charles Sturt University investigates ‘politically incorrect’ themed student party

 

 

Fri 15 Jun 2018 03.48 BST

Naaman Zhou

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/15/australian-university-students-dress-as-ku-klux-klan-and-in-blackface

 

 

 

 

 

French police cut soles off migrant children's shoes, claims Oxfam

 

Charity accuses authorities of detaining minors without food before illegally returning them to Italy

 

Angela Giuffrida in Rome

Thu 14 Jun 2018 23.01 BST

 

 

French police at an Italian train station. Border agents have been accused of intimidating children as young as 12

Photograph: Piero Cruciatti/AFP/Getty Images

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/14/french-border-police-accused-of-cutting-soles-off-migrant-childrens-shoes

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nato: women are being drawn into terrorism in return for food and water

 

Some terrorist groups meet the needs of desperate women better than those battling extremism, says Nato official

 

 

Fri 15 Jun 2018 12.25 BST

Jane Dudman

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/2018/jun/15/nato-terrorist-groups-women-food-water

 

 

 

 

 

No, Facebook, I won’t be back. I’ve seen the dangers of habitual sharing

 

Emerging from the grey brain-state felt like a restoration of the natural order, where memories are allowed to fade

 

 

Fri 15 Jun 2018 08.00 BST Last modified on Fri 15 Jun 2018 17.49 BST

By  Emma Brockes

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/15/facebook-dangers-habitual-sharing

 

 

 

 

 

Looking back at Standing Rock – in pictures

 

Photographer Josué Rivas spent seven months documenting the Native American community that came together to protest against the controversial Dakota pipeline........

 

 

Fri 15 Jun 2018 10.41 BST

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2018/jun/15/looking-back-at-standing-rock-in-pictures

[umbertino]

Kansas police duo shot dead by prisoner on journey between court and jail

 

Officials said inmate may have used one of officers’ own guns to shoot Theresa King and Patrick Rohrer during a struggle

 

Associated Press in Kansas City, Kansas

Sat 16 Jun 2018 18.59 BST

 

 

Theresa King and Patrick Rohrer. A candlelight vigil for the deputies was set to be held at 8pm on Sunday

Photograph: AP

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/16/kansas-police-officers-shot-dead-prisoner

[umbertino]

 

17 June

One dead and 20 injured in shooting at New Jersey Art All Night festival

 

One suspect killed and one in custody, prosecutor says

 

Shooting happened at overnight event in Trenton

 

Associated Press in Trenton, New Jersey

Sun 17 Jun 2018 13.48 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/17/one-dead-20-injured-shooting-new-jersey-art-all-night-festival

 

 

 

 

 

95% of UK burglaries and robberies not solved, data suggests

 

 

Police ‘doing all they can’ as crimewave fears rise, with motor scooter thefts a concern

 

Press Association

Sun 17 Jun 2018 10.36 BST Last modified on Sun 17 Jun 2018 11.34 BST

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/17/figures-less-than-5-of-burglaries-and-robberies-in-uk-solved

 

 

 

 

Pittsburgh cartoonist says he was fired after 25 years for making fun of Trump

 

Rob Rogers lost his job at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Thursday in move he says ‘goes against what a free press is all about’

 

 

Sun 17 Jun 2018 06.00 BST

Joanna Walters in New York

 

 

 

One of Rob Rogers’ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette cartoons

Photograph: Rob Rogers

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jun/17/pittsburgh-post-gazette-rob-rogers-cartoons

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why Dutch teenagers are among the happiest in the world

 

Teens in Netherlands regularly top life satisfaction tables, with schooling playing a big role

 

Senay Boztas in Amsterdam

Sun 17 Jun 2018 08.00 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/17/why-dutch-bring-up-worlds-happiest-teenagers

 

 

 

 

Next stop, Nina Simone … Paris metro ‘must honour its heroines’

 

A public vote to name two Paris stations has turned into a battle over a sexist rail map

 

 

Kim Willsher in Paris

Sun 17 Jun 2018 06.00 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/17/paris-metro-male-names-world-without-women-public-vote-new-stations

 

 

 

Thai king signs royal family's $30bn fortune over to himself

 

King Maha Vajiralongkorn formally inherits assets including the Siam Commercial Bank after death of his father

 

Associated Press

Sun 17 Jun 2018 02.04 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/17/thai-king-signs-royal-familys-30bn-fortune-over-to-himself

 

 

 

 

Eight injured in Moscow after taxi mounts pavement

 

Security footage shows taxi striking pedestrians, including World Cup fans, in incident near Red Square

 

Andrew Roth in Moscow

Sat 16 Jun 2018 18.32 BST

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/16/people-injured-in-moscow-taxi-crash-pedestrians

 

 

 

 

 

Woman swallowed by giant python in Indonesia

 

Seven-metre snake found during search for woman who had gone to do some gardening

 

Agence France-Presse

Sun 17 Jun 2018 01.52 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/17/woman-swallowed-giant-python-indonesia

 

 

 

 

‘Our island is like a mosaic’: how migrants are reshaping Sicily’s food culture

 

As Italy swings right, the layers of cuisine reflect the traditions of an island that has adapted to centuries of immigration

 

Wendell Steavenson in Palermo

Sun 17 Jun 2018 11.30 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/17/our-island-is-like-a-mosaic-how-migrants-are-reshaping-sicilys-food-culture

 

 

 

 

 

Low-income black fathers want to be good dads. The system won't let them

 

Working with low-income black fathers in Chicago, I have long seen how counterproductive policies punish them for trying

 

 

Sun 17 Jun 2018 11.00 BST Last modified on Sun 17 Jun 2018 11.37 BST

Kirk E Harris

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/17/black-fathers-parenting-child-support-policy-flaws

 

 

 

 

 

[umbertino]

Tesla goes up in flames in video captured by actor Mary McCormack

 

Actor says husband was flagged down by passersby who told him to get out

 

Agencies

Sun 17 Jun 2018 01.21 BST Last modified on Sun 17 Jun 2018 10.00 BST

 

 

Vid

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/17/tesla-fire-video-mary-mccormack-california

 

[umbertino]

12 unexpected facts you probably didn't know about Iceland

 

Iceland has long been known as one of the most beautiful places in the world, but over the past few years it has also come to be viewed as a rather unusual hotbed of football talent

 

 

This content was paid for by an advertiser and produced by The Local's Creative Studio

15 June 2018

10:55 CEST+02:00

 

 

 

Photo: duha127/Depositphotos

 

 

 

 

https://www.thelocal.it/20180615/12-unexpected-facts-you-probably-didnt-know-about-iceland-investiceland-tlccu

 

 

 

 

Exploring the wild beaches of north-west Sicily

 

Sicily is famous for some of Italy's most picture-perfect beaches. But venture out of the seaside resorts and you'll rewarded with rugged coastline, ancient caves and deserted diving spots, writes contributor Peter Briggs

 

 

14 June 2018

16:21 CEST+02:00

 

 

 

Looking over the Zingaro nature reserve. Photo: Peter Briggs

 

 

 

Pics

 

https://www.thelocal.it/20180614/exploring-wild-beaches-sicily

Edited June 17, 2018 by umbertino