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Steve Bannon Condemns Mnuchin's Trade Truce as China Giveaway

By Kevin Cirilli

 

 

Updated 22 May 2018, 12:31 PM
Published 21 May 2018, 7:18 PM
 
 
 

 

 

 

Mr. Bannon is expected here in Italy during the current week  to meet Matteo Salvini, leader of  far-right party  League

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Mississauga explosion: more than a dozen injured in Canada restaurant blast

 

Police say two men detonated improvised explosive device inside Bombay Bhel restaurant

 

 

Fri 25 May 2018 11.02 BST

Ashifa Kassam in Toronto

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/25/explosion-hits-restaurant-in-toronto-injured-mississauga-canada

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Stabbed at a neo-Nazi rally, called a criminal: how police targeted a black activist

 

Exclusive: records show police surveilled and tried to charge a citizen journalist attacked at a California rally. Does it fit a pattern of punishing black protesters?

 

 

Fri 25 May 2018 10.00 BST

Sam Levin in Oakland

 

 

 

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Cedric O’Bannon, a California activist and journalist who was stabbed at a neo-Nazi rally in Sacramento
Photograph: Robert Gumpert for the Guardian
 
 
 
 
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'So many no voters are shy': Ireland awaits result of abortion poll

 

Pro-choice and anti-abortion backers vote in historic referendum after tense campaign

 

Emma Graham-Harrison and Henry McDonald in Dublin, and Harriet Sherwood in London

Fri 25 May 2018 18.08 BST

 

 

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Yes and no supporters campaign next to each other on polling day in Dublin
Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
 
 
 
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LA Times among US-based news sites blocking EU users due to GDPR

 

LA Times, Chicago Tribune and others redirect to pages saying sites are currently unavailable in most European countries

 

Alex Hern and Martin Belam

Fri 25 May 2018 11.43 BST

 

 

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EU-based visitors to the Los Angeles Times website are being redirected to a page that looks like this
 
 
 

 

Solvable through a proxy, obviously

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The 22 best US national parks to escape the crowds, chosen by experts

 

Park visitation is at a record high – good for tourism, not so good for peace and quiet. From Acadia to Zion, Bryce Canyon to Yosemite, leading writers and environmentalists share their alternatives to the most popular spots
 

 

Featuring Bill McKibben, Cynthia Barnett, Ryan Zinke, Leslie Marmon Silko and more …

Fri 25 May 2018 07.00 BST

 

 

 

 

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The northern lights above an island at Voyageurs national park, Minnesota
Photograph: More Than Just Parks / Barcroft/More Than Just Parks/Barcroft
 
 
 
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A century on, why are we forgetting the deaths of 100 million?

 

The 1918 Spanish flu outbreak killed more people than both world wars. Don’t imagine such a thing could never happen again

 

 

Fri 25 May 2018 06.00 BST Last modified on Fri 25 May 2018 11.54 BST

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After my experience with Milwaukee police, I have to tell my story (pls see one of articles above - page 3)

 

‘Situations like mine and worse happen every day in the black community’ writes NBA player Sterling Brown in a public statement on Wednesday

 

 

Sterling Brown

Thu 24 May 2018 15.21 BST Last modified on Thu 24 May 2018 21.25 BST

 

 

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/24/milwaukee-police-sterling-brown

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Life and death on billionaires' superyachts – video

 

The Guardian is granted exclusive access to some of the latest superyachts in Monaco. But what is life really like for the young people serving billionaires.......

 

Rupert Neate, Richard Sprenger, Dan Susman and Jem Talbot, Source: The Guardian

Sat 26 May 2018 15.13 BST

 

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/video/2018/may/26/life-and-death-on-billionaires-superyachts

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I work at one of America's underfunded schools. It's falling apart

 

An Oklahoma teacher’s account of her school district, from the classrooms without desks and supplies to the professors who hold office hours in their cars

 

Melissa Smith, for AFT Voices

Sat 26 May 2018 11.00 BST

 

 

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The Story of Oklahoma, the state’s wildly outdated history textbook
Photograph: Melissa Smith/AFTVoices
 
 
 
 
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'Immigration killed her': Guatemalan woman shot dead by US Border Patrol

 

Claudia Patricia Gómez Gonzáles, 20, died on Wednesday after she was shot in the head by an agent in Rio Bravo, Texas

 

Nina Lakhani

Fri 25 May 2018 23.17 BST Last modified on Fri 25 May 2018 23.33 BST

 

 
 
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Dominga Vicente, a relative of Claudia Patricia Gómez Gonzáles, shows a photo of her during a press conference in Guatemala City on 25 May
Photograph: Esteban Biba/EPA
 
 
 
 
 
 
If I recall well, Guatemala was the only Country following the US lead in moving its  Embassy in Israel  from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem ( or at least planning to do so very soon)
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Starbucks to tell staff 'prejudice is deeply rooted' at anti-bias training

 

The coffee chain will close 8,000 US shops for retraining on Sunday in response to a racially charged incident in Philadelphia

 

Edward Helmore in New York

Sat 26 May 2018 11.00 BST

 

 

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A Starbucks sign in New York City. In a corporate video the chief executive, Kevin Johnson, reportedly says: ‘Prejudice in public accommodation is deeply rooted in America.’
Photograph: Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images
 
 
 
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America's tree sitters risk lives on the front line

 

In the hills on the border of Virginia and West Virginia protesters – mainly women – are defying police and energy companies in non-violent environmental activism

 

Drew Philp

Sat 26 May 2018 14.26 BST First published on Sat 26 May 2018 11.00 BST

 

 
 
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Mountain Valley Pipeline protester ‘Nutty’ looks out from her monopod in the Virginia forest on her 49th day 45ft above the ground
Photograph: Garrett MacLean for the Guardian
 
 
 
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I went to see an American woman holding a conference  here in my hometown....She's the most famous among these People....Her name is Julia Buttefly Hill....An incredible and powerful story....She lived  2 years on a very tall tree in order to prevent tree - cutting in the area.....

 

 

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

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Nasa's Golden Record may baffle alien life, say researchers

 

Extraterrestrials will discover a species that loves to argue and sees beauty in flowers that roar like chainsaws

 

 

Sat 26 May 2018 09.00 BST

Ian Sample Science editor

 

 

 

 

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The Voyager Golden Records contain sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth
Photograph: Nasa
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Indiana teacher threw basketball to avert school shooter, witness says

 

Science teacher Jason Seaman wounded but in good condition after running toward gunman as students sought cover

 

Associated Press in Noblesville, Indiana

Sat 26 May 2018 15.53 BST

 

 

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Police officers outside Noblesville West middle school, Friday
Photograph: Indy Star-USA TODAY NETWORK/Sipa USA/REX/Shutterstock
 
 
 
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Former president George HW Bush admitted to hospital in Maine

 

93-year-old experiences low blood pressure and fatigue

 

Spokesman says Bush ‘not in any discomfort’

 

Guardian staff and agencies

Sun 27 May 2018 19.49 BST

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/27/president-george-hw-bush-hospital-maine

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Astronaut Alan Bean, fourth person to walk on the moon, dies aged 86

 

Nasa and family announce death on Saturday

 

Bean was lunar module pilot on Apollo 12 mission

 

Guardian staff and agencies

Sat 26 May 2018 22.19 BST

 

 

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Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean walks through an exhibition of his own artwork, mounted in 2009
Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin/AP
 
 
 
 
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28 May

'Coffee shop racism': Starbucks arrests highlight behavior that crosses a line

 

Many say the Starbucks incident exposed discrimination that people of color and black people in particular face every day

 

 

Mon 28 May 2018 07.00 BST

Adam Gabbatt

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/28/coffee-shop-racism-starbucks-arrests

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A student leader is the latest victim of France’s obsession with the hijab

 

Media attacks on Maryam Pougetoux show how Muslim women are prevented from engaging in French public life

 

 

Mon 28 May 2018 11.17 BST Last modified on Mon 28 May 2018 13.00 BST

By  Rokhaya  Diallo
 
 
 
 
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Maryam Pougetoux in Paris
Photograph: STR/AFP/Getty Images

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/28/union-leader-maryam-pougetoux-france-hijab

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How America's go-to holiday spot became a shoreline of addiction

 

Massachusetts is one of the top 10 states with the highest rate of addiction – and in Cape Cod, many find it difficult to stay clean when the summer ends

 

Nico Gendron in Cape Cod

Mon 28 May 2018 11.00 BST

 

 

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Cape Cod, Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA. F Hall
Photograph: F Hall/ALAMY
 
 
 
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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

 

Hannah Summers

Mon 28 May 2018 13.39 BST Last modified on Mon 28 May 2018 13.40 BST

 

 
 
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Sunny Angel has written a book, Wings, about her experiences ‘as a sex slave and skivvy’ in a forced marriage
Photograph: Jill Mead for the Guardian

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/may/28/beatings-rape-non-stop-work-uk-women-enslaved-forced-marriages

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Belgium shooting: man kills passerby and two police officers in Liège

 

People run for safety on Boulevard d’Avroy before shooter is shot dead by police

 

Reuters

Tue 29 May 2018 11.43 BST Last modified on Tue 29 May 2018 14.47 BST

 

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