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World’s oldest man dies in Japan aged 113

 

Masazo Nonaka, who enjoyed watching sumo wrestling and eating sweets, died at home

 

 

Agencies in Tokyo

Sun 20 Jan 2019 10.48 GMT Last modified on Sun 20 Jan 2019 12.26 GMT

 
 
 
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Masazo Nonaka, pictured last April, was born on 25 July 1905
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Super blood wolf moon: rare total lunar eclipse to appear in northern hemisphere skies

 

Last blood moon for two years will combine with a supermoon to create the unusual celestial phenomenon

 

 

Guardian staff and agencies

Sun 20 Jan 2019 15.24 GMT

 

 

 

 

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A blood moon last occurred in July 2018, though clouds largely obscured the celestial phenomenon in the UK
Photograph: JM F Almeida/Getty Images
 
 
 
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Does marijuana use really cause psychotic disorders?

 

Alex Berenson says the drug causes ‘sharp increases in murders and aggravated assaults’. As scientists, we find his claims misinformed and reckless

 

 

Carl L Hart and Charles Ksir

Sun 20 Jan 2019 11.00 GMT

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/20/marijuana-cannabis-health-effects-issues-mental-health-disorders-science

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Florida bank shooting leaves at least five dead

 

Suspect, 21, in custody

 

Incident occurred just after 12.30pm in Sebring

 

 

Reuters

Wed 23 Jan 2019 22.10 GMT Last modified on Wed 23 Jan 2019 22.23 GMT

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Italy violated Knox's right to defence - Strasbourg court

European Court of Human Rights says Rome must pay 18,000 euros ($20,430)

 

Strasbourg

24 January 201912:13 News

 

 

 

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Italian police mistreated Amanda Knox, rules European court of human rights

 

Europe's top human rights court on Thursday said Italy failed to provide adequate legal representation for Amanda Knox, an American student acquitted in 2015 of the gruesome killing of her British housemate

 

 

AFP
24 January 2019
12:31 CET+01:00

 

 

 

 

https://www.thelocal.it/20190124/italy-police-amanda-knox-human-rights-court-echr

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Revealed: Facebook let children run up huge bills to boost revenues

 

Firm has settled US lawsuit over purchases with parents’ credit cards, court papers show

 

 

Alex Hern

Fri 25 Jan 2019 14.01 GMT Last modified on Fri 25 Jan 2019 14.22 GMT

 

 
 
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Facebook promoted games that allowed users to buy in-game advantages with real money
Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images
 
 
 
 
 
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1 minute ago, Shabibilicious said:

Wow.....It looks like your neg numbers really spiked overnight.  I'm sorry my friend....as you know, the human condition is not always a good one.   And as usual, I've used my allotment of +'s for the day.  

 

GO RV, then BV

 

Thanks Shabs.......Glad you did notice that cos I had the feeling that when I was trying to talk about it in the past many thought I was lying / making up stuff.....So I do appreciate, Bro.....

 

Haters will be haters...I know I have to deal with it

 

 

I wanted to plus you but it looks like my pluses end up real fast nowadays.....Ok.....Until I get re-loaded again.....

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Brazil dam collapse: 10 bodies found and hundreds missing

 

Chance of finding survivors ‘minimal’ after tailings dam at iron ore mine bursts

 

 

Dom Phillips in Pacaraima

Sat 26 Jan 2019 13.31 GMT

 

 

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/25/brazil-dam-collapse-news-latest-mining-disaster-brumadinho

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Rescuers find body of toddler who fell down Spanish well

 

Two-year-old Julen Rosseló fell down 100-metre borehole near Málaga 13 days ago

 

 

Sam Jones in Madrid

Sat 26 Jan 2019 09.25 GMT First published on Sat 26 Jan 2019 02.17 GMT

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Suspect arrested in Louisiana shootings which left five dead

 

Dakota Theriot, 21, arrested in Virginia

 

Theriot’s parents and three others killed in two incidents

 

 

Associated Press

Sun 27 Jan 2019 14.49 GMT First published on Sun 27 Jan 2019 14.29 GMT

 
 
 
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Dakota Theriot was booked on two counts of first-degree murder, home invasion and illegal use of weapons
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One in 20 Britons does not believe Holocaust took place, poll finds

 

Call for better education after scale of ignorance is revealed in survey to coincide with memorial day

 

 

Harriet Sherwood

Sun 27 Jan 2019 00.01 GMT Last modified on Sun 27 Jan 2019 08.34 GMT

 
 
 
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A visitor studies stories of Holocaust victims during the annual Holocaust memorial commemoration event at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office on 23 January
Photograph: WPA Pool/Getty Images
 
 
 
 
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Binghamton schools put on notice after strip search of Black girls

 

January 24, 2019 9:11 AM CST By Scott Hiley

 

 

 

 
Binghamton schools put on notice after strip search of Black girls
Parents and community members packed the meeting of the Binghamton District School Board. | PLOT
 
 
 
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Three-year-old boy missing in woods for two days says friendly bear kept him safe

 

Casey Hathaway from North Carolina hailed ‘a survivor’ by police after becoming lost in sub-zero temperatures

 

 

Staff and agencies

Mon 28 Jan 2019 02.57 GMT Last modified on Mon 28 Jan 2019 10.08 GMT

 
 
 
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Casey Hathaway told family he hung out with a bear after he went missing near his grandmother’s North Carolina home
Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo
 
 
 
 
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Facebook paid 13-year-olds for access to all their internet data

 

Accusations that social media giant used privacy loophole could stoke conflict with Apple

 

 

Alex Hern

Wed 30 Jan 2019 12.17 GMT Last modified on Wed 30 Jan 2019 12.41 GMT

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Polar vortex: Chicago colder than Antarctica as temperatures plummet

 

Great Lakes may dip to -40F amid bitter cold carried by the polar vortex, a stream of air that spins around over the North Pole

 

Jessica Glenza in New York and agencies

Wed 30 Jan 2019 16.23 GMT

 

 

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/30/polar-vortex-us-weather-latest-temperatures-midwest-east

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Super Bowl: 33 arrested for sex trafficking in Atlanta in run-up to game

 

Four victims have been rescued, authorities say, as more than 600 DHS officials will be in the city on Sunday for protection

 

 

Guardian staff and agencies

Thu 31 Jan 2019 17.27 GMT

 

 

 

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Atlanta police chief Erika Shields speaks at a news conference in Atlanta
Photograph: Tannen Maury/EPA
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Death of the private self: how fifteen years of Facebook changed the human condition

 

In 2004, the social network site was set up to connect people. But now, with lives increasingly played out online, have we forgotten how to be alone?

 

 

John Harris

Thu 31 Jan 2019 05.59 GMT Last modified on Thu 31 Jan 2019 10.54 GMT

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Lisbon's bad week: police brutality reveals Portugal's urban reality

 

A viral video of police violence has brought national attention to the long-ghettoised community in Bairro da Jamaica

 

 

Ana Naomi de Sousa in Lisbon, Portugal

Thu 31 Jan 2019 12.00 GMT

 

 

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https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jan/31/lisbons-bad-week-police-brutality-reveals-portugals-urban-reality

 

Visited in 2009....Beautiful city.......

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Betrayal, torture and a $100m bribe: what the El Chapo trial has revealed

 

As proceedings wind down, it is clear the exposure of corruption throughout the Mexican state will be the trial’s principle legacy

 

 

Ed Vulliamy

Sat 2 Feb 2019 08.00 GMT Last modified on Sat 2 Feb 2019 14.51 GMT

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Witness claims El Chapo had sex with minors he called ‘vitamins’

 

Unsealed documents made public just as jury is about to start deliberations in Joaquín Guzmán’s drug-trafficking case

 

 

Edward Helmore in New York and agencies

Sun 3 Feb 2019 17.32 GMT

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/03/el-chapo-trial-sex-with-minors-witness-claims-court-papers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Four-year-old shoots mother in face after finding gun under mattress

 

Pregnant woman, 27, has ‘life-threatening’ injuries

 

New Washington state law governs unsafe gun storage

 

 

Associated Press in Seattle

Sun 3 Feb 2019 18.49 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/03/four-year-old-shoots-mother-face-gun-mattress

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Cryptocurrency investors locked out of $190m after exchange founder dies

 

QuadrigaCX, Canada’s largest exchange, was unable to access password or recovery key after Gerald Cotten died last December

 

 

Dominic Rushe

Mon 4 Feb 2019 16.51 GMT Last modified on Mon 4 Feb 2019 16.56 GMT

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Erasing the hate: the tattoo shop offering former white supremacists a fresh start

 

At Sickside Tattoo Studio in Mississippi, reformed gang members and white supremacists such as TM Garret seek free cover-ups for ink from their pasts

 

Deborah Bloom

Tue 5 Feb 2019 11.00 GMT Last modified on Tue 5 Feb 2019 14.45 GMT

 

 
 
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Nate Greer takes a smoke break outside Sickside Tattoo Studio in Horn Lake, Mississippi
Photograph: Melissa Golden/The Guardian

 

 

 

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/05/sickside-tattoo-studio-erase-the-hate-white-supremacist-tattoo-cover-ups

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alabama officer won't be charged for killing black man during mall shooting

 

The officer had said he shot and killed Emantic ‘EJ’ Bradford, Jr because he thought Bradford was the gunman in a mall shooting

 

 

Associated Press

Tue 5 Feb 2019 20.15 GMT Last modified on Tue 5 Feb 2019 21.41 GMT

 
 
 
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April Pipkins holds a photograph of her deceased son, Emantic ‘EJ’ Bradford Jr in Birmingham, Alabama on 27 November 2018
Photograph: Jay Reeves/AP

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/05/alabama-officer-wont-be-charged-for-killing-black-man-during-mall-shooting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Runner suffocated mountain lion after animal attacked him, officials say

 

Colorado Parks and Wildlife says man fought off the cougar, hiked out of the area after attack and drove himself to hospital

 

 

Katharine Gammon and Associated Press

Tue 5 Feb 2019 18.35 GMT

 

 

 

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A mountain lion makes its way through fresh snow in the foothills outside of Golden, Colorado
Photograph: Rick Wilking/Reuters
 
 
 
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Finland's 'free cash' experiment fails to boost employment

 

But scheme giving unemployed £475 ($614.60) a month did leave participants happier and healthier

 

 

Jon Henley and agencies

Fri 8 Feb 2019 16.39 GMT

 

 

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Helsinki, Finland. The scheme was aimed at seeing whether a guaranteed income might incentivise people to take up more low-paid or temporary work by removing their concerns about losing benefits
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The linguistic scam of Italy’s ‘citizenship income’

Roberto Ciccarelli

Il Manifesto Global Edition October 21, 2018

 

 

 

https://www.bin-italia.org/the-linguistic-scam-of-italys-citizenship-income/

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Rio declares three days of mourning after fire kills 10 teenage footballers

 

Flamengo president says it is ‘the worst tragedy to happen to the club in its 123 years’

 

 

Sam Jones and agencies in Rio de Janeiro

Sat 9 Feb 2019 13.00 GMT

 

 

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A man wearing a Flamengo soccer kit prays during a memorial mass for the victims of the fire
Photograph: Léo Corrêa/AP
 
 
 
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Attorney: New racist threats at GM plant where nooses found

 

Workers who sued General Motors after nooses and racist graffiti were found at its largest U.S. transmission plant nearly two years ago........

 

 

By JOHN SEEWERJanuary 17, 2019
 
 
 
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El Chapo trial: Mexican drug cartel boss found guilty

 

Joaquín Guzmán, 61, could spend the rest of his life behind bars after being convicted following three-month New York trial

 

 

Adam Gabbatt in New York and agencies

Tue 12 Feb 2019 17.41 GMT

 

 

 

 

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El Chapo twice escaped prison before his final capture in 2016
Photograph: Eduardo Verdugo/AP
 
 
 
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Six California police officers fire shots at rapper asleep in car, killing him

 

Family of Willie McCoy allege racial profiling after Vallejo police fire ‘multiple rounds’ at man

 

 

Sam Levin in Oakland

Tue 12 Feb 2019 23.15 GMT

 

 

 

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Willie McCoy had been sleeping in his car outside a Taco Bell, authorities said
Photograph: Courtesy David Harrison
 
 
 
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