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Bernie Madoff, financier behind largest Ponzi scheme in history, dies in prison

  • Fraudster sentenced to 150 years in jail dies from natural causes
  • New York financier ran scheme that cheated investors of billions

 

 

Dominic Rushe and Edward Helmore in New York
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Stunningly preserved fresco of Narcissus discovered in Pompeii   Mythological hunter is depicted enraptured by his own reflection     Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo Thu 14 Feb

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Neglected tropical diseases are the landmines of global health

 

They are 20 disparate diseases that, like mines, unduly affect the world’s poorest people. Now there’s a plan to eradicate them by 2030

 

Wed 14 Apr 2021 07.00 BST

Albert Picado and John H Amuasi

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/apr/14/landmines-global-health-who-roadmap-eliminate-neglected-tropical-diseases

 

 

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Sofia review – Moroccan society through the eyes of an unwed mother

 

Meryem Benm’Barek’s smart debut lays bare the scandalous consequences for a Casablanca woman who finds herself single and pregnant

 

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Soccer: European Super League faces scorn across continent

 

Juventus chief under fire as La Liga condemns move and French ministers criticise ‘VIP club’

 

Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo, Sam Jones in Madrid, Jon Henley in Paris and Kate Connolly in Berlin
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EU ‘reflecting’ on conflict of interest rules after BlackRock controversy

 

Bloc has come under fire for hiring manager of oil shares to work on environmental controls for banks

 

 
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‘WW2 bomb’ found in Bavarian forest was sex toy, say officials

 

Police bomb squad confirms discovery near Passau as rubber sex toy in shape of hand grenade

 

Associated Press in Berlin
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David Beriáin, Spanish Doc Director-Producer, Killed in Burkina Faso Attack

 

Director-producer David Beriáin, one of the key figures on Spain’s new documentary scene, was killed on Monday while making an anti-poaching documentary in Burkina Faso

 

Apr 27, 2021 1:25pm PT

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https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/david-beriain-burkino-faso-dies-dead-1234961653/

 

I had seen a few of his docs here on Italian TV...All of them extremely good...RIP

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Michael Collins obituary

 

Astronaut and first man to orbit the moon alone, during the historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969

 

 
Thu 29 Apr 2021 13.07 BST

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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/apr/29/michael-collins-obituary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

World will lose 10% of glacier ice even if it hits climate targets

 

Exclusive: loss is equivalent to more than 13,200 cubic kilometres of water or 10m Wembley Stadiums

 

Jonathan Watts Global environment editor
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California man dies after police pin him to ground for five minutes

 

  • Body-cam footage shows arrest of Mario Gonzalez last week
  • Family says police used excess force: ‘They killed my son’

 

Sam Levin and agencies
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Dozens killed in crush at Lag Baomer religious festival in Israel

 

Teams treating dozens of injured at Mount Meron as emergency medical group says at least 44 dead

 

 
Oliver Holmes in Jerusalem, Harriet Sherwood and agencies
Fri 30 Apr 2021 11.54 BST
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Antarctic ‘doomsday glacier’ may be melting faster than was thought

 

Study finds more relatively warm water is reaching Thwaites glacier than was previously understood

 

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Dutch couple move into Europe’s first fully 3D-printed house

 

New home in shape of boulder is first legally habitable property with load-bearing walls made using 3D-printing technology

 

Daniel Boffey in Eindhoven
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Argentinian buys Google’s domain name for £2 ( $2.77)

Designer living in Buenos Aires says he snapped up google.com.ar after noticing it available in registry

 

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Burkina Faso: two Spanish journalists and Irish conservationist killed

 

Spaniards David Beriáin and Roberto Fraile, and Rory Young, a Zambian-born Irish citizen, ambushed by jihadists

 

Emmanuel Akinwotu in Lagos and Sam Jones in Madrid
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Hopes raised for two Americans jailed in Tehran being freed

 

Morad Tahbaz and Siamak Namazi moved to cells where previously prisoners were held before release

 

Patrick Wintour, Diplomatic Editor
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German police shut one of world’s biggest darknet child abuse images sites

 

Boystown platform had membership of more than 400,000 international subscribers

 

Kate Connolly in Berlin
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Dozens of Canada’s First Nations lack drinking water: ‘Unacceptable in a country so rich’

 

Indigenous leaders are suing the Canadian government for not providing clean water – and ministers admit they have failed

 

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Melting ice reveals first world war relics in Italian Alps

 

Accelerating retreat of glaciers in Lombardy and Trentino Alto-Adige reveals preserved history of ‘White War’

 

 
Angela Giuffrida in Stelvio national park
Tue 4 May 2021 07.00 BST
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Trentino Alto Adige: that's my region
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Why do Americans die earlier than Europeans?

 

The ‘mortality penalty’ that the US pays every year is equivalent to the number of Americans who died of Covid in 2020

 

Tue 4 May 2021 11.30 BST

Samuel Preston and Yana Vierboom

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/04/why-do-americans-die-earlier-than-europeans

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Amazon had sales income of €44bn ( $52.86B) in Europe in 2020 but paid no corporation tax

 

Despite lockdown surge the firm’s Luxembourg unit made a €1.2bn loss and therefore paid zero corporation tax

 

Rupert Neate Wealth correspondent
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At least 23 dead as Mexico City metro overpass collapses

 

Officials say at least 65 injured as videos on TV and social media showed the overpass falling on to cars below

 

David Agren in Mexico City
Tue 4 May 2021 12.46 BST
 
 
 
 
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Zapatistas set sail for Spain on mission of solidarity and rebellion

 

Small band of mariners embark upon peaceful ‘invasion’ of Europe 500 years after the conquistadores

 

David Agren in Mexico City and Sam Jones in Madrid
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Receding glaciers causing rivers to suddenly disappear

 

Global phenomenon known as river piracy demands urgent adaptation from ecosystems and people who rely on their flow

 

Jenna Kunze
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Rome court to rule on two Americans accused of fatally stabbing police officer

 

Jury to start deliberations on Wednesday with prosecutor demanding students get life sentence

 

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American students jailed for life for murder of police officer in Rome

 

Jury convicts Finnegan Lee Elder, 21, and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, 20, over knife killing committed in 2019

 

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