umbertino Posted October 1, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2021 ‘Another miracle’: boy’s escape from Auschwitz train is made into opera Push will be performed in Boortmeerbeek, where Simon Gronowski fled to safety, nine days before his 90th birthday Daniel Boffey in Brussels Fri 1 Oct 2021 11.19 BST https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/01/another-miracle-boys-escape-from-auschwitz-train-is-made-into-opera 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 1, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2021 Death toll in Ecuador prison riot exceeds 100 with some inmates beheaded Clash is the most deadly act of violence ever reported in the country’s prison system Associated Press in Quito Wed 29 Sep 2021 23.09 BST https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/29/ecuador-prison-guayaquil-gang-battle-riot 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 2, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2021 Doctors in Lithuania find kilo of nails and screws in man’s stomach The man started swallowing metal objects, some measuring 10cm long, when he gave up alcohol, hospital official says Agence France-Presse Sat 2 Oct 2021 03.37 BST https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/02/doctors-in-lithuania-find-kilo-of-nails-and-screws-in-mans-stomach 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 2, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2021 (edited) Matera: the gorgeous Italian hill town film-makers can’t resist Anyone from Jesus to James Bond has been seen in the Unesco heritage site now open for business after lockdown Ondine Cohane Sat 2 Oct 2021 06.00 BSTLast modified on Sat 2 Oct 2 https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2021/oct/02/matera-the-gorgeous-italian-hill-town-film-makers-cant-resist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matera Edited October 2, 2021 by umbertino 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 3, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2021 Outcry in Brazil over photos of people scavenging through animal carcasses Pictures of destitute Brazilians searching scraps for food lay bare scale of economic and social crisis Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro Sun 3 Oct 2021 10.48 BST https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/03/outcry-in-brazil-over-photos-of-people-scavenging-through-animal-carcasses 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 3, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2021 (edited) Scandal-ridden French tycoon Bernard Tapie dies aged 78 Business magnate who also turned his hand to sport, politics and acting, dies four years after cancer diagnosis Jon Henley in Paris Sun 3 Oct 2021 12.52 BST https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/03/scandal-ridden-french-tycoon-bernard-tapie-dies-aged-78 Here in Italy we had nicknamed him the French Berlusconi...For the many scandals, for being the owner of a football (soccer) club etc Edited October 3, 2021 by umbertino 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 3, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2021 3,000 paedophiles in French Catholic church since 1950s - inquiry head Figure from head of commission investigating sexual abuse comes days before publication of report Jon Henley in Paris and agencies Sun 3 Oct 2021 13.43 BST https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/03/since-1950-some-3000-paedophiles-operated-in-french-catholic-church 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 3, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2021 Stripe zone: on the trail of suburban Maryland’s elusive zebras Five black-and-white quadrupeds who escaped from a farm last month should be easy to spot around town … shouldn’t they? Adam Gabbatt in Upper Marlboro, Maryland Sat 2 Oct 2021 07.00 BST https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/02/zebras-maryland 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 4, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2021 ‘Exhausted and underpaid’: teachers across the US are leaving their jobs in record numbers Unsafe Covid protocols, disrupted schedules and overwork are driving teachers out the schoolhouse door Michael Sainato Mon 4 Oct 2021 10.00 BST https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/04/teachers-quitting-jobs-covid-record-numbers 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 4, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2021 Woman successfully treated for depression with electrical brain implant ‘Stunning’ neuroscientific advance gives hope to those with mental illness not helped with drugs Hannah Devlin Science correspondent Mon 4 Oct 2021 16.00 BST https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/oct/04/woman-successfully-treated-for-depression-with-electrical-brain-implant 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 5, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2021 Historical climate emissions reveal responsibility of big polluting nations Six of top 10, including China and Russia, yet to show ambition on emissions cuts before Cop26 Damian Carrington Environment editor Tue 5 Oct 2021 06.00 BST https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/05/historical-climate-emissions-big-polluting-nations Global citizens’ assembly to be chosen for UN climate talks 100-member group will be representative of world’s population and will present their findings to Cop26 Fiona Harvey Environment correspondent Tue 5 Oct 2021 09.00 BST https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/05/global-citizens-assembly-to-be-chosen-for-un-climate-talks 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 5, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2021 (edited) Facebook, Instagram appear to partly reconnect after nearly six-hour outage October 5, 202112:15 AM CESTLast Updated 17 hours ago By Subrat Patnaik and Eva Mathews https://www.reuters.com/technology/facebook-instagram-down-thousands-users-downdetectorcom-2021-10-04/ I am a Whatsapp (just that and nothing else) user and yesterday after many failed attempts in trying to communicate with friends I thought it was my cell. having problems...... Apparently this outage did cost Mark $6B...No big deal..... Edited October 5, 2021 by umbertino 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 6, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2021 Cop a load of this: on the beat with the NYPD – in pictures Between 1978 and 1981, Jill Freedman tagged along with the NYPD as they arrested burglars, picked up stray kids and kicked down doors Tue 5 Oct 2021 07.00 BST Photographer: Jill Freedman https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/oct/05/jill-freedman-nypd-in-pictures 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 7, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2021 Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the 2021 Nobel prize in literature Zanzibari novelist becomes first black African writer in 35 years to win prestigious award Alison Flood Thu 7 Oct 2021 12.07 BST https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/07/abdulrazak-gurnah-wins-the-2021-nobel-prize-in-literature 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 7, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2021 Death of nine US service members in training accident blamed on burnout Extraordinary demands on troops from Covid and militarization at the southern border were cited in mistakes that led to the disaster Maya Yang Thu 7 Oct 2021 15.03 BST https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/07/death-us-navy-marines-training-accident-burnout 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 7, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2021 (edited) The Amazon rainforest is losing 200,000 acres a day. Soon it will be too late Since 1988, humans have destroyed an area of rainforest roughly the size of Texas and New Mexico combined Thu 7 Oct 2021 14.00 BST Last modified on Thu 7 Oct Kim Heacox https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/07/the-amazon-rain-forest-is-losing-200000-acres-a-day-soon-it-will-be-too-late Edited October 7, 2021 by umbertino 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 7, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2021 $11 for ‘brief emotion’? The hidden charges of US healthcare are utterly enraging A woman tweeted her invoice for mole removal in a US hospital – showing one of the many small, insidious charges that add up to millions each year Wed 6 Oct 2021 07.00 BST Arwa Mahdawi https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/06/11-for-brief-emotion-the-hidden-charges-of-us-healthcare-are-utterly-enraging 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 7, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2021 Rio police say €3m ( $3.47M) Nazi trove found at home of child sexual abuse suspect More than 1,000 Nazi items discovered at 58-year-old’s home Brazilian police investigating links to other far-right groups Reuters in Rio de Janeiro Wed 6 Oct 2021 20.19 BST https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/06/rio-police-brazil-nazi-trove-man-suspect-child-sexual-abuse 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 7, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2021 WHO endorses use of world’s first malaria vaccine in Africa World Health Organization’s director general hails ‘historic day’ in fight against parasitic disease Lizzy Davies Wed 6 Oct 2021 18.17 BST Vid https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/oct/06/who-endorses-use-of-worlds-first-malaria-vaccine-in-africa 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 8, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2021 Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov win Nobel peace prize Filipina and Russian given 2021 award as organisers warn of threat to independent media worldwide Jon Henley, Pjotr Sauer in Moscow and Rebecca Ratcliffe, South-east Asia correspondent Fri 8 Oct 2021 13.47 BST https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/08/journalists-maria-ressa-and-dmitry-muratov-win-nobel-peace-prize 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 10, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2021 Lebanon hit by electricity outage expected to last several days Country’s two main power stations stop working due to fuel shortage plunging cities into darkness Martin Chulov Middle East correspondent Sat 9 Oct 2021 16.52 BST https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/09/lebanon-hit-by-electricity-outage-expected-to-last-several-days 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 11, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2021 US navy engineer charged with trying to sell nuclear submarine secrets Jonathan Toebbe and wife arrested in West Virginia after nuclear engineer makes ‘dead drop’ to undercover FBI agent Associated Press in Washington Sun 10 Oct 2021 20.55 BST https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/10/us-navy-engineer-charged-with-trying-so-sell-nuclear-submarine-secrets 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 11, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2021 Pandora papers: Samoa defends its offshore industry, points to ‘key levers’ in bigger countries Pacific country says it faces ‘diabolical challenges’ due to larger nations and that they play a much bigger role in controversial industry Kate Lyons Mon 11 Oct 2021 05.36 BST https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/11/pandora-papers-samoa-defends-its-offshore-industry-points-to-key-levers-in-bigger-countries 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 11, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2021 The Guardian view on sexual abuse and the Catholic church: contrition is not enough An investigation into paedophile priests in France reveals an institution in desperate need of reform Sun 10 Oct 2021 18.30 BST Editorial https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/10/the-guardian-view-on-sexual-abuse-and-the-catholic-church-contrition-is-not-enough 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 12, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2021 Built on the bodies of slaves: how Africa was erased from the history of the modern world The creation of the modern, interconnected world is generally credited to European pioneers. But Africa was the wellspring for almost everything they achieved – and African lives were the terrible cost Tue 12 Oct 2021 06.00 BST by Howard W French https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/12/africa-slaves-erased-from-history-modern-world 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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