May 18, 2018 - Articles

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‘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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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‘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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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$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

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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
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• Brazilian police investigating links to other far-right groups
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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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