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‘I have never felt so hopeless’: millions in US fear utility shutoffs as debts rise

 

Millions have fallen behind on utility bills since the pandemic started while utility debt is an estimated $32bn

 

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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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Ground control to Captain Kirk! William Shatner is off to the final frontier, for real

 

At the age of 90, the Star Trek star is set to board Jeff Bezos’s space ship today. It’s just the latest chapter in a long relationship between the sci-fi smash and real-life space odysseys

 

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Norway bow-and-arrow attack ‘appears to be act of terror’

 

Police say Danish suspect’s motives yet to be firmly established and he will undergo psychiatric evaluation

 

Jon Henley Europe correspondent
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US heating bills will jump as much as 54% this winter, says government

 

Nearly half the homes in the US use natural gas for heat, and they could pay an average $746 this winter, 30% more than a year ago

 

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'Most profound experience': William Shatner starstruck by encounter with space – video

 

Actor William Shatner soared aboard a Blue Origin rocketship on a suborbital trip on Wednesday to become, at the age 90, the oldest person ever in space - an experience he called profound - as US billionaire businessman Jeff Bezos's company carried out its second tourist flight

 

Source: Blue Origin

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https://www.theguardian.com/culture/video/2021/oct/13/is-that-death-william-shatner-starstruck-by-encounter-with-space-video

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MP David Amess dies after being stabbed at constituency surgery

 

Man arrested on suspicion of murder after Conservative MP attacked at church in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex

 

Fri 15 Oct 2021 15.32 BST
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Texas school official says classrooms with books on Holocaust must offer ‘opposing’ views

 

In recording obtained by NBC News, curriculum director describes ‘political mess’ after passage of state law

 

Dani Anguiano in Los Angeles
Fri 15 Oct 2021 03.27 BST
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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‘My life in the mafia’s shadow’: Italy’s most hunted author, Roberto Saviano

 

Since 2006, the acclaimed writer has lived in fear for his life, following publication of his exposé on the criminal gangs. The Observer takes a trip back to Naples with him and his minders

 

Sat 16 Oct 2021 15.00 BST

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/16/my-life-in-the-mafias-shadow-italys-most-hunted-author-robert-saviano

 

Great guy...Read his first book "Gomorra" (Gomorrah)...Non-fiction...A sharp, extremely informative, doc book about the situation of Camorra, the powerful Naples  mafia...Saw him many times on tv......He's a much requested consultant and expert  by judges and attorneys in various investigations and trials

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A US small-town mayor sued the oil industry. Then Exxon went after him

 

The mayor of Imperial Beach, California, says big oil wants him to drop the lawsuit demanding the industry pay for the climate crisis

 

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Group of 17 US missionaries and family members kidnapped in Haiti

 

Children were among those abducted by gang members on their way home from an orphanage

 

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Colin Powell, former US secretary of state, dies at 84 of Covid complications

 

  • Powell helped to build case for 2003 invasion of Iraq
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  • George W Bush pays tribute to ‘great public servant’

 

Ed Pilkington in New York
Mon 18 Oct 2021 17.03 BST
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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A nurse’s journey from treating Covid in Brazil to death in the US desert

 

Lenilda dos Santos left her home in rural Amazonia, part of a South American exodus driven by a coronavirus-era depression

 

Mon 18 Oct 2021 05.00 BST

by Tom Phillips in Vale do Paraíso

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/18/brazil-migrant-death-us-border-desert-dream

 

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Has Interpol become the long arm of oppressive regimes?

 

Once used in the hunt for fugitive criminals, the global police agency’s most-wanted ‘red notice’ list now includes political refugees and dissidents

 

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Haitian gang demands $17m ransom for kidnapped missionaries and children

 

Authorities are negotiating for their release but reluctant to pay money that will be used for ‘more guns and more munitions’

 

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Sharp-eyed diver finds crusader’s ancient sword on Israeli seabed

 

Metre-long relic, encrusted with marine organisms, is believed to be about 900 years old

 

Reuters in Caesarea
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Latvia is first country to reimpose lockdown in Europe’s new Covid wave

 

Baltic state once seen as coronavirus success story announces month of restrictions including curfew

 

Pjotr Sauer in Moscow
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FBI raids Washington mansion linked to Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska

 

  • US agents conduct search at property in capital’s north-west
  • Putin associate sanctioned by US treasury department in 2018

 

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Alec Baldwin kills woman by firing prop gun on film set of Rust

 

Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins airlifted to hospital, where she died, while director Joel Souza also injured

 

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California family found dead on hike killed by extreme heat, sheriff says

 

Deaths of couple, their daughter and their dog in August during hike in Sierra national forest had baffled investigators for months

 

Dani Anguiano in Los Angeles
Fri 22 Oct 2021 00.02 BST
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Shootout in Mexican tourist hotspot of Tulum leaves two women dead

 

Women killed were from Germany and India, believed to be caught in crossfire of clash between drug gangs

 

 
AFP in Mexico City
Thu 21 Oct 2021 22.48 BST
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Haiti gang leader threatens to kill kidnapped US missionaries

 

Wilson Joseph, linked to the 400 Mawozo gang, posts video vowing to ‘put a bullet in the heads’ of 17 captives if demands not met

 

Associated Press in Port-au-Prince
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We made a documentary about poverty by turning its subjects into film-makers

 

People tell their stories better and gain life skills when they’re treated as equal participants, not issues to be reported on

 

Thu 21 Oct 2021 13.00 BST

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/21/documentary-poverty-film-makers-made-in-bury-britain

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Nasa announces uncrewed flights around the Moon to begin in February 2022

 

The Orion capsule will be launched on the Space Launch System, paving the way for the resumption of people to walk on Earth’s satellite again

 

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Erdogan orders removal of 10 ambassadors, including US envoy

 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ordered 10 foreign ambassadors who called for the release of a jailed philanthropist to be declared persona non grata

 

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23 October 2021, 16:58
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The man is totally nuts....Like that time  ( a couple of years ago I believe) when he ordered Turkey to buy important heavy weapons from Russia  even though Turkey is still member of NATO....
 
Or  a few years back when ( with ISIS in full progress )  Kurdish men and women were fighting them and trying not to let them get into Turkey ( and consequently Europe) from Syria ( heavy fights going on  in Kobane, just a few kilometers away from the border)....Many Kurds died in order to prevent that...We Europeans can only be grateful to them because of that
 
What did Erdogan do? He plotted and organized an attack against Kurds ( that he has been hating since ages and said he wants to exterminate).....That's the man.......

 

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Colombia’s most-wanted drug lord, Otoniel, captured in jungle hideout

 

The leader of the powerful Clan del Golfo, who had a $5m bounty on his head, was seized in a raid by military and police

 

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Agnes Tirop: Kenyan Olympian’s funeral attended by over 1,000 mourners

 

The long-distance runner was buried in her home town in Kenyan highlands after being found stabbed to death

 

Edwin Waita and Reuters in Nandi County
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