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UK: Violence, illegal force, abuse: who will remove G4S from children’s prisons?

 

After another report damning the security giant, at Oakhill secure training centre, Dominic Raab must revoke its contract

 

Wed 3 Nov 2021 12.48 GMT

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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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‘You kind of die’: life without power in the Cañada Real, Spain

 

Little has changed in Europe’s largest shantytown since the UN said the lack of electricity ‘violates children’s rights’ in 2020

 

Sam Jones in the Cañada Real
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Ahmaud Arbery: trial of accused murderers is test for racial justice ‘in the heart of white supremacy’

 

Six months after Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd, the case of a Black man killed while jogging in Georgia is a sterner litmus test

 

Oliver Laughland in Brunswick, Georgia
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Europe once again at centre of Covid pandemic, says WHO

 

Cases at near-record levels and 500,000 more deaths forecast by February

 

Jon Henley Europe correspondent
Thu 4 Nov 2021 14.45 GMT
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Half world’s fossil fuel assets could become worthless by 2036 in net zero transition

 

$11tn fossil fuel asset crash could cause 2008-style financial crisis, warns new study

 

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Amanda Knox: “In Italy there is a prejudice against me, as in the US there is for Chico Forti”

 

about 8 hours ago

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.italy24news.com/News/250604.html

 

 

https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/enrico-chico-forti-a-divisive-case.html

 

 

 

I know him...Trento is a small town....He left many years ago and started travelling around the world as a windsurfer.....Then he fell in love, got married  and settled down in Miami

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Cancún tourists rush to shelter as armed gang storms beach at luxury hotel

 

Two people killed at Hyatt Ziva in Puerto Morelos in what state officials say was confrontation between drug dealers

 

David Agren in Mexico City
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How the climate crisis is forcing Americans to relocate – video

 

In the last few years, hurricanes and flooding have devastated parts of the American south. Smoke-billowing wildfires have torn through millions of acres of the west coast. In the south-west, people are suffering through record droughts. Sections of the US are becoming increasingly inhospitable. Adam Gabbatt investigates how these dramatic shifts in the climate are forcing Americans to relocate at alarming rates

 

Adam Gabbatt, Tom Silverstone and Katie Lamborn

Fri 5 Nov 2021 11.10 GMT

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2021/nov/05/how-the-climate-crisis-is-forcing-americans-to-relocate-video

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‘The time for change is now’: demonstrators around the world demand action on climate crisis

 

Up to 100,000 people expected at Glasgow march amid criticism over heavy policing at Cop26 summit

 

Sat 6 Nov 2021 10.32 GMT
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Astroworld festival concert crush leaves at least eight dead

 

Officials in Texas say several others injured when crowd surged towards the stage during show in Houston

 

Alexandra Villarreal and agencies
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Discovery of Pompeii slaves’ room sheds rare light on real Roman life

 

Cramped room contains beds, chamber pot and other items used in slave family’s ‘precarious’ existence

 

Angela Giuffrida, Rome correspondent
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‘I can’t explain how I am still alive’: Dr Denis Mukwege on risking his life to save African women

 

The Nobel prize-winning gynaecologist counts Michaela Coel, Jill Biden and a small army of Congolese women among his fans. Yet he still won’t call himself a hero

 

 
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Several people ‘severely injured’ in knife attack on German train

 

Police in Bavaria arrest man after incident, with reason for attack ‘still unclear’

 

Agence France-Presse
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Oil tanker explodes in Sierra Leone, killing at least 99 people

 

Crowds had reportedly gathered to collect leaking fuel after a bus struck the tanker in a Freetown (capital) suburb

 

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At least 19 killed as truck smashes into cars at toll booth in Mexico

 

The crash sparked an inferno that also injured at least three people on the highway between Mexico City and Puebla state

 

The Associated Press
Sun 7 Nov 2021 03.52 GMT
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

‘Extraordinarily rare’: intact 1,200-year-old canoe recovered from Wisconsin lake

 

The 15-foot dugout canoe was first noticed by a maritime

archeologist and her friend while joyriding on underwater scooters

 

Sun 7 Nov 2021 11.00 GMT
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

US citizens v FBI: Will the government face charges for illegal surveillance?

 

Muslim citizens are suing the FBI for subjecting them to undercover surveillance after 9/11 in violation of rights

 

Sun 7 Nov 2021 10.00 GMT
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

On the frozen frontiers of Europe with the migrants caught in a lethal game

 

Asylum seekers are pawns in a conflict between Poland and Belarus

 

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Museum celebrates Barcelona’s disappearing Gypsy heritage

 

Artefacts reflect joys and sorrows of a community persecuted in Spain since Catholic reconquest in 1492

 

Stephen Burgen in Barcelona
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French bishops kneel in penance over Catholic church’s role in child abuse

 

Conference in Lourdes recognised that church had allowed abuses to become ‘systemic’

 

 
Agence France-Presse
Sat 6 Nov 2021 22.10 GMT
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Two more Mexican journalists killed as reporters condemn worsening violence

 

Veteran reporter Fredy López Arévalo shot and killed inside his home while photojournalist Alfredo Cardoso taken by gunmen

 

 
David Agren in Mexico City
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Dean Stockwell, Quantum Leap and Blue Velvet actor, dies aged 85

 

Versatile actor had worked in Hollywood since childhood, and was Oscar nominated for his role in 1988 comedy Married to the Mob

 

Tue 9 Nov 2021 11.02 GMT
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Cop26 sets course for disastrous heating of more than 2.4C, says key report

 

Research from world’s top climate analysis coalition contrasts sharply with last week’s optimism

 

Fiona Harvey in Glasgow
Tue 9 Nov 2021 14.00 GMT
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Germany urges unity as crisis worsens for migrants at Poland-Belarus border

 

German interior minister says Poland needs support to deal with ‘hybrid threat’ of politically organised migration

 

Andrew Roth in Moscow with agencies
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Dean Stockwell: cult indie character actor who refused to fit in

 

At once an insider yet never quite Hollywood enough, Stockwell’s prolific career was at its best when he showed his own alienation

 

Tue 9 Nov 2021 13.04 GMT

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Teen rescued after showing domestic violence hand signal known on TikTok, police say

 

Kentucky driver called police after seeing ‘female passenger making hand gestures known to represent violence at home’

 

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Mexico army gives drug cartels free rein as critics claim ‘non-aggression pact’

 

The Viagras and the Jalisco New Generation cartel are vying for influence but soldiers merely patrol the lines between territories

 

Associated Press in Aguililla, Michoacán
Mon 8 Nov 2021 18.06 GMT
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Sir Geoffrey Cox, tireless defender of tax haven against the Foreign Office

 

The ex-attorney general has spent months at a corruption inquiry – acting not for a UK constituent but the PM of the British Virgin Islands

 

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor
Tue 9 Nov 2021 12.59 GMT
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

‘I will never get my eyes back’: the Chilean woman blinded by police who is running for senate

 

Fabiola Campillai was shot in the face by a teargas canister as she walked to work in 2019 amid nationwide protests against social inequality. Now she is running for office as an independent

 

Tue 9 Nov 2021 10.00 GMT

John Bartlett in Santiago

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/nov/09/fabiola-campillai-chile-blinded-by-police-senate-candidate

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A wealth of sorrow: why Nigeria’s abundant oil reserves are really a curse

 

It is known as the resource curse: assets that should bring wealth and stability but instead lead to corruption and poverty. And for Nigeria, oil is the culprit

 

Kenneth Mohammed
Tue 9 Nov 2021 07.31 GMT
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

‘She did not deserve to die like this’: family of Agnes Wanjiru seek justice

 

Reports that British soldier confessed to Kenyan woman’s murder in 2012 have deeply affected relatives in Nanyuki

 

Peter Muiruri in Nanyuki
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Paella, ‘icon of the Mediterranean diet’, given protected status

 

Valencia declares beloved – and often abused – dish an item of cultural significance

 

Sam Jones in Madrid
Wed 10 Nov 2021 11.48 GMT
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
It's delicious.....When I was in Spain I'd eat it almost every day...Esp in Valencia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A woman murdered every month: is this Greece’s moment of reckoning on femicide?

 

Lax punishments, police inaction and inadequate laws serve to embolden abusers, say campaigners – and stark figures bear them out

 

Ruth Michaelson and Maria Sidiropoulou in Athens
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Make extreme wealth extinct: it’s the only way to avoid climate breakdown

 

Pandering to the rich has got us into this mess. The correlation between wealth and polluting behaviour could not be clearer

 

Wed 10 Nov 2021 06.00 GMT

George Monbiot

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/10/extreme-wealth-polluting-climate-breakdown-rich

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cop26 is doomed, and the hollow promise of ‘net zero’ is to blame

 

Net zero is popular among polluters for good reason – it’s toothless compared to emissions restrictions and a carbon tax

 

Wed 10 Nov 2021 08.00 GMT

Yanis Varoufakis (fmr.finance minister & co-founder of DiEM25 Democracy in Europe Movement)

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/10/cop26-doomed-net-zero

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Rust shooting: head of lighting sues Alec Baldwin and others

 

Serge Svetnoy alleges negligence over bullet that narrowly missed him and killed friend Halyna Hutchins

 

Associated Press
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First Nations in Ontario could receive billions in back-rent after court ruling

 

A treaty reimburses Indigenous communities for wealth extracted from their lands but payment has remained at C$4 a year since 1874

 

Leyland Cecco in Toronto
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