umbertino Posted October 1, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2021 Brazil hospital chain accused of hiding Covid deaths and giving unproven drugs Group of whistleblowing doctors gave 10,000-page dossier to investigators last month with allegations against Prevent Senior Tom Phillips and Flávia Milhorance in Rio de Janeiro Wed 29 Sep 2021 19.45 BST https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/sep/29/brazil-prevent-senior-hospital-chain-covid-accusations 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 2, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2021 Erdoğan and Putin hold face-to-face talks over Syria ceasefire Turkey’s president wants to shore up the truce because it has been ruptured repeatedly in the last 18 months Bethan McKernan in Istanbul Wed 29 Sep 2021 17.06 BST https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/29/erdogan-and-putin-hold-face-to-face-talks-over-syria-ceasefire Syrian exiles forced to prop up regime with fees for avoiding conscription Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and Siraj reveal how refugees are pressured for cash Ali Al Ibrahim Tue 28 Sep 2021 13.49 BST https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/28/why-syrian-exiles-are-having-to-pay-up-to-skip-military-service 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 3, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2021 Mass protests in Brazil call for Jair Bolsonaro’s impeachment Crowds parade through cities as polling shows president’s ratings sinking to new depths Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro Sat 2 Oct 2021 19.53 BST https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/02/mass-protests-in-brazil-call-for-bolsonaros-impeachment 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 3, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2021 Draghi, Scholz or Macron? Merkel’s crown as Europe’s leader up for grabs The three contenders to take the helm for the continent as era of outgoing German chancellor draws to a close Angela Giuffrida in Rome, Kate Connolly in Berlin and Jon Henley in Paris Sun 3 Oct 2021 11.51 BSTLast modified on Sun 3 Oc https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/03/draghi-scholz-or-macron-merkels-crown-as-europes-leader-up-for-grabs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 3, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2021 Philippines' Duterte says he is retiring from politics, but not everyone is convinced October 2, 20217:54 PM CEST By Karen Lema https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/philippine-president-duterte-says-he-is-retiring-politics-2021-10-02/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 4, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2021 War crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Libya since 2016, says UN Fact-finding mission says migrants and detainees particularly exposed to violations since civil war Peter Beaumont Mon 4 Oct 2021 14.21 BSTLast modified on Mon 4 Oct https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/04/war-crimes-and-crimes-against-humanity-committed-in-libya-since-2016-says-un 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 4, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2021 Ethiopia expels ‘meddling’ UN staff as famine deepens in Tigray without aid Seven senior officials responsible for ‘delivering lifesaving aid’ told to leave amid de facto blockade of food, medicine and fuel Georgina Quach Fri 1 Oct 2021 15.50 BST https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/oct/01/ethiopia-expels-meddling-un-staff-as-famine-deepens-in-tigray-without-aid 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 8, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2021 Reports of physical and sexual violence as Libya arrests 5,000 migrants in a week Raids by the security forces leave at least one man dead, as official observers decry ‘inhumane’ detention conditions Fri 8 Oct 2021 07.00 BST https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/oct/08/reports-of-violence-libya-arrests-5000-migrants 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 8, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2021 On Monday, the first findings from an independent fact-finding mission commissioned by the UN’s Human Rights Council found that “murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, persecution and other inhumane acts committed against migrants [in Libya] form part of a systematic and widespread attack directed at this population, in furtherance of a state policy” which may amount to crimes against humanity 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 8, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2021 ‘They wanted to kill me’: the lawyer taking on police brutality in Kenya Almost 20 years ago, a police shooting left David Makara without an arm and facing jail. Inspired by the blind lawyer who saved him, he now defends others facing injustice Sarah Johnson Tue 5 Oct 2021 11.01 BST https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/oct/05/they-wanted-to-kill-me-the-lawyer-taking-on-police-brutality-in-kenya 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 9, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2021 Former Iranian president Abolhassan Bani-Sadr dies aged 88 First president after 1979 Islamic revolution clashed with clerics and fled to exile in France a year later Reuters in Paris Sat 9 Oct 2021 13.00 BST https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/09/former-iranian-president-abolhassan-bani-sadr-dies-aged-88 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 9, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2021 Saudi aide accused of directing Khashoggi murder edges back to power Saud al-Qahtani, aide to Mohammed bin Salman, hailed as patriot on pro-government social media Martin Chulov Middle East correspondent Fri 8 Oct 2021 18.29 BST https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/08/saudi-aide-accused-of-directing-khashoggi-moves-closer-back-to-power 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 9, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2021 Spies, lies and doublethink: Lea Ypi on growing up in Europe’s last communist state She believed her parents loved Enver Hoxha’s Stalinist regime. But once Albania’s communist system collapsed, Lea Ypi began to realise nothing was as it seemed … Sat 9 Oct 2021 13.00 BST Aida Edemariam https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/09/spies-lies-and-doublethink-lea-ypi-on-growing-up-in-europes-last-communist-state 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 10, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2021 Sebastian Kurz to quit as Austrian chancellor due to corruption inquiry Coalition partner, the Green party, demanded Kurz go after prosecutors announced investigation Associated Press Sat 9 Oct 2021 19.05 BST https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/09/sebastian-kurz-to-quit-as-austrian-chancellor-due-to-corruption-inquiry Sebastian Kurz departure is further blow to Europe’s centre-right Resignation of Austrian chancellor follows Germany’s CDU crashing to its worst federal election result Philip Oltermann in Berlin Sun 10 Oct 2021 15.53 BST https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/10/sebastian-kurz-departure-further-blow-europe-centre-right 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 11, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2021 ‘We have to show courage’: the Philippines mothers taking Duterte and his ‘war on drugs’ to court Up to 30,000 are believed to have died since the president urged police to start killing drug users – now their families want justice Rebecca Ratcliffe South-east Asia correspondent Mon 11 Oct 2021 00.45 BST https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/11/we-have-to-show-courage-the-philippines-mothers-taking-duterte-and-his-war-on-drugs-to-court 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
md11fr8dawg Posted October 11, 2021 Report Share Posted October 11, 2021 30 minutes ago, umbertino said: Duterte This guy is a political Thug and killer. Yep electiond DO have consequences!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 11, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2021 (edited) 37 minutes ago, md11fr8dawg said: This guy is a political Thug and killer. Yep electiond DO have consequences!! He definitely is...In the beginning he tried to pass in the eyes of Flipinos as the savior and the all problems solver...He lied.... Thug, killer, monster..A sort of Pol Pot ( Cambodia bloody dictator, who had a degree in philiosphy but then claimed he was going to reduce Cambodia population of 7M to a 1M of real ( in his personal idea of it) of realComunists....) Edited October 11, 2021 by umbertino 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 11, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2021 (edited) He definitely is...In the beginning he tried to pass in the eyes of Flipinos as the savior and the all problems solver...He lied.... Thug, killer, monster..A sort of Pol Pot ( Cambodia bloody dictator, who had a degree in philosphy but then claimed he was going to reduce Cambodia population of 7M to a 1M of real ( in his personal idea of it) of real Comunists if that was the price to pay in order to achieve his goal....) He mistrusted( and killed a lot of them) all intellectuals and men/ women with a minimal level of culture, education.....OR put them in concentration camps for " re-education"...If one spoke one or more foreign languages....That was the end for them nd he was an intellectual ..Had studied in Paris at the Sorbonne University if I'm not mistaken Edited October 11, 2021 by umbertino 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 11, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2021 Trial opens in Burkina Faso over killing of revolutionary hero Thomas Sankara Fourteen men, including an ex-president, on trial 34 years after assassination of icon of pan-Africanism Agence France-Presse in Ouagadougou Mon 11 Oct 2021 10.47 BST https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/11/thomas-sankara-trial-burkina-faso 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 11, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2021 (edited) Bolsonaro blocks free tampons and pads for disadvantaged women in Brazil Campaigners say president’s veto is ‘absurd and inhumane’ in country where period poverty keeps one in four girls out of school Jo Griffin Mon 11 Oct 2021 12.02 BST https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/oct/11/bolsonaro-blocks-free-tampons-and-pads-for-disadvantaged-women-in-brazil That's the man in charge of the 2nd biggest Country of the Americas.......Thank God 2002 ( election year) is nearing fast ( but not fast enough)....Lula for President Edited October 11, 2021 by umbertino 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 12, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2021 Cuba denies opposition permission for march in Havana after July protests Letter says protest planned for 15 November has ‘the open intention of changing the political system in Cuba’ Reuters in Havana Tue 12 Oct 2021 21.11 BST https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/12/cuba-denies-opposition-permission-for-march-in-havana-after-july-protests 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 12, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2021 Corporate Accountability review – complicity in Argentinian state terror exposed Jonathan Perel’s low-key doc focuses on the companies, still in business, which collaborated with the killings and torture that followed 1976 coup Cath Clarke Tue 12 Oct 2021 13.00 BST https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/oct/12/corporate-accountability-review-complicity-in-argentinian-state-terror-exposed 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 13, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2021 Bolsonaro must be held criminally responsible for assault on the Amazon, say activists In a petition to the international criminal court experts said the ‘mass deforestation’ poses a clear danger Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro Tue 12 Oct 2021 07.00 BST https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/12/bolsonaro-must-be-held-criminally-responsible-for-assault-on-the-amazon-say-activists 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 13, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2021 Is America experiencing an unofficial general strike? Across the country, people are refusing to return to backbreaking or mind-numbing low-wage jobs Wed 13 Oct 2021 11.16 BST https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/13/american-workers-general-strike-robert-reich 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umbertino Posted October 13, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2021 ‘Brazil is a racist country, statistically’: Luedji Luna, the bold voice of Bahia Amid hostile rhetoric from her president, the singer is trying to foreground community and love in her new, rapturously received album Mon 7 Dec 2020 10.58 GMT Dom Phillips https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/dec/07/brazil-is-a-racist-country-statistically-luedji-luna-the-bold-voice-of-bahia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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