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President of Brazil says it ‘makes no sense’ for him to be vaccinated   Jair Bolsonaro’s comments called ‘stupid and selfish’ in country where 600,000 people have di

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Lebanon sentenced me to 10 years in prison for helping sick Palestinian children – I consider my work a badge of honour   As a doctor, I believe turning away from desperately ill kids – be t

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Chile president Piñera faces impeachment after Pandora papers leak   Opposition politicians launch proceedings against Sebastián Piñera over possible irregularities

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Lebanon sentenced me to 10 years in prison for helping sick Palestinian children – I consider my work a badge of honour

 

As a doctor, I believe turning away from desperately ill kids – be they in Palestine or elsewhere – is a far greater crime

 

Sat 30 Oct 2021 20.00 BST

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/31/lebanon-sentenced-me-to-10-years-in-prison-for-helping-sick-palestinian-children-i-consider-my-work-a-badge-of-honour

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Greece lets boat packed with Afghan refugees dock after four days at sea

 

Vessel allowed to disembark almost 400 people in Aegean port of Kos in ‘unusual and special case’

 

 
Helena Smith in Athens
Sun 31 Oct 2021 17.58 GMT
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Same thing happened here in Italy ( Sicily) in 2019 if I'm not mistaken...At a time when Matteo Salvini of rightwing party Lega ( league) was minister of Interiors ..He left  tens of folks on a boat off a sicilian harbor for more than a week or ten days in real bad conditions health-wise etc.........Then he got tried for that...But parliament court then let him get away with it....No comment
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Jair Bolsonaro booed and cheered as he is honoured by Italian town

 

Far-right Brazilian president given honorary citizenship by Anguillara Veneta

 

Mon 1 Nov 2021 15.51 GMT
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Hungary: anti-Orbán alliance leads ruling party in 2022 election poll

 

Six-party grouping ahead by four points after choosing Péter Márki-Zay as prime ministerial candidate

 

Jon Henley Europe correspondent
Thu 28 Oct 2021 13.30 BST
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Bosnia is in danger of breaking up, warns top international official

 

Exclusive: high representative says threat by Serb separatists to create their own army risks return of conflict

 

Julian Borger World affairs editor
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Possible war crimes on all sides in Ethiopian conflict, says report

 

Joint investigation by UN and Ethiopia details accounts of torture and killing of civilians, and gang-rapes

 

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Nicaraguan exiles see vote as step on Ortega’s road to dictatorship

 

Many Nicaraguans, including the ruling couple’s estranged daughter, see unhappy parallels with the fight against Somoza half a century ago

 

Thu 4 Nov 2021 09.00 GMT

by Tom Phillips in San José

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/04/nicaraguan-exiles-election-daniel-ortega-dictatorship-rosario-murillo

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UN Palestine aid agency is ‘close to collapse’ after funding cuts

 

UK has cut relief grant for Palestinians by more than 50% from £42.5m in 2020 to £20.8m in 2021

 

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor
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Gunmen ambush and kill 69 in Niger’s troubled borderlands

 

Attack on mayor’s delegation adds to 530 already killed by jihadist groups in southwest Niger this year

 

Reuters in Niamey
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Meet the musician singing against Nicaragua’s ‘apocalyptic’ regime

 

Luis Enrique Mejía Godoy once sang odes to the Sandinista rebels but now laments Daniel Ortega’s authoritarian rule

 

Tom Phillips in San José
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‘We are living in terror’: Ethiopians say PM’s tactics have stoked war

 

Many Addis Ababa residents claim Abiy Ahmed’s decision to shoot at enemy is leading to history repeating itself

 

Reporter in Addis Ababa
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Can history teach us anything about the future of war – and peace?

 

A decade on from psychologist Steven Pinker’s declaration that violence is declining, historians show no sign of agreeing a truce

 

Sun 7 Nov 2021 13.00 GMT

by Laura Spinney

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/nov/07/can-history-teach-us-anything-about-the-future-of-war-and-peace

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Palestinian activists’ mobile phones hacked using NSO spyware, says report

 

Investigation finds rights activists working for groups accused by Israel of being terrorist were previously targeted by NSO spyware

 

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‘I was always scared’: inmate who exposed systemic Russian prisoner abuse

 

Sergei Savelyev, now seeking asylum in France, spent years secretly storing videos of rape and torture

 

Mon 8 Nov 2021 07.55 GMT

Andrew Roth Moscow correspondent

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/08/i-was-always-scared-inmate-who-exposed-systemic-russian-prisoner-abuse

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Armed attack on Brazilian Amazon community while delegate at Cop26

 

Witnesses say tents in forest in disputed area of Pará state set alight and residents beaten

 

Mon 8 Nov 2021 11.09 GMT
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Daniel Ortega set to win Nicaraguan election denounced as sham

 

Authoritarian leader who has been in power since 2007 on course to secure another five-year term

 

Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent
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Hacking of activists is latest in long line of cyber-attacks on Palestinians

 

Analysis: while identity of hackers is not known in this case, Palestinians have long been spied on by Israeli military

 

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Europe must seize this chance to help restore democracy in Hungary

 

An opposition united behind a conservative Catholic anti-corruption candidate could be a real challenge to Viktor Orbán’s regime

 

Tue 9 Nov 2021 11.05 GMT

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/09/europe-must-seize-this-chance-to-help-restore-democracy-in-hungary

 

If things won't change I believe Hungary should be simply thrown out of EU

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chilean president Piñera impeached over Pandora papers revelations

 

  • Lower house approval vote sets up trial in Chile’s senate
  • Papers revealed offshore dealings of conservative president

 

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Portuguese UN soldiers investigated in anti-smuggling operation

 

Military planes were allegedly used to smuggle diamonds, drugs and gold out of Central African Republic

 

Sam Jones in Madrid and agencies
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Belarus threatens to cut gas deliveries to EU if sanctioned over border crisis

 

Lukashenko responds to possible sanctions as thousands of migrants camp in freezing temperatures at Poland border

 

 
Andrew Roth in Moscow
Thu 11 Nov 2021 15.14 GMT
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

FW de Klerk, the last president of apartheid South Africa, dies aged 85

 

Last white-minority era ruler leaves behind contentious legacy in country still scarred by system he helped end

 

 
Thu 11 Nov 2021 14.42 GMT
 
 
 
 
 
I'd suggest for everybody to watch the movie "Cry Freedom" about S.Africa....It tells the story of the last period of repression in the country  including S.Biko imprisonment and death and also the Soweto students massacre (600 got killed as they were protesting against the obligation of having to learn Afrikaans in school, a derivative of Dutch language)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Chinese Communist party elevates Xi’s status in ‘historical resolution’

 

Analysts say move is designed to put president on same level as Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping

 

Vincent Ni and agencies
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Orbán rival promises new constitution if he defeats Hungary PM

 

Opposition leader Péter Márki-Zay says he will restore rule of law if he wins next April’s elections

 

 
Jennifer Rankin in Brussels
Thu 11 Nov 2021 15.37 GMT
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

If health and education are essential services in Spain, why not housing?

 

A renters’ movement in Catalonia is saving families from eviction and trying to fill the gap left by the state

 

Thu 11 Nov 2021 12.19 GMT

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2021/nov/11/health-education-spain-housing-renters-catalonia

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Turkey jails Kurdish politician’s wife over miscarriage form typo

 

Başak Demirtaş and her doctor sentenced over ‘falsified’ medical report on her miscarriage

 

Bethan McKernan in Istanbul
Fri 12 Nov 2021 13.46 GMT
 
 

According to her legal team, the teacher was charged with fraud because a doctor’s note for five days of medical leave from work was issued during an appointment on 11 December 2015, but erroneously dated as 14 December, four days later.

Demirtaş then took unpaid leave for the second half of the 2015-16 school year to recover.

“The sentence of [Demirtaş] to 2.5 years of prison for a mere clerical error concerning a medical record is appalling and seems beyond common sense. It just looks so political. It gives the measure of the worrying state of Turkish judiciary”

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/12/wife-of-jailed-kurdish-politician-gets-30-months-in-turkish-prison-after-typo

 

 

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JCB failed to do human rights checks over destruction of Palestinian homes

 

UK government watchdog finds lack of due diligence over potential use of equipment in occupied territories

 

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor
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Cuba braces for unrest as playwright turned activist rallies protesters

 

The Communist party has banned the planned string of pro-democracy marches, saying they are an overthrow attempt

 

Ed Augustin in Havana
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"You Have Not Yet Been Defeated" by Alaa Abd el-Fattah review – a message to the world from an Egyptian prison

 

The jailed activist’s writings, some of them smuggled out of his cell, keep the spirit of the 2011 revolution alive

 

 
Fri 12 Nov 2021 07.30 GMT
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

How risk of kidnap became the cost of an education in Nigeria

 

Abductions are rife in the north of the country, where armed gangs target schools and colleges with apparent impunity

 

Emmanuel Akinwotu, west Africa correspondent, and Alex Uangbaoje in Kaduna
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Son of former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi runs for president

 

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi has spent past decade out of sight after his father was killed in 2011 uprising

 

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor
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