2022 Articles

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Deutsche Bank HQ in Frankfurt raided over suspected money laundering

 

Officers from financial regulator, federal police and public prosecutor raid Germany’s largest lender

 

Kalyeena Makortoff

Fri 29 Apr 2022 14.57 BST







https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/apr/29/deutsche-bank-hq-frankfurt-raided-suspected-money-laundering
 

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‘Head coach wants to play’: the US drug sting that led to BVI premier’s arrest

 

Andrew Fahie is due in court on drug charges in Miami after arrest following months-long undercover operation

 

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Fri 29 Apr 2022 13.20 BST








https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/29/head-coach-wants-play-us-drug-sting-bvi-premier-arrest-andrew-fahie
 

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‘Femicide nation’: murder of young woman casts spotlight on Mexico’s gender violence crisis

 

Discovery of teen’s body has sparked a nationwide outcry and protests, following the murders of 1,000 women last year

 

Tom Phillips and Lillian Perlmutter in Mexico City

Tue 26 Apr 2022 17.00 BST







https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/apr/26/murder-young-woman-mexico-femicide
 

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University of California to waive tuition for Native students – but not for all

 

Native students who aren’t a member of a federally recognized tribe are dismayed that they are left out of the free tuition program

 

Hallie Golden

Sat 30 Apr 2022 11.00 BST







https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/30/university-california-waive-tuition-native-students
 

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Loud boom and streaking fireball stirs panic in three US states

 

The bolide, which disintegrated in Louisiana, was also reportedly spotted in Arkansas and Mississippi

 

Associated Press

Fri 29 Apr 2022 00.21 BST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/28/loud-boom-and-streaking-fireball-stirs-panic-in-three-us-states

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Panic at Israeli airport as US family packs unexploded bombshell for flight home

 

Passengers scramble in Ben Gurion’s departure hall after tourists show ‘souvenir’ collected in Golan Heights

 

Reuters in Jerusalem

Fri 29 Apr 2022 02.56 BST






https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/29/panic-at-israeli-airport-as-us-family-packs-unexploded-bombshell-for-flight-home
 

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California’s population shrinks for second year in a row

 

Officials blamed the decline on lower birth rates, higher deaths from the pandemic and fewer people moving in from other states

 

Guardian staff and agencies

Mon 2 May 2022 22.42 BST







https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/02/california-population-decline-trend-covid
 

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White South African in court for shooting black woman he claims he ‘mistook for hippo’

 

Paul Hendrik van Zyl, 77, shot and wounded the woman while she was fishing in a river with her partner

 

Jason Burke in Johannesburg

Thu 28 Apr 2022 19.53 BST





https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/28/white-south-african-in-court-for-shooting-black-woman-on-his-farm
 

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Largest US cave figures, about 1,000 years old, discovered in Alabama

 

Cave in northern Alabama home to carvings that experts say were probably made during the Woodland period

 

Maya Yang

Thu 5 May 2022 13.20 BST








https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/05/largest-us-cave-figures-alabama-carvings
 

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‘Medical tourists’ are travelling the world in search of the elixir of life

 

There have always been charlatans offering a cure for ageing, and cheap travel and lax laws have made it even easier for them

 

Thu 5 May 2022 12.00 BST

Peter Ward

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/05/medical-tourists-are-travelling-the-world-in-search-of-the-elixir-of-life

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‘A five-day wait for $5,000’: the man who queues for the uber-rich

 

Robert Samuel’s business has put him at the forefront of cultural events – and shines a light on the state of capitalism in 2022

 

Adam Gabbatt

Thu 5 May 2022 08.32 BST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/05/a-five-day-wait-for-5000-the-man-who-queues-for-the-uber-rich

 

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Swiss police seize 500kg of cocaine at Nespresso factory

 

Workers at plant in Romont alert authorities to mysterious white powder found in sacks of coffee beans

 

Agence France-Presse in Geneva

Thu 5 May 2022 20.18 BST








https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/05/swiss-police-seize-cocaine-nespresso-factory
 

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‘It’s total terror’: Colombian cartel retaliates over kingpin’s arrest

 

Otoniel’s Gulf Clan militiamen shut down northern regions, blocking roads and holding residents hostage in their houses

 

Joe Parkin Daniels in Medellín

Sun 8 May 2022 12.10 BST










https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/08/gulf-clan-cartel-armed-strike-colombia-otoniel-dairo-antonio-usuga
 

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Three US tourists die in Bahamas resort after taking ill

 

Police investigating deaths following nausea and vomiting but foul play ‘not suspected’

 

Associated Press in Mexico City

Sun 8 May 2022 02.01 BST








https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/08/three-us-tourists-die-in-bahamas-resort-after-taking-ill
 

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‘No telling what we’ll find’: bodies in Lake Mead spark mob speculation

 

The dropping lake level exposed a second set of human remains within a week, flooding Las Vegas with lore about organized crime

 

Associated Press

Tue 10 May 2022 12.59 BST







https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/10/lake-mead-bodies-mob-speculation
 

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Ordure! Ordure! Canadian MP sorry for logging on to session from toilet stall

 

Liberal Shafqat Ali promises never to repeat ‘this error’ after fellow MP deplores affront to ‘cathedral of Canadian democracy’

 

 

Leyland Cecco in Toronto

Tue 10 May 2022 17.29 BST








https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/10/canadian-mp-toilet-stall-virtual-session

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Passenger with no flying experience lands plane after pilot incapacitated

 

Air traffic controller guided descent to Boca Raton airport in Florida after passenger radioed: ‘I’ve got a serious situation here’

 

Maya Yang

Wed 11 May 2022 14.03 BST








https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/11/passenger-lands-plane-florida-pilot-incapacitated
 

Edited May 11, 2022 by umbertino

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‘Completely devastating’: US passes 1m overdose deaths since records began

 

2021 was a record year for overdose deaths with an estimated 107,622, CDC says, an increase of 15% from the previous year

 

Melody Schreiber

Wed 11 May 2022 15.43 BST











https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/11/us-overdose-deaths-total-data
 

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New York: at least 10 reportedly killed in Buffalo supermarket shooting

 

Buffalo police said earlier Saturday afternoon that the alleged shooter was also in custody

 

Edward Helmore in New York

Sat 14 May 2022 21.49 BST









https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/14/buffalo-shooting-supermarket-new-york
 

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Caesar’s favourite herb was the Viagra of ancient Rome. Until climate change killed it off

 

Perfume, tonic – even love potion – silphium was prized by the ancient Romans, but in its success lay the seeds of its own downfall

 

James Tapper

Sun 15 May 2022 10.00 BST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/15/caesars-favourite-herb-was-the-viagra-of-ancient-rome-until-climate-change-killed-it-off

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South LA’s ‘daycrawler’: the man who’s captured the aftermath of gun violence for 20 years

 

‘Most outlets aren’t writing about what happened on 81st and Figueroa,’ says Nasser Baker, whose A Million Hits accounts have become a staple in the news diet of many Angelenos

 

Abené Clayton in Los Angeles

Sun 15 May 2022 11.00 BST











https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/15/a-million-hits-la-gun-violence-california
 

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California parishioners subdue gunman in fatal church attack

 

Suspect arrested after churchgoers tie him up with cord following second US mass shooting of weekend

 

Associated Press in Laguna Woods

Mon 16 May 2022 08.01 BST







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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/16/shooting-at-southern-california-church-leaves-one-dead-and-five-wounded
 

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Pollution responsible for one in six deaths across planet, scientists warn

 

Toxic air, water and soil are ‘existential threat to human and planetary health’, says global review

 

Damian Carrington Environment editor

Tue 17 May 2022 23.30 BST











https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/17/pollution-responsible-one-in-six-deaths-across-planet
 

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The Christian leader trying to break America’s link between faith and guns

 

Peter Cook says in the aftermath of the Buffalo racist shooting white Christian denominations have a duty to act

 

Edward Helmore

Thu 19 May 2022 07.00 BST










https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/19/buffalo-shooting-peter-cook-christians-guns
 

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Historic heatwave poised to hit dozens of US states this weekend

 

Temperatures expected to be 20F to 30F above average for this time of year, breaking records and raising health fears

 

Gabrielle Canon

Fri 20 May 2022 20.36 BST








https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/20/us-heatwave-weekend-temperatures-climate-crisis















 

Spain braces for heatwave of ‘extraordinary intensity’

 

Country warned of risk of orange dust storms as forecasters predict France will see hottest May on record

 

Sam Jones in Madrid and Jon Henley in Paris

Fri 20 May 2022 05.00 BST








https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/20/spain-braces-for-heat-wave-of-extraordinary-intensity
 

 

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Average price of gas surpasses $6 a gallon for first time in California

 

The price is a record high for the state and follows a record high average price nationwide at nearly $4.59 a gallon

 

Dani Anguiano in Los Angeles

Thu 19 May 2022 21.59 BST









https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/19/california-gas-average-6-gallon-record-high