2022 Articles

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Rich countries must stop producing oil and gas by 2034, says study

 

Poorest states should be given until 2050, says research aiming to set out fair way of ending fossil fuel economy

 

Matthew Taylor

Tue 22 Mar 2022 00.01 GMT






https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/22/rich-countries-must-stop-producing-oil-and-gas-by-2034-says-study
 

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‘We have failed’: how California’s homelessness catastrophe is worsening

 

A new Guardian US series reports on a seemingly intractable crisis, and hears from those living on the edge in America’s richest state

 

Sam Levin in Los Angeles

Tue 22 Mar 2022 10.00 GMT








https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/22/california-homelessness-crisis-unhoused-and-unequal
 

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Billionaire MacKenzie Scott gives $436m for US affordable housing

 

Scott, who was formerly married to Jeff Bezos, is part of group of billionaires promising to donate more than half their wealth

 

Associated Press in New York

Tue 22 Mar 2022 16.07 GMT






https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/22/mackenzie-scott-gives-436m-affordable-housing
 

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‘Mysterious’: the $700m superyacht in Italy some say belongs to Putin

 

Activists linked to Alexei Navalny believe the Scheherazade is owned by the Russian president

 

Angela Giuffrida in Marina di Carrara

Tue 22 Mar 2022 19.37 GMT






https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/22/people-clean-it-all-the-time-the-mystery-700m-super-yacht-in-italy-that-some-say-belongs-to-putin
 

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‘People would chase me’: the taxi bike rider breaking Uganda’s taboos

 

Allen Kisakye Butundu faced shock, abuse and shame when she became a boda boda driver, but hopes to inspire other women

 

Tom Collins in Kampala

Fri 25 Mar 2022 08.30 GMT





https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/mar/25/my-husband-refused-to-teach-me-the-taxi-bike-rider-breaking-ugandas-taboos


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda
 

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Why is it judged an indulgence when doctors help the disadvantaged?

 

When we lower our standards, we let ourselves down as well as our patients. We need beacons of moral clarity like Daniel Nour and Paul Farmer

 

Tue 22 Mar 2022 16.30 GMT

Ranjana Srivastava

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/22/why-is-it-judged-an-indulgence-when-doctors-help-the-disadvantaged

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Trial over brutal killings sheds light on MS-13 and power of US street gangs

 

Complex social and political elements swirl round gang – with roots in El Salvador – accused of hacking four US teens to death

 

Edward Helmore in New York

Sat 26 Mar 2022 08.00 GMT





https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/26/ms-13-gang-new-york-long-island-trial
 

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Shanghai begins locking down millions as China’s Covid cases surge

 

China will shut down city in two stages as it sticks to a ‘zero-Covid’ strategy amid growing outbreaks

 

Vincent Ni

Mon 28 Mar 2022 15.50 BST




https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/28/shanghai-to-lock-down-millions-for-mass-testing-as-chinas-covid-cases-surge
 

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Four members of French family kill themselves in Swiss town

 

Teenage boy survives tragedy as police work on theory of ‘collective suicide’

 

AFP in Geneva

Tue 29 Mar 2022 15.38 BST

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/29/four-members-of-french-family-kill-themselves-in-swiss-town

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‘Our top search term is nuclear’: US bunker sales soar as anxiety over Russia rises

 

Amid Russia’s war on Ukraine and a global pandemic, pressure is once again building to think about how people can protect themselves during a crisis

 

Bradley Garrett

Tue 29 Mar 2022 07.00 BST






https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/29/bunker-sales-soar-anxiety-over-russia-rises-ukraine
 

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El Salvador locks down prisons after wave of 87 killings over weekend

 

Government declares state of emergency after arresting more than 600 gang suspects and ordering food restrictions

 

Associated Press

Mon 28 Mar 2022 22.04 BST




https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/28/el-salvador-prisons-gang-killings
 

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‘Slow violence that drives death’: a California port city’s struggle with pollution and shootings

 

Wilmington residents are no stranger to early death – either from air pollution or gun violence – often found in industrial corridors

 

by Adam Mahoney with photographs by Damon Casarez

 

Thu 31 Mar 2022 11.00 BST modified on Thu 31 Mar 2022 12.36 BST

This story is published in collaboration with Grist

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/31/california-port-city-pollution-gun-violence

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Amazon workers in New York City have two words for Jeff Bezos: Ha ha

 

Workers in Staten Island formed the first Amazon union in the US. Their victory makes Bezos’s space flight seem like small fry

 

Mon 4 Apr 2022 11.22 BST

Hamilton Nolan

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/04/amazon-workers-in-new-york-city-have-two-words-for-jeff-bezos-ha-ha

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El Salvador reels as 6,000 people arrested in unprecedented crackdown

 

Authoritarian populist president Nayib Bukele has suspended rights in state of emergency justified as attack on MS13 gang

 

Bryan Avelar in San Salvador and Santa Tecla, and Nina Lakhani

Tue 5 Apr 2022 11.30 BST






https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/apr/05/el-salvador-crackdown-ms13-state-of-emergency
 

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‘I was constantly bullied’: being a Black student in one of Indiana’s whitest districts

 

As the debate about critical race theory rages on, Hallie Watson reflects on the racism that has plagued her school district since she was a child

 

Hallie Watson, as told to Amudalat Ajasa

Wed 6 Apr 2022 11.00 BST






https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/06/black-student-indiana-white-district-critical-race-theory-crt
 

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Brooklyn shooting: over 20 injured, including 10 shot, in subway attack

 

Injured passengers suffer from bullet wounds, smoke inhalation and the physical effects of panic as manhunt under way for shooter

 

Ed Pilkington, Ramon Antonio Vargas and Adam Gabbatt in New York

Tue 12 Apr 2022 20.39 BST







https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/12/brooklyn-shooting-latest-new-york-sunset-park-subway-attack-news-updates
 

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Organized crime and corrupt officials responsible for Mexico’s disappearances, UN says

 

Number of young people disappeared is increasing as total number of cases exceeds 95,000, very few of which are solved

 

Nina Lakhani

Tue 12 Apr 2022 21.53 BST






https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/12/organized-crime-corrupt-officials-mexico-enforced-disappearances-un
 

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US teen overdose deaths double in three years amid fentanyl crisis

 

Deaths rise even as teen drug use drops overall, with researchers pointing to flood of deadly counterfeit pills

 

Erin McCormick

Wed 13 Apr 2022 00.58 BST





https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/12/drug-overdose-deaths-us-high-school-teens-study
 

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EPA opens civil rights investigations over pollution in Cancer Alley

 

Agency will look at whether Black citizens’ rights were violated in polluted industrial corridor in Louisiana

 

Oliver Laughland in New Orleans

Thu 14 Apr 2022 13.54 BST







https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/14/cancer-alley-louisiana-civil-rights-investigations-epa-pollution
 

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Woman who drew up Schindler’s lists during Holocaust dies at 107

 

Mimi Reinhardt was in charge of compiling names of Jews to work in German industrialist’s factory

 

Agence France-Presse in Jerusalem

Fri 8 Apr 2022 15.38 BST







https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/08/mimi-reinhardt-woman-who-drew-up-schindlers-lists-during-holocaust-dies-at-107
 

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How the homelessness crisis hit one of California’s most affordable cities

 

Fresno considered itself a success story in the fight against homelessness. By 2019, things had changed drastically

 

Sun 17 Apr 2022 11.00 BST

by Dani Anguiano in Fresno with photographs by Andri Tambunan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/17/homelessness-california-fresno

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US man gets $450,000 after unwanted work birthday party triggered panic attack

 

Kentucky man says former employer ignored his request not to celebrate his birthday due to his anxiety disorder

 

Maya Yang

Mon 18 Apr 2022 18.17 BST





https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/18/unwanted-office-birthday-party-lawsuit-panic-attack
 

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Gun violence becomes leading cause of death among US youth, data shows

 

A report reveals a 30% increase in firearm-related deaths between 2019 and 2020, including incidents of suicides and accidental shootings

 

Abené Clayton in Los Angeles

Sat 23 Apr 2022 06.00 BST








https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/22/us-gun-violence-leading-cause-of-death-youth
 

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Revealed: top US corporations raising prices on Americans even as profits surge

A Guardian analysis uncovers how companies enriched themselves and their investors while boasting about jacking up prices

Wed 27 Apr 2022 07.00 BST

by Tom Perkins

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/apr/27/inflation-corporate-america-increased-prices-profits

 

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US army replaces cake it stole from Italian girl 77 years ago

 

Meri Mion, 90, was 13 when soldiers took her birthday cake as it cooled on windowsill in San Pietro

 

Angela Giuffrida

Fri 29 Apr 2022 12.16 BST





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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/29/us-army-replaces-cake-stole-italian-girl