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More than 100 murders in 18 months in Syria’s al-Hawl camp, UN says

 

Many victims at detention facility for families of Islamic State fighters have been women, top official says

 

Agence France-Presse in Geneva
Tue 28 Jun 2022 19.00 BST








https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/28/more-than-100-murders-in-18-months-in-syrias-al-hawl-camp-un-says
 
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Erdoğan gains from lifting Sweden and Finland Nato veto with US fighter jet promise

 

Analysis: deal between Biden and Erdoğan is sealed in Madrid after Nordic countries vow to control support for Kurdish terrorism

 

 
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor
Wed 29 Jun 2022 19.59 BST








https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/29/erdogan-gains-from-lifting-sweden-and-finland-nato-veto-with-us-fighter-jet-promise

Erdogan is a dictator who stated  many times he wants to exterminate the Kurds...Men,women, children

 
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‘Blood money’: Europe’s secretive trade in Syrian phosphates

 

Hidden imports provide economic lifeline to Assad and funds for a Russian oligarch under EU sanctions

 

Charlotte Alfred, Mohammad Bassiki, Bashar Deeb and Oleg Oganov
Thu 30 Jun 2022 12.00 BST









https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/30/europe-syria-phosphates-trade-assad
 
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Erdogan launches new ethnic cleansing campaign against the Kurds

 

Amidst the chaos in the world, Turkey’s double game is rewarding to commit more atrocities against Kurds in Syria and Iraq

 

Washington Kurdish Institute

By: Sierwan Najmaldin Karim

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://dckurd.org/2022/04/28/erdogan-wars-on-kurds/

 

 

 

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A quarter of Americans open to taking up arms against government, poll says

 

Survey of 1,000 registered US voters also reveals that most Americans agree government is ‘corrupt and rigged’

 

 

Thu 30 Jun 2022 16.48 BST








https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/30/poll-americans-guns-against-government

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

US supreme court rules against EPA and hobbles government power to limit harmful emissions

 

Court sides with Republican states as ruling represents landmark moment in rightwing effort to dismantle ‘regulatory state’

 

Oliver Milman in New York
Thu 30 Jun 2022 15.38 BST









https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/30/us-supreme-court-ruling-restricts-federal-power-greenhouse-gas-emissions
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‘Napalm girl’ Phan Thi Kim Phuc receives final burn treatment after 50 years

 

Phuc, pictured in 1972 running from napalm attack during Vietnam war, has final laser treatment in Miami

 

Rebecca Ratcliffe South-east Asia correspondent
Fri 1 Jul 2022 13.40 BST







https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/01/napalm-girl-vietnam-war-phan-thi-kim-phuc-final-burn-treatment


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Thi_Kim_Phuc
 
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Erdoğan gains from lifting Sweden and Finland Nato veto with US fighter jet promise

 

Analysis: deal between Biden and Erdoğan is sealed in Madrid after Nordic countries vow to control support for Kurdish terrorism

 

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor
Wed 29 Jun 2022 19.59 BST





https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/29/erdogan-gains-from-lifting-sweden-and-finland-nato-veto-with-us-fighter-jet-promise


Sorry but to me he
has been, is and will always be a bastard dictator and a Kurds-murderer
 
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Palestinian Authority routinely tortures detainees, says rights group

 

Human Rights Watch calls for donors to cut off funding to security forces and urges international court to investigate

 

Associated Press
Fri 1 Jul 2022 09.37 BST






https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/01/palestinian-authority-routinely-tortures-detainees-says-human-rights-watch
 
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New York holds special legislative session to pass gun control law

 

Move comes in response to supreme court ruling that gutted state’s century-old handgun licensing law

 

Associated Press in Albany, New York
Fri 1 Jul 2022 13.42 BST
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The US supreme court has declared war on the Earth’s future

 

In a major environmental case, the court has made clear that it would rather represent the interests of corporations and the super-rich than the needs and desires of the vast majority of Americans – or people on Earth

 

Fri 1 Jul 2022 13.46 BST

Kate Aronoff

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/01/the-us-supreme-court-just-declared-war-on-the-earths-future

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Amazon wild west: where drugs, fish and logging are big money but life is cheap

 

Illegal businesses form an interlocking web in the Brazilian remote region where Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were killed, threatening Indigenous communities and local ecology

 

Fri 1 Jul 2022 07.00 BST

by Oliver Laughland and Roberto Kaz on the Itaquaí River

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/01/amazon-brazil-drugs-fish-logging-dom-phillips-bruno-pereira

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‘A bloodbath’: refugees reel from deadly Melilla mass crossing

 

Human rights groups say there have been no autopsies or identification of the 23 people killed trying to cross into Spain

 

Ashifa Kassam in Madrid
Thu 30 Jun 2022 18.37 BST












https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/30/a-bloodbath-refugees-reel-from-deadly-melilla-mass-crossing
 
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‘Perfect storm’ of crises is widening global inequality, says UN chief

 

Exclusive: António Guterres says growing north and south divide is ‘morally unacceptable’ and dangerous

 

Karen McVeigh in Lisbon
Sat 2 Jul 2022 08.00 BST
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Alarm as US supreme court takes a hatchet to church-state separation

 

A series of court decisions has raised fears that the conservative majority are forcing religion back into the US political system

 

David Smith Washington bureau chief
Sat 2 Jul 2022 07.00 BST










https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/jul/02/us-supreme-court-religion-church-state-separation
 
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Turkey hit with soaring prices as inflation nears 80%

 

Growth in annual prices rose from 73.5% in May to 78.6% in June, but real rate could be double official figure

 

Mon 4 Jul 2022 13.45 BST






https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jul/04/turkey-hit-with-soaring-prices-as-inflation-reaches-24-year-high-erdogan












 

Outrage after video of police fatally shooting Jayland Walker released

 

Walker, 25, was killed 27 June and sustained more than 60 wounds as multiple officers shot at him, but footage was released Sunday

 

Guardian staff and agencies
Mon 4 Jul 2022 13.30 BST






https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/04/jayland-walker-shooting-body-cam-video-outrage
 
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10-year-old rape victim forced to travel from Ohio to Indiana for abortion

 

Case places prominent anti-abortion figures in position of balancing rights of women and girls while defending restrictions

 

Sun 3 Jul 2022 18.55 BST






https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/03/ohio-indiana-abortion-rape-victim
 
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Michigan police to conduct review after officers used images of Black men as target practice

 

Photos showing targets were taken during a Boy Scouts field trip to the Farmington Hills police department in April

 

Mon 4 Jul 2022 14.23 BST







https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/04/michigan-police-department-images-black-men-target-practice
 
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Zimbabwe to introduce gold coins as local currency tumbles

 

Soaring inflation piling pressure on country already struggling with shortages and stirring memories of Mugabe chaos

 

Reuters in Harare
Tue 5 Jul 2022 08.26 BST







https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/05/zimbabwe-to-introduce-gold-coins-as-local-currency-tumbles
 
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Public lands are Americans’ birthright. It’s our duty to defend them against new landgrabs

 

How one couple helped save vast areas of wilderness in the 1940s – and provided a map for protecting them today

 

Nate Schweber
Tue 5 Jul 2022 09.00 BST
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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‘Go home’: Honduran islanders fights against crypto colonialists

 

The battle over land rights and sovereignty on the island of Roatán has galvanized the whole country

 

Jeff Ernst in Crawfish Rock
Tue 5 Jul 2022 10.00 BST







https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/05/honduras-land-rights-fight-crypto-colonialists
 
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A moment that changed me: I fled the Gaza blockade to study – but my freedom came at a cost

 

Living in Turkey has opened my mind and given me a future. But leaving my family behind has filled me with guilt

 

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It’s democracy v plutocracy – this is the endgame for our planet

 

The US supreme court is helping to destroy our climate. But it was a much smaller decision, closer to home, that was the final straw for me

 

Wed 6 Jul 2022 06.00 BST

George Monbiot

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/06/power-wealthy-earth-politics-democracy-plutocracy

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Global hunger toll soars by 150 million as Covid and Ukraine war make their mark

 

Tenth of world’s population now chronically undernourished, with spectre of widespread famine drawing ever closer, warns report

 

Wed 6 Jul 2022 15.00 BST








https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jul/06/global-hunger-toll-soars-by-150-million-as-covid-and-ukraine-war-make-their-mark
 
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