Politics & environs 2022

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Female student in Nigeria beaten to death over ‘blasphemy’

 

Witnesses say police failed to disperse mob of fellow students in Sokoto who set victim on fire following WhatsApp comments

 

Reuters in Kano

Thu 12 May 2022 20.53 BST







https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/12/female-student-nigeria-beaten-to-death-sokoto
 

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Israel will not hold criminal inquiry into killing of journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh

 

Military police say they are satisfied with assurances of Israeli troops over death of US-Palestinian despite international demands

 

Peter Beaumont

Thu 19 May 2022 13.46 BST











https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/19/israel-will-not-hold-criminal-inquiry-into-killing-of-journalist-shireen-abu-aqleh
 

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Maduro glimpses political lifeline as US rethinks Venezuela policy

 

Putin’s war on Ukraine and political deadlock in Caracas have combined to herald a new dawn in US-Venezuela ties

 

Tom Phillips, Patrick Wintour and Julian Borger in Washington

Thu 19 May 2022 10.15 BST








https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/19/venezuela-nicolas-maduro-us-relations
 

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Why has Erdoğan doubled down on threat to veto Nordic Nato bids?

 

Analysis: By demanding extradition of alleged PKK members, Turkish president could have one eye on elections

 

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Wed 18 May 2022 18.14 BST








https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/18/erdogan-doubles-down-on-threat-to-veto-nordic-nato-membership


 

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Food protests continue across Iran as one person reported dead

 

Soaring prices of wheat and basic goods bring protests to cities across Iran as internet outages suggest attempted clampdown

 

Reuters

Sat 14 May 2022 19.57 BST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/14/food-protests-continue-across-iran-as-one-person-reported-dead

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Brazil's Lula gets married at 76 with a political touch

 

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been married for the third time in a ceremony that had a political touch as he heads toward Brazil's presidential election in October as the front-runner

 

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press

19 May 2022, 04:04

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/brazils-lula-married-76-political-touch-84824081

 

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In the firing zone: evictions begin in West Bank villages after court ruling

 

Palestinians in Masafer Yatta – or Firing Zone 918 to the Israelis – vow to rebuild as homes are bulldozed

 

Bethan McKernan and Quique Kierszenbaum in Masafer Yatta, West Bank

Sun 22 May 2022 13.17 BST










https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/22/firing-zone-evictions-begin-west-bank-villages-court-ruling-masafer-yatta
 

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Iran: Revolutionary Guard colonel killed by motorbike gunmen in Tehran

 

Hassan Sayad Khodayari was shot five times in his unarmoured vehicle outside his home

 

Associated Press in Tehran

Sun 22 May 2022 17.57 BST










https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/22/iran-revolutionary-guard-colonel-killed-by-motorbike-gunmen-in-tehran
 

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The American right is whitewashing Hungary’s nasty, autocratic regime

 

US conservatives are signaling their commitment to authoritarianism loud and clear by holding this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference in Budapest – the first-ever outside the US

 

Tue 24 May 2022 11.15 BST

Jan-Werner Müller

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/24/the-american-right-is-whitewashing-hungarys-nasty-autocratic-regime

 

 

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

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‘One woman took out 13 of her own teeth’: the terrifying truth about Britain’s dental crisis

 

In England, only a third of adults – and half of children – now have access to an NHS dentist. As those in pain turn to charity-run clinics for help, can anything stop the rot?

 

Helen Pidd

Tue 24 May 2022 06.00 BST









https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/may/24/one-woman-took-out-13-of-her-own-teeth-the-terrifying-truth-about-britains-dental-crisis


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

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FBI seeks arrest of man claiming to be North Korea ‘special delegate’

 

Spaniard alleged to have conspired with cryptocurrency expert to help Pyongyang evade US sanctions

 

Sam Jones in Madrid

Tue 24 May 2022 12.38 BST











https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/24/fbi-seeks-arrest-of-man-claiming-to-be-north-korea-special-delegate

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The Guardian view on Viktor Orbán’s Brussels bashing: a reckoning must come

 

The contempt shown by Hungary’s prime minister for EU norms requires a response

 

Mon 23 May 2022 18.59 BST

Editorial

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/23/the-guardian-view-on-viktor-orbans-brussels-bashing-a-reckoning-must-come

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Iran vows to avenge killing as it buries Revolutionary Guard colonel

 

Finger of blame pointed at Israel after Hassan Sayad Khodayari shot dead in Tehran

 

Martin Chulov Middle East correspondent

Mon 23 May 2022 18.22 BST









https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/23/iran-vows-to-avenge-killing-as-it-buries-revolutionary-guard-colonel
 

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Steve Kerr

 

https://www.ansa.it/sito/videogallery/mondo/2022/05/25/sparatoria-a-scuola-in-texas-steve-kerr-siamo-ostaggi-di-50-senatori-a-washington_b445e02d-b3d2-4855-96ce-14b966460c53.html

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Brazil: at least 21 people killed during police raid in Rio favela

 

Death toll puts the incident among Rio’s deadliest police operations in recent history

 

Staff and agencies in Rio de Janeiro

Tue 24 May 2022 22.40 BST









https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/24/brazil-police-raid-rio-favela-death-toll
 

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My daughter was killed at Dunblane, Scotland. I know that gun controls save lives

 

There is a clear correlation between level of gun ownership and the number of deaths. What will it take for the US to learn this?

 

Thu 26 May 2022 11.00 BST

Mick North

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/26/british-laws-dunblane-gun-control-texas-school-massacre

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Europe silent on plight of detainees in Libya, says migration chief

 

Federico Soda said there needed to be ‘more condemnation’ of the conditions in state-run detention centres in Libya

 

Jennifer Rankin in Brussels

Thu 26 May 2022 13.17 BST








https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/26/europe-silent-on-plight-of-refugees-in-libya-says-iom-mission-chief-federico-soda
 

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America will never get better if we refuse to diagnose and treat its problems

 

As we endure shooting after shooting, the US starts to seem like a body being attacked from within by some strange and debilitating illness

 

Thu 26 May 2022 14.06 BST

Maeve Higgins

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/26/america-will-never-get-better-if-we-refuse-to-diagnose-and-treat-its-problems

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‘Zero asylum seekers’: Denmark forces refugees to return to Syria

 

Under a more hostile immigration system, young volunteers fight to help fellow refugees stay – but their work is never done

 

Weronika Strzyżyńska

Wed 25 May 2022 12.00 BST








Vid

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/may/25/zero-asylum-seekers-denmark-forces-refugees-to-return-to-syria
 

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Eighteen-year-old Americans can’t drink. Why can they buy assault rifles?

 

The solution to mass shootings isn’t increased policing or an expanded surveillance state or runaway anti-terrorism legislation. It’s making it harder to buy a gun

 

Fri 27 May 2022 11.18 BST

Ross Barkan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/27/eighteen-year-old-americans-cant-vote-why-can-they-buy-assault-rifles

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Outrage in Brazil as mentally ill Black man dies in police car ‘gas chamber’

 

Genivaldo de Jesus Santos dies of asphyxiation as video shows officers forcing him into vehicle then releasing gas grenade

 

Constance Malleret in Rio de Janeiro

Thu 26 May 2022 19.55 BST










https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/26/brazil-mentally-ill-black-man-dies-gas-police-car
 

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A bison range homecoming: Native tribes reclaim a Montana nature preserve

 

The Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes celebrate the restoration of lands they had stewarded for thousands of years

 

This piece was first published by Montana Free Press

by Sarah Mosquera for Montana Free Press

Fri 27 May 2022 09.00 BST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/27/bison-range-native-tribes-reclaim-montana-nature-preserve

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘It’s an American problem’: US readers on preventing future mass shootings

 

As America comes to terms with the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, readers explain what they think should be done to prevent future mass shootings

 

Guardian readers

Fri 27 May 2022 10.00 BST









https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/27/us-readers-on-preventing-mass-shootings
 

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Cramped ship carrying more than 800 Haitians lands in Cuba

 

Group includes children and pregnant women as exodus from crisis-hit Haiti grows

 

Staff and agencies in Havana

Wed 25 May 2022 19.18 BST










https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/25/cramped-ship-carrying-more-than-800-haitians-lands-in-cuba
 

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Israeli forces deliberately shot Shireen Abu Aqleh, Palestinian probe finds

 

Israel claims the Al Jazeera journalist was killed during a battle between its soldiers and Palestinian militants

 

AP in Ramallah

Thu 26 May 2022 17.55 BST








https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/26/israeli-forces-deliberately-shot-shireen-abu-aqleh-palestinian-probe-finds
 

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America, how long will you sacrifice your children on the altar of gun worship?

 

This devotion to the right to bear arms is horrifyingly outdated. It brought terror to Texas – and it will happen again and again

 

Fri 27 May 2022 17.27 BST

Jonathan Freedland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/27/america-gun-right-to-bear-arms-texas