Politics & environs 2023

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‘Everything is fake’: how global crime gangs are using UK shell companies in multi-million pound crypto scams

 

Investigation reveals more than 150 fake firms, many with ties to China, are targeting people online, breaking their hearts – and emptying their bank accounts

 

Shanti Das and Niamh McIntyre

Sun 29 Jan 2023 07.00 GMT










https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/29/everything-is-fake-how-global-gangs-are-using-uk-shell-companies-in-multi-million-pound-crypto-scams
 

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Trial of man behind New York’s worst terror attack since 9/11 details path to radicalization

 

Sayfullo Saipov was convicted for the 2017 New York City truck attack and now awaits a decision on whether he lives or dies

 

Victoria Bekiempis

Sun 29 Jan 2023 10.00 GMT











https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/29/sayfullo-saipov-trial-portrait
 

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Anna Politkovskaya film inspired by Guardian’s obituary

 

Exclusive: Film-maker Miriam Segal says article made her feel compelled to tell story of anti-Putin journalist murdered in 2006

 

Dalya Alberge

Sun 29 Jan 2023 14.00 GMT









https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jan/29/anna-politkovskaya-film-inspired-by-guardian-obituary
 

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‘We’ll fight until the end’: a journey through the centre of Peru’s uprising

 

Inequality, poverty and discrimination lie behind explosion of rural anger against rich Lima

 

Mon 30 Jan 2023 07.15 GMT

by Tom Phillips in Sicuani

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/30/journey-through-the-centre-of-peru-uprising-dina-boluarte

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Iranian protesters sentenced to death were tortured, says Amnesty report

 

Two teenagers and 31-year-old man were subjected to torture including rape and beatings and denied fair trial, says group

 

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Mon 30 Jan 2023 10.07 GMT









https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/30/iranian-protesters-tortured-amnesty-report
 

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Erdoğan says Turkey may accept Finland into Nato without Sweden

 

Turkish president’s comments threaten to derail military alliance’s hopes of expanding to 32 countries

 

Agence France-Presse

Mon 30 Jan 2023 14.23 GMT








https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/30/erdogan-says-turkey-may-accept-finland-into-nato-without-sweden


Among other things...This gentleman (sigh....) hates Kurds and vowed to exterminate them all.....Sounds famliar?
 

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Ukraine is locked in a war with corruption as well as Putin – it can’t afford to lose either

 

High-profile resignations highlight the nation’s struggle to prove to the world it is not, as Russia tries to suggest, a corrupt basket case

 

Mon 30 Jan 2023 13.22 GMT

Orysia Lutsevych

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/30/ukraine-war-with-corruption-putin-resignations-russia

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US utilities shut off power to millions amid record corporate profits – report

 

Largest utilities spent billions on stock buybacks, dividend payments to shareholders and executive salaries, analysis finds

 

Tom Perkins

Mon 30 Jan 2023 05.01 GMT












https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/29/us-utilities-shut-off-power-to-millions-amid-record-profits
 

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Ghosts of Moria: living in the ashes of Europe’s largest migrant camp – documentary

 

As Europe’s most infamous migrant camp burned to the ground on the island of Lesbos in 2020, two Syrians evaded police to stay. Living in a post-apocalyptic graveyard, the friends Ayham and Khalil, now race local scrap metal collectors to find what they can, which they are forced to sell at a reduced price. With what little money they make they buy food and cook together, dreaming of Aleppo before the civil war forced them to leave and waiting for an end to their bureaucratic limbo. From their shared tent their friendship endures, despite their impossible circumstances

 

 

January 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2023/jan/30/ghosts-of-moria-living-in-the-ashes-of-europes-largest-migrant-camp-documentary

 

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“An Intolerable Situation”: Rashid Khalidi & Orly Noy on Israeli Colonialism & Escalating Violence

 

January 30, 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/1/30/israel_palestine_violence_tony_blinken

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Strike action over Macron’s pensions plan brings major disruption to France

 

Hundreds of thousands across transport, school and energy sectors rally against government plan to raise retirement age to 64

 

Angelique Chrisafis in Paris

Tue 31 Jan 2023 14.36 GMT









https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/31/france-protests-pensions-plan-retirement-age-macron
 

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Antony Blinken to meet Palestinian leaders amid round of deadly attacks

 

US secretary of state voices hope for ‘sense of security for Israelis and Palestinians alike’ as violence in region escalates

 

Oliver Holmes

Tue 31 Jan 2023 11.07 GMT








https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/31/antony-blinken-palestinians-israelis-violence
 

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‘Monster from the sky’: two years on from coup, Myanmar junta increases airstrikes on civilians

 

People across the country now live under constant threat of attacks from the skies

 

Rebecca Ratcliffe South east Asia correspondent and Min Ye Kyaw

Tue 31 Jan 2023 09.00 GMT












https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/31/monster-from-the-sky-two-years-on-from-coup-myanmar-junta-increases-airstrikes-on-civilians
 

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North-west Pakistan in grip of deadly Taliban resurgence

 

Misguided government efforts to rehabilitate militants have helped fuel recent terrorist activity

 

Shah Meer Baloch in Waziristan and Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Mumbai

Tue 31 Jan 2023 10.29 GMT










https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/31/terrorists-north-west-pakistan-deadly-taliban-resurgence
 

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‘It was all for nothing’: Chinese count cost of Xi’s snap decision to let Covid rip

 

After three years of lockdowns, the country was ill prepared for its abrupt ‘freedom’. Now, with some estimating 1m deaths, public anger is growing

 

Helen Davidson in Taipei, Verna Yu, and Chi Hui Lin

Sun 29 Jan 2023 11.00 GMT









https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/29/chinese-cost-covid-xi-lockdowns-china
 

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‘It can be scary’: how corporate America is hitting back against unions

 

Employers are using heavy-handed tactics to prevent workers from organizing, and US labor union density is falling as a result

 

Michael Sainato

Tue 31 Jan 2023 14.46 GMT











https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/31/louisville-kentucky-trader-joes-workers-union-drive
 

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Brexit is a ‘complete disaster’ and ‘total lies’, says former Tory donor

 

Private equity veteran Guy Hands says Boris Johnson ‘threw the country and the NHS under the bus’

 

Julia Kollewe

Tue 31 Jan 2023 15.00 GMT









https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/31/brexit-lies-tory-billionaire-guy-hands-uk-eu-economy
 

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First Thing: Biden says US will not provide F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine

 

Ukraine planned to push for western fourth-generation fighter jets. Plus, why circadian-rhythm shaming needs to stop

 

Nicola Slawson

Tue 31 Jan 2023 11.04 GMT











https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/31/first-thing-biden-says-us-will-not-provide-f-16-fighter-jets-to-ukraine
 

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I’m tired of watching Black men like Tyre Nichols die. This shouldn’t be normal

 

Viral police brutality videos have become a morbid reminder of the fragility of Black life in America

 

Tue 31 Jan 2023 11.15 GMT

Tayo Bero

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/31/black-men-tyre-nichols-death-not-normal-tayo-bero

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US renewable energy farms outstrip 99% of coal plants economically – study

 

It is cheaper to build solar panels or cluster of wind turbines and connect them to the grid than to keep operating coal plants

 

Oliver Milman

Mon 30 Jan 2023 11.00 GMT











https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/30/us-coal-more-expensive-than-renewable-energy-study
 

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Jair Bolsonaro applies for six-month tourist visa to stay in US

 

Ex-Brazil president who has been in Florida since 30 December is being investigated for attempt to topple country’s government

 

Staff and agencies

Mon 30 Jan 2023 22.16 GMT










https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/30/jair-bolsonaro-us-visa-brazil
 

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Iranian couple filmed dancing in Tehran are jailed for 10 years

 

Couple convicted of ‘encouraging corruption and public prostitution’ after video of dance at landmark tower went viral

 

Agence France-Presse in Paris

Tue 31 Jan 2023 15.21 GMT












https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/31/iranian-couple-filmed-dancing-in-tehran-are-jailed-for-10-years
 

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Ohio officials react to reports of a Nazi homeschooling group in Upper Sandusky

 

By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
Posted on: Monday, January 30, 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://woub.org/2023/01/30/ohio-officials-react-to-reports-of-a-nazi-homeschooling-group-in-upper-sandusky/

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Brazil’s new president works to reverse Amazon deforestation

 

January 24, 2023 10:04 AM CST By Fabiano Maisonnave And Diane Jeantet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/brazils-new-president-works-to-reverse-amazon-deforestation/

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Head of Kyiv tax authority accused of multimillion-dollar fraud

 

Allegations follow raid on one of unnamed woman’s four homes as part of Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s anti-corruption campaign

 

Daniel Boffey in Kyiv

Wed 1 Feb 2023 15.15 GMT











https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/01/ukraine-head-of-kyiv-tax-authority-accused-of-multi-million-dollar