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‘Anger is growing’: protests and strikes spread across France over pensions reform

 

Uncollected rubbish piled up over half of Paris is but one sign of discontent with a president many think isn’t listening to them

 

Tue 21 Mar 2023 18.49 GMT













https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/21/protests-and-strikes-france--pensions-reform-emmanuel-macron
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UN calls for foreign intervention in Haiti as violence surges

 

‘Specialized support force’ urged for Caribbean state where 530 have been killed in gang-led violence so far this year

 

 
Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent
Tue 21 Mar 2023 15.44 GMT










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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/21/haiti-un-international-specialized-support-force
 
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The growing Chinese investment in illegal American weed

 

Multiple states in the West are seeing an increase in Chinese workers and funding at unlicensed cultivation operations

 

By Natalie Fertig

03/21/2023 04:30 AM EDT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/21/illicit-cannabis-china-00086125

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Fear, burnout and insubordination: Insiders spill details about life at the highest levels of FBI

 

A discrimination case has pulled back the curtain on the tense atmosphere at the bureau’s legal office

 

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Switzerland’s national pride dealt heavy blow by the merger of its banking titans

 

‘A monster is born’, say local press, as Credit Suisse takeover by UBS creates bank twice the size of the Swiss economy

 

Philip Oltermann in Zurich
Wed 22 Mar 2023 09.00 GMT













https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/22/switzerlands-national-pride-dealt-heavy-blow-by-the-merger-of-its-banking-titans
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Concern over violence as Palestinians prepare for Ramadan in Jerusalem

 

Bloodshed and hardline Israeli politics raise tensions on eve of Muslim holy month

 

Bethan McKernan and Sufian Taha in Jerusalem
Wed 22 Mar 2023 11.12 GMT










https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/22/concern-over-violence-as-palestinians-prepare-for-ramadan-in-jerusalem
 
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‘I skip meals to make my insulin last’: the cost of diabetes in the global south

 

The three firms that control the insulin market are to cut costs in the US, but elsewhere users can spend all their pay to get the life-saving drug

 

Wed 22 Mar 2023 06.30 GMT















https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/mar/22/i-skip-meals-to-make-insulin-last-cost-of-diabetes-in-global-south
 
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‘Most are unaware’: film highlights Germany’s genocidal past in Namibia

 

Director hopes to educate Germans about ‘brutal’ colonial history of mass killings in early 20th century

 

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She was one of Alabama’s last abortion doctors. Then they came for everything she had

 

Dr Leah Torres has endured the ire of the anti-abortion movement without backing down – but now she faces her most daunting challenge

 

Wed 22 Mar 2023 08.00 GMT

by Poppy Noor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/22/alabama-last-abortion-doctor-leah-torres

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Emmanuel Macron faces 200 protests across France over pension changes

 

Police gear up for march of hundreds of thousands in Paris as anger grows over president’s ‘arrogance’

 

Kim Willsher in Paris
Thu 23 Mar 2023 12.07 GMT











https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/23/workers-block-paris-airport-terminal-pension-protests-continue-france
 
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Spanish PM to discuss Ukraine with Xi Jinping on visit to China

 

Pedro Sánchez says he will tell Chinese leader it must be Ukrainians who ‘lay down conditions’ for any peace agreement

 

Sam Jones in Madrid
Thu 23 Mar 2023 13.39 GMT









https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/23/spanish-pm-pedro-sanchez-to-discuss-ukraine-with-xi-jinping-on-state-visit-to-china
 
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Blood for money: my journey in the industry buying poor Americans’ plasma

 

The US is one of the few countries that allows donors – who are often struggling economically – to be paid for plasma

 

by Kathleen McLaughlin

Thu 23 Mar 2023 07.00 GMT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/23/selling-blood-plasma-donations-us-health

 

 

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Scores arrested on Israeli day of protest as parliament passes judicial changes

 

At least 75 people held across country on ‘day of disruption’ as Knesset approves law designed to protect Netanyahu

 

Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem
Thu 23 Mar 2023 15.58 GMT









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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/23/scores-arrested-on-israeli-day-of-protest-as-parliament-passes-judicial-changes
 
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Torture in Syrian Prisons is Not a Joke

 

Syria Passes Law Criminalizing Torture

 

Sara Kayyali
Syria Researcher, Middle East and North Africa Division
Apr 1, 2022
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Just like 2013........

Thousands who protested peacefully languish in Syrian jails - HRW

 

By Reuters Staff

October 3, 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-syria-crisis-prisoners-idUKBRE99211V20131003

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‘No one can deny it now’: death flight plane to be returned to Argentina

 

Flight logs revealed how 12 people were thrown out to their deaths into the Atlantic during the years of dictatorship

 

Uki Goñi in Buenos Aires
Fri 24 Mar 2023 09.30 GMT













https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/24/argentina-dictatorship-death-flight-plane-return-from-us


Many people underwent such 

treatment
(besidestheusualtortures,murdersetc)....Thiscannotandwon'tbeforgotten,norforgiven
 
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Plan to test for dioxins near Ohio train derailment site is flawed, experts say

 

Test relies on visual inspection of ash to then check soil for toxins, which is ‘unlikely to give a complete picture’ of contamination

 

Fri 24 Mar 2023 10.00 GMT










https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/24/ohio-train-derailment-dioxin-test-plan-flawed
 
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Sunak emphasises need to uphold democracy at Netanyahu No 10 talks

 

Israeli prime minister greeted by hundreds of protesters during London visit to discuss security

 

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor
Fri 24 Mar 2023 15.46 GMT











https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/24/sunak-hosts-netanyahu-amid-disquiet-over-israel-rightwing-coalition
 
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How far-right American Jews are enabling Netanyahu’s court takeover

 

Rabbi Gilad Kariv, a Labour party member of Israel’s parliament, warns ultra-conservative members are pushing tighter controls

 

Chris McGreal in New York
Fri 24 Mar 2023 09.00 GMT











https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/24/benjamin-netanyahu-israel-court-takeover-american-jews-far-right
 
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In Florida, parents are always right – even when they think a Michelangelo is porn

 

A principal was fired after a Renaissance art class was shown David in the latest example of the state’s censorship crusade

 

Sat 25 Mar 2023 13.00 GMT

Arwa Mahdawi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/25/florida-school-principal-fired-michelangelo-porn-desantis-law

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