Politics & environs 2023

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Losing their religion: why US churches are on the decline

 

As the US adjusts to an increasingly non-religious population, thousands of churches are closing each year – probably accelerated by Covid

 

Adam Gabbatt

Sun 22 Jan 2023 09.00 GMT










https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/22/us-churches-closing-religion-covid-christianity
 

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Oil wells guzzle precious California water. Next door, residents can’t use the tap

 

A town in the oil industry’s shadow grapples with health fears as the state fails to limit companies’ use of fresh water

 

Sun 22 Jan 2023 11.00 GMT

by Hilary Beaumont in Fuller Acres, California, with photographs by Pablo Unzueta

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/22/california-oil-wells-refineries-water-use-drought-fuller-acres

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Unlimited holiday time for workers is good for business – even small ones

 

Work-life balance is a critical benefit, and offering it can be a powerful recruiting tool and unexpected cost saver

 

Sun 22 Jan 2023 12.00 GMT

Last modified on Sun 22 Jan 2023 12.02 GM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/22/unlimited-holiday-time-vacation-pto-small-businesses

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Joseph Stiglitz: tax high earners at 70% to tackle widening inequality

 

Nobel-prizewinning economist calls for new top rate of income tax and 2-3% wealth tax on fortunes

 

Rupert Neate Wealth correspondent

Sun 22 Jan 2023 14.09 GMT










https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/jan/22/joseph-stiglitz-economist-income-tax-high-earners-70-per-cent-inequality
 

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Look at how the 1% are doing right now, and tell me the system isn’t rigged

 

The world’s super-rich have amassed so much wealth since the pandemic that even a Tory minister can see something is amiss

 

Mon 23 Jan 2023 07.00 GMT

Nesrine Malik

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/23/system-rigged-inequality-pandemic-despair-super-rich

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Brazil’s female diplomats in new equality push after dark days of Bolsonaro

 

Movement to tackle lack of diversity within Brazil’s foreign office coincides with Lula’s return to power

 

Constance Malleret in Rio de Janeiro

Mon 23 Jan 2023 10.30 GMT











https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/23/brazil-diplomats-women-equality-lula-bolsonaro
 

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India invokes emergency laws to ban BBC Modi documentary

 

Government accused of ‘censorship’ over ban on film about PM’s role in violence during 2002 Gujarat riots

 

Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi

Mon 23 Jan 2023 07.59 GMT











https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/23/india-emergency-laws-to-ban-bbc-narendra-modi-documentary
 

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Survivors recount rampant abuse at Los Angeles’ juvenile jails: ‘Helpless, hopeless, lost and lonely’

 

Three victims tell Guardian about their ordeal as nearly 300 sue LA county over decades of sexual abuse by officers

 

Sam Levin in Los Angeles

Mon 23 Jan 2023 11.00 GMT













https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/23/california-los-angeles-juvenile-center-abuse-survivors
 

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Former Wagner Group commander who fled to Norway arrested by police

 

Andrey Medvedev, who is seeking asylum after claiming to witness war crimes in Ukraine, fears deportation to Russia

 

Pjotr Sauer

Mon 23 Jan 2023 13.18 GMT









https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/23/former-wagner-group-commander-who-fled-to-norway-arrested-by-police
 

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Huge protest in Israel over rightwing government’s judicial changes

 

Estimated 100,000 people took to streets in Tel Aviv in what protesters described as ‘fight for Israel’s destiny’

 

 

Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem

Sun 22 Jan 2023 16.56 GMT










https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/22/huge-crowds-protest-in-israel-over-rightwing-governments-judicial-reforms

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Netanyahu told by Israel’s supreme court he must fire key ally from cabinet

 

Prime minister’s coalition in jeopardy after Aryeh Deri ruled ineligible for government due to tax offences

 

AP in Jerusalem

Wed 18 Jan 2023 21.29 GMT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/18/netanyahu-told-by-israels-supreme-court-he-must-fire-key-ally-from-cabinet

Edited January 23, 2023 by umbertino

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Zelenskiy ramps up anti-corruption drive as 15 Ukrainian officials exit

 

Key officials have been dismissed or resigned since Saturday, with six facing corruption allegations

 

Isobel Koshiw in Kyiv

Tue 24 Jan 2023 14.06 GMT












https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/24/zelenskiy-anti-corruption-drive-15-ukrainian-officials-exit
 

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‘Tragedy upon tragedy’: why 39 US mass shootings already this year is just the start

 

With 1,214 gun deaths so far in January, the ready availability of weapons means the toll can only climb

 

Tue 24 Jan 2023 14.06 GMT

Oliver Holmes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/24/tragedy-upon-tragedy-why-39-us-mass-shootings-already-this-year-is-just-the-start

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Rohingya and Myanmar coup survivors launch legal complaint in Germany against junta

 

Survivors of alleged abuses at hands of military unite in universal jurisdiction case over atrocities they say amount to genocide

 

Rebecca Ratcliffe South-east Asia correspondent

Tue 24 Jan 2023 06.42 GMT










https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/24/rohingya-and-myanmar-coup-survivors-launch-legal-complaint-in-germany-against-junta
 

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More journalists killed in Latin America and Caribbean than Ukraine in 2022

 

Committee to Protect Journalist reports region accounted for almost half of the 67 deaths worldwide

 

Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent

Tue 24 Jan 2023 14.00 GMT









https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jan/24/more-journalists-killed-latin-america-caribbean-ukraine-2022-cpj
 

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Why US libraries are on the frontlines of the homelessness crisis

 

Homeless people are relying on public libraries as a safe haven to stay warm and avoid harassment from law enforcement, advocates say

 

MacKenzie Ryan

Tue 24 Jan 2023 11.00 GMT











https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/24/us-libraries-homeless-crisis-social-workers
 

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Virginia boss to striking transit workers: “Let them freeze!”

 

January 20, 2023 10:15 AM CST By Aloysius Wolf

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/virginia-boss-to-striking-transit-workers-let-them-freeze/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bridgeport, Chicago’s message to racists: Not in my neighborhood!

 

January 23, 2023 10:08 AM CST By John Wojcik

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/bridgeport-chicagos-message-to-racists-not-in-my-neighborhood/

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North Korea locks down capital Pyongyang over respiratory illness

 

Residents told that rising cases mean they must stay home for five days and do frequent temperature checks

 

Reuters

Wed 25 Jan 2023 04.20 GMT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/25/north-korea-pyongyang-lockdown-respiratory-illness

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‘Simply too many guns’: four mass shootings leave California reeling

 

Eight days of brutal gun violence have left at least 25 people dead, upending communities across the state

 

Lois Beckett and Sam Levin in Los Angeles

Wed 25 Jan 2023 13.38 GMT













https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/25/california-mass-shootings-reaction-communities
 

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Yevgeny Prigozhin: the hotdog seller who rose to the top of Putin’s war machine

 

After nearly a decade in prison, the Wagner group founder’s ascent was extraordinary. But where does the ceiling of his ambition lie? Some of those who knew him describe his path to power

 

Shaun Walker and Pjotr Sauer

Tue 24 Jan 2023 14.23 GMT












https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/24/yevgeny-prigozhin-the-hotdog-seller-who-rose-to-the-top-of-putin-war-machine-wagner-group
 

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Homeless at Starbucks: why the coffee chain is bringing in social workers

 

Unhoused people use the cafe locations to warm up and rest – and now outreach workers can find them there and offer services

 

Wed 25 Jan 2023 11.00 GMT

by Frida Garza in New York

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/25/homeless-at-starbucks-social-workers-outreach

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Brazil, Kenya, the US – tech giants are putting democracy in peril the world over

 

Billions of us are due to vote in the next two years as the scourge of online misinformation grows ever worse. It’s time to regulate

 

Wed 25 Jan 2023 07.15 GMT

Odanga Madung

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jan/25/brazil-kenya-the-us-tech-giants-are-putting-democracy-in-peril-the-world-over

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Florida teachers forced to remove or cover up books to avoid felony charges

 

State’s new bill goes into effect prohibiting material unless deemed appropriate by a librarian or ‘certified media specialist’

 

Erum Salam

Tue 24 Jan 2023 17.06 GMT










https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/24/florida-manatee-county-books-certified-media-specialist
 

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Washington Post condemns Pompeo for ‘vile’ Khashoggi ‘falsehoods’

 

Fred Ryan says former secretary of state ‘outrageously misrepresents’ Post journalist murdered by Saudi Arabian regime

 

Martin Pengelly in New York

Tue 24 Jan 2023 19.19 GMT











https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/24/washington-post-fred-ryan-mike-pompeo-book-jamal-khashoggi
 

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What would a genuine plan for levelling up the north of England look like? Ask a German

 

They have laws requiring equality between the states and a funding regime to make it happen. Imagine that kind of Britain

 

Wed 25 Jan 2023 06.00 GMT

Andy Burnham

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/25/levelling-up-north-england-regional-germany-barnett-formula

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Justice Department sues Google over digital advertising dominance

 

January 25, 2023 10:24 AM CST By Barbara Ortutay, Eric Tucker And Frank Bajak

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/justice-department-sues-google-over-digital-advertising-dominance/