Revealed: UK ran cold war dirty tricks campaign to smear Kenya’s first vice-president
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British cold war propagandists smeared Kenyan vice-president Oginga Odinga in the 1960s in “black” propaganda operations, newly declassified files reveal. The Foreign Office’s propaganda arm, the Information Research ...
The 23-year-old fashion designer dressing Colombia’s first black female vice-president
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Esteban Sinisterra Paz, a 23-year-old fashion designer from Colombia’s conflict-ridden and impoverished Pacific region, had not long started his career when he received a call from a history-making client. Francia Már...
Alex Jones to pay $4.1m over false Sandy Hook claims
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Good morning. The jury in Alex Jones’s defamation trial on Thursday ordered the far-right conspiracy theorist to pay $4.1m in damages over his repeated claims that the deadly Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax. Jur...
Covid loans make UK taxpayers shareholders in cannabis oil firm
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British taxpayers are now shareholders in a further 65 companies because of a government rescue funding scheme set up during the Covid crisis – including a medical cannabis firm, a video game studio and a chain of bar...
Four corporate US landlords deceived and evicted thousands during Covid, report reveals
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Elizabeth Warren and other lawmakers are looking to secure more tenants’ rights this week after a yearlong House investigation concluded that four corporate landlords aggressively evicted thousands of people, especial...
China begins Taiwan military drills after Pelosi visit
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Good morning. Taiwan’s army has said it is “preparing for war without seeking war” after China’s military began an unprecedented four days of live-fire exercises near the island’s shores following Nancy Pelosi’s visit...
‘We want kids to take their first steps more mindfully’: the children’s shoe brand with sustainability at its heart
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When Jeroo Doodhmal’s daughter began walking, she took her to get her feet measured and bought her first pair of shoes. But within a matter of months she had grown out of them and needed another pair, and Doodhmal beg...
‘Horrific’ First Nations missing and murdered cases to be focus of Australia-wide inquiry
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A landmark parliamentary inquiry will investigate the “horrific, extensive and unacceptable” rates of missing and murdered Indigenous women and children in Australia. The WA Greens senator, Dorinda Cox, successfully m...