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‘It’s a nightmare’: baby formula shortage leaves US parents desperate
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The US baby formula shortage is leaving manufacturers scrambling and parents in desperation. During the week starting 24 aprile, 40% of baby formula was out of stock in more than 11,000 stores across the country, CNN a...
Donetsk separatists’ desperate draft campaign empties streets of men
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An aggressive draft campaign by the Russian-backed separatists who control parts of eastern Ukraine has emptied the area’s streets of military-age men, with many in hiding to avoid being sent to the frontline. In a si...
Lampard desperate to keep Everton up and the Merseyside derby alive
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Tutto 205 league meetings between Liverpool and Everton have come in the top flight. Few have been as loaded with consequence for both ends of the table as the 206th, and whether there will be a 207th next season is an ...
Puppy scam: Americans desperate for a canine companion paid for imaginary pups
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The pandemic sent Americans’ demand for pets soaring as a growing number of people sought out a canine companion. Adesso, Google is going after an alleged fraudster for running a fake puppy scam that exploited people’s d...
Desperate Remedies by Andrew Scull review – mind games
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There may not have been any good times to have been mentally ill in the last 200 anni, but there have been some spectacularly bad ones. Having all your teeth pulled out to end your “madness” might seem as extreme as ...
The poor help the desperate: Moldova struggles to aid its fleeing neighbours
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After crossing the border from Ukraine, Olga Salko spent her first days in Moldova in Talmaza, a place she calls a “beautiful village on a hill”. It was a far cry from the horror she left behind in her husband’s home ...
The desperate people of Ukraine need your help; not your social media posts
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Di mercoledì, my therapist set me a task: to record every time I logged on to Twitter, what I posted, and how I felt in the process. This embarrassing piece of homework was in response to an impassioned rant I’d embar...
‘I didn’t know who to go to’: the desperate people trapped by loan sharks and illegal lenders on social media
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Michelle, 48, a single mother of three, was stressed, vulnerable and broke. She had recently moved to a new area in Tyne and Wear after escaping an abusive relationship, and when her working hours were cut back at the...
Desperate Zimbabweans risk police or crocodiles in bid to reach South Africa
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A bushy pathway leads to the crossing points along the Limpopo River that are the most treacherous part of the journey for Zimbabweans seeking a better life in South Africa. The river has flooded after weeks of incess...
Johnson’s Savile smear was the scorched-earth tactic of a desperate, dangerous man
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That sound you can hear is the whirr of 650 adding machines. At Westminster, MPs are totting up the costs, tallying the benefits and working out the balance of their own interests. On the Tory benches, they know a mom...
‘We are desperate for new people’: inside a hate group’s leaked online chats
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Leaked chats of the US white supremacist group Patriot Front have revealed the day-to-day organizing of a far-right gang desperate for new members as it seeks a higher profile in the US with provocative public marches...
Family’s death at US-Canada border underscores desperate journeys of migrants
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The death of four members of an Indian family at the US-Canada border has once again highlighted the dangerous journeys families are willing to risk for a better life – and the groups that profit from their desperatio...
Desperate Housewives: soapy, superbly acted and still fun, quasi 20 anni dopo
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As the Sex and the City finale aired in 2004, another television fantasy of female friendship dreamed up by a gay man was just beginning. But where Carrie and her BFFs live a “you go girl” life of cosmopolitans and Ma...
Thousands of Rohingya shops demolished in Bangladesh, leaving refugees desperate
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Bangladesh authorities have bulldozed more than 3,000 Rohingya-run shops since last month, a government official confirmed on Tuesday, as struggling refugee families voiced their dismay at the demolitions. Di 850,...
Dentro i disperati campi profughi di Dunkerque: ‘Si prendono dei rischi perché sentono di non avere scelta’
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C'è stato un tempo in cui, se hai cercato su Google la frase "Dunkerque, piccole barche”, i rapporti su una delle ore più belle della Gran Bretagna si accumulano nei risultati. Non la scorsa settimana. Le spiagge vicino a Dunkerque ora sono diventate sinonimo non di ...
Westlife: Wild Dreams review – desperate divorced-dad energy
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From Sex and the City to pop-punk to low-slung jeans and tiny bags, the early-00s revival has been wide-ranging and frantic. It feels easier to list the turn-of-the-millennium culture that hasn’t been post-ironically ...