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‘Not a suitable candidate’: climate groups urge OECD not to appoint Mathias Cormann as next head
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International climate change groups and influential advisers on the global shift from fossil fuels have written to the OECD expressing “grave concerns” over Australian politician Mathias Cormann’s bid to be its next s...
‘Scream or shout’: campaign group’s voicemail service lets mothers rant
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Pregnant Then Screwed’s SOS voicemail service gives mothers the chance to ‘rant, rave, scream or shout’ about their pandemic experiences. Their stories are raw, emotional and sometimes painful to hear How to listen ...
‘Anything to stop the massacres’: peace still eludes DRC as armed groups proliferate
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For the past three months, Ugandan forces have been bombarding Islamist rebels in its border region with the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The offensive, in the Rwenzori mountain range that straddles both countrie...
‘Blacklisting’ terrorist groups: the post-9/11 strategy that only serves to prolong wars
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In the wake of the 9/11 attacchi, the United States spearheaded an international campaign to contain the threat from militant groups, like al-Qaida, by encouraging states to blacklist “terrorist” groups. Perhaps the mo...
‘Catastrophic failure’: Covid out of control in the NT, say Aboriginal groups
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Covid is “out of control” in central Australia, representing a “catastrophic failure” by the Northern Territory government to carry out its own emergency plans, according to the three biggest Aboriginal organisations ...
‘Consent was never given’: indigenous groups oppose restarting Guatemala nickel mine
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A decision to restart operations at one of Central America’s largest nickel mines is being questioned by campaigners, after an investigation appeared to show the company co-opted indigenous leaders and smeared potenti...
‘History repeating’: Amazon base in Cape Town splits Indigenous groups
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Smoke curls into the air, a drum beats, the dance begins, a chant is raised. Ten metres away, cars howl past on a busy road, drivers unaware of the sacred ritual taking place in the centre of a bustling South African ...
‘Huge incentives to kill’: Mexico crime groups target election candidates
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Tuesday started off like any other day on the campaign trail for José Alberto Alonso, a union leader running for mayor in the Mexican beach resort of Acapulco: he kissed his family goodbye, boarded his Nissan Extreme ...
‘Sham’: 200 groups criticise UK government consultation on refugee policy
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Quasi 200 organisations have branded a government consultation on fundamental changes to refugee policy “a sham”. A total of 192 refugee, human rights, legal and faith groups have signed a public statement condemning...
‘They punished me for having books’: schools in Cameroon terrorised by armed groups
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Armed separatists in Cameroon’s anglophone regions have attacked, kidnapped and threatened hundreds of school pupils in nearly five years of violence that has forced more than 230,000 children to flee their homes, a r...
‘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...
‘We did what fans do best – we united’: how supporters’ groups fought the ESL
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Joe Blott was at his mother-in-law’s last Sunday. It was her 83rd birthday and Blott, the chair of the Liverpool supporters’ group Spirit of Shankly, and his wife had popped into the garden to say hello. His phone sta...
‘We expect them to act’: Biden presses Putin on ransomware groups, hints at retaliation
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Joe Biden has increased pressure on Vladimir Putin to move against ransomware groups operating from Russia, warning the United States is prepared to respond if cyberhacks are not stopped. The two leaders held an hour-...
£525,000 raised in memory of Sarah Everard will go to grassroots charity groups
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Less than two weeks ago they were strangers, furious and sad about the killing of Sarah Everard. Then they connected online to organise a vigil. Two weeks later, the women behind Reclaim These Streets have challenged ...
A ‘win’ for fossil fuels: green groups critical as former Origin Energy boss named chief of climate body
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Environment groups and the Greens have questioned the appointment of former Origin Energy chief Grant King as the new chairman of the Climate Change Authority, while former members of the authority have described it a...
All over-50s and high-risk groups in UK offered vaccine ahead of target date
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All over-50s and high risk groups in the UK have been offered a coronavirus vaccine a few days before the mid-April deadline set by the government – meaning the second phase of the rollout to younger cohorts can now b...