Research for Oxfam evidences inequality between footprints of people in UK and in countries including Rwanda, Ethiopia and Malawi The average British person will have emitted more carbon dioxide emissions in the first 2 week of this year than private citizens of any one of seven African nations does in …
Read More »20 photographs of the week
The drone strike in Baghdad, bushfires in Australia, the continuation of the unrest in Hong kong residents and New Year celebrations- the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week Continue reading … Read more: theguardian.com
Read More »Australia fires live: one dead in NSW and six missing in Victoria in Australian bushfires – latest updates
NSW RFS commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons says he was frustrated to learn of ADF deployment from the media. Follow all today’s live report and latest updates 12.33 am GMT Doesn’t look like we have an Auslan interpreter at this news conference. The government should probably start considering that. 12.32 am GMT …
Read More »The most exciting movies of 2020 – family films
Mulan combats her way out of controversy, Pixar jam-packs with a jazz Coco and Keanu Reeves stars opposite SpongeBob Squarepants in next year’s most promising kids’ flicks More of “the worlds largest” foresaw films of 2020 We had a pretty good version of Roald Dahl’s The Witches in 1990, but …
Read More »‘Historic rebuke’: what the US papers say about Trump’s impeachment
One word summarizes it up for many front pages, but pro-Trump papers insist the Senate trial will be a’ funeral’ for the Democrats There was not much debate on the top story in the US on Thursday morning, with the two elections to impeach Donald Trump getting near universal coverage. …
Read More »Australia records hottest day ever – one day after previous record
Average maximum reachings temperature of 41. 9C or 107.4 F on Wednesday- a full degree above previous score organize the day before Australia recorded its hottest period on record on Wednesday, with an average maximum temperature of 41.9 C( 107.4 F ), beating the previous record by 1C that had …
Read More »What could the US afford if it raised billionaires’ taxes? We do the math
If the richest 1% of American households paid at the same rates they done so in the 40 s and 50 s, the alter could be transformative “Every billionaire is a policy failure.” So says a key adviser to Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Ocasio-Cortez herself says that it’s incorrect to have …
Read More »Afghanistan papers detail US dysfunction: ‘We did not know what we were doing’
A key theme of the trove of documents wrote this week was the lack of coherence in Washington’s approach to Afghanistan from the outset In the midst of Barack Obama’s much-vaunted military surge against the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2010, Hayam Mohammed, an elder from Panjwai near the Pakistani border …
Read More »Nearly 700,000 Americans to lose food stamps under new Trump policy
Move will restriction countries from exempting work-eligible adults from having to maintain steady employment to receive benefits Hundreds of thousands of Americans who are dependent upon the federal food stamp program will lose their benefits under a new Trump administration rule that will tighten work requirements for recipients. The move …
Read More »‘Mystery solved’: owner of boat washed up in Ireland found in Canada
Environmentalist Rick Small says he imparted away boat now on display in community garden in Ireland The wooden houseboat cleaned ashore on Ireland’s Atlantic seashore three years ago, stimulating two questions: how did it get there? And where was Rick Small? The 20 ft( 6-metre) spacecraft, made with driftwood and …
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