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End The Death Penalty
The Independent 17 Oct 2021
By the time Dylann Roof went on trial, Reverend Sharon Risher was already starting to have her doubts about the death penalty. In 2015, Roof, an avowed white supremacist, shot and killed nine people at a historic Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, after they had welcomed him into their Bible study session ... ((AP Photo/Stephen B.
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Slaughter in Indonesia: Britain’s secret propaganda war
The Observer 17 Oct 2021
In early 1965 Ed Wynne, an official from the Foreign Office in London in his late 40s, arrived at the door of a two-storey villa set in the discreet calm of a genteel housing estate in colonial Singapore. But Wynne was no ordinary official ... A junior official, four local people and two “IRD ladies”, seconded to the unit from London, would join him ... AP.
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El Salvador sees greener cryptocurrency mining in its future
Shenzhen Daily 18 Oct 2021
EL SALVADOR’S unfolding experiment as a first adopter of the crytocurrency Bitcoin could be increasingly powered by new streams of renewable energy, the chief of the country’s hydroelectric commission told reporters Friday ... Last month, El Salvador became the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender alongside the U.S ... .
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La Liga Table: Barcelona beat Valencia as Real Sociedad go top
Football Critic 17 Oct 2021
Barcelona eased the pressure on manager Ronald Koeman by beating Valencia 3-1 at Camp Nou on Sunday evening. Jose Gaya put the visitors ahead after five minutes but Ansu Fati and Memphis Depay turned the game around before half time. And Philippe Coutinho added a third as a substitute five minutes from time to make the game safe ... ....
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Facebook plans to hire 10,000 in EU to build 'metaverse'
Reuters 18 Oct 2021
Oct 18 (Reuters) - Facebook Inc (FB.O) plans to hire 10,000 in the European Union over the next five years, the social media giant said on Monday, to help build the so-called metaverse - a nascent online world where people exist and communicate in shared virtual spaces ... read more ... ....
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Rising sea levels threaten Marshall Islands’ status as a nation, World Bank report warns
The Observer 18 Oct 2021
Projected sea level rise would mean 40% of the buildings in the Marshall Islands’ capital of Majuro would be permanently flooded and entire islands would disappear, potentially costing the Pacific country its status as a nation, according to a devastating new report from the World Bank ... So that is a quite big impact,” she said ... It really hit hard.” ... .
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Haiti: 15 US missionaries and family kidnapped
Deutsche Welle 17 Oct 2021
The missionaries had been heading home from building an orphanage when they were pulled off a bus by a gang, according to media reports. Haiti has witnessed more than 600 kidnappings already this year. At least 15 American missionaries and family members have been kidnapped by a gang outside the Haitian capital, security sources said Sunday ... .
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Big investment in green hydrogen production by Ineos
Belfast Telegraph 18 Oct 2021
Chemical giant Ineos is to invest around £1.69 billion in green hydrogen production. The company said it will be Europe’s largest ever investment in electrolysis projects to make green hydrogen with the potential to “transform” zero carbon hydrogen production ... Ineos chairman Sir Jim Ratcliffe said ... Sir Jim Ratcliffe (Martin Rickett/PA). PA. / ... Most Read.
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Pressure mounts on ex-DoJ official Jeff Clark over Trump’s ‘election subversion scheme’
The Guardian 17 Oct 2021
The report noted Clark repeatedly tried to “induce Rosen into helping Trump’s election subversion scheme”, including by telling Rosen that if he agreed to join their cabal to overturn election results, Clark would turn down an offer Trump had made him to become attorney general in place of Rosen ... .
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Russia says it pushed US destroyer from area near its waters
Belleville News-Democrat 16 Oct 2021
Russia’s Defense Ministry said a ...
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Taliban To Announce Plans For Girls' Education "Soon": UN
NDTV 16 Oct 2021
The Taliban will announce a framework that allows girls to attend school in Afghanistan "soon," a senior United Nations official said, after four weeks in which Afghan boys have been allowed a... .
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The Nigerians who want Israel to accept them as Jews
BBC News 18 Oct 2021
Rocking back and forth, Shlomo Ben Yaakov reads from a Torah scroll at a synagogue on the outskirts of Nigeria's capital, Abuja. Intermittently his soft mellow voice rises in Hebrew and he is joined by the dozens who recite after him ... "I consider myself a Jew," says Mr Yaakov ... His given Igbo name is Nnaemezuo Maduako ... Secessionist surge.
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Giant Rome rally urges ban on extreme right
The Jordan Times 17 Oct 2021
ROME — Tens of thousands of Italians called for a ban on the extreme right as they rallied in Rome on Saturday after protests over a tough coronavirus pass regime last weekend degenerated into riots blamed on neo-fascists. Carrying placards reading “Fascism ... The violence has focused attention on the country’s fascist legacy ... Image. Section ... Right .
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Thousands protest in El Salvador against Bukele government
Reuters 18 Oct 2021
SAN SALVADOR, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Thousands of people in El Salvador took to the streets on Sunday to air a range of complaints against President Nayib Bukele, from adopting bitcoin as legal tender to firing Supreme Court judges, viewed by critics as a power grab ... "We are totally losing rights because today they do not respect the laws ... ....
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Japan's Kishida sends ritual offering to notorious Yasukuni shrine
China.dot.org 17 Oct 2021
TOKYO, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Sunday sent a ritual offering to the notorious Yasukuni Shrine, which honors 14 convicted Class-A Japanese war criminals from World War II and is deemed by neighboring countries as a symbol of Japan's past militarism ... Enditem .
