Child labour rampant in tobacco industry
Cigarettes sold in US, Europe and elsewhere contain leaf produced in tough conditions by children, impacting school and life chances
Child labour in tobacco is rampant and on the increase in poorer countries, a major Guardian investigation can reveal, in spite of claims by multibillion-dollar companies that they are tackling the issue.
Evidence from three continents shows how children aged 14 and under are kept out of school and employed in hard and sometimes harmful physical labour to produce the tobacco leaf that fills cigarettes sold internationally, including in the UK, US and mainland Europe.
Families are trapped in generational poverty while salaries at the top of the industry run to millions of dollars a year. The companies say they monitor child labour and remove children from the fields to go to school, but experts have told the Guardian that the numbers are going up, not down, as tobacco growing increases in Africa and Asia.
Mexican town's entire police force detained in connection with murder of mayoral candidate
This year’s election is the bloodiest in Mexico’s modern history
The entire police force of a Mexican town has been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the murder of a candidate for mayor.
Twenty-eight police officers from the town of Ocampo were detained by the police’s internal affairs department.
State authorities issued a statement saying the probe focused on potential violations of the police code of conduct, without giving more details.
However, local media said the officers were held on suspicion of being complicit in the killing of Fernando Angeles Juarez, who was running for mayor of Ocampo.
Rabbis, imams in Berlin bike ride against anti-Semitism, Islamophobia
Jews and Muslims teamed up on tandem bikes to protest growing anti-Semitic and Islamophobic violence. It comes amid ongoing concerns over migration and the rise of Germany's nationalist AfD party.
Some 50 people, mainly Jews and Muslims, rode tandem bikes through Berlin on Sunday in a show of unity against anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim violence.
The cyclists — among them rabbis and imams — made their way from Berlin's Holocaust memorial to Bebelplatz, where the Nazi regime ordered the burning of around 20,000 books in 1933. Christians and non-religious people as well as Berlin politicians joined in.
Walk or die: Algeria abandons 13,000 refugees in the Sahara
Associated Press report details witness accounts of migrants and refugees from Africa left to die in the Sahara Desert.
Algeria has abandoned more than 13,000 people in the Sahara Desert over the past 14 months, including pregnant women and children, expelling them without food or water and forcing them to walk, sometimes at gunpoint, under a blistering sun. Some never make it out alive.
The expelled migrants and refugees can be seen coming over the horizon by the hundreds, appearing at first as specks in the distance under temperatures of up to 48 degrees Celsius.
Protest held in Okinawa against landfill for U.S. base transfer
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Okinawa residents held a protest demonstration at sea Monday against scheduled land reclamation work for the relocation of a U.S. military base within Japan's southernmost island prefecture.
Some 70 canoes and several small vessels were used by the protesters as they faced off patrol vessels of the Japan Coast Guard off the Henoko coastal area of Nago, where U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma is scheduled to be relocated from densely populated Ginowan.
More than half of the canoes entered the construction work area and their occupants subsequently arrested. Protestors held placards carrying messages such as "Don't construct a base," and "Don't dump gravel."
Inside a right-wing group’s safe space for young, Trump-supporting women
Deep in the basement of a concrete hotel by the airport, inside a bunkerlike conference room flanked by security guards, two young conservative superstars sit in a virtual bubble.
Throughout the building, like-minded travelers are gathering for a four-day Young Women’s Leadership Summit hosted by a conservative group known as Turning Point USA. They pack the Hyatt’s elevators and line up to meet their idols: Tomi Lahren, Dana Loesch, Kellyanne Conway. At the bar, they buy drinks they’d only recently come of age to purchase and lounge by the pool draped in Trump-branded towels.
This is a place where right-leaning women who feel under attack on their liberal school campuses can don their MAGA hats, profess their Ben Shapiro crushes and question the existence of the patriarchy without fear of insult.
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