Alexei Navalny: Russia opposition leader poisoned with Novichok - Germany
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent, Germany's government says.
It said toxicology tests at a military laboratory showed "unequivocal proof" of an agent from the Novichok group.
Mr Navalny was airlifted to Berlin for treatment after falling ill during a flight in Russia's Siberia region last month. He has been in a coma since.
Children locked up by parents over Covid should not go home, rules Swedish court
Family ‘nailed apartment door shut with planks’ and isolated three children from each other
Three children taken into care after being locked up by their parents for nearly five months in case they caught the coronavirus should not be allowed to return home, an administrative court in Sweden has ruled.
From March until early July, the children, aged between 10 and 17, were prevented from leaving the family’s apartment, whose door was “nailed shut with planks”, and also kept isolated from each other, according to the court verdict in Jönköping county.
Climate crisis: Ice sheets melting at ‘worst-case scenario’ rate
Millions worldwide at growing risk of flooding, researchers warnChris Baynes
Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are melting at a rate which matches climate scientists’ worst-case scenario forecasts and has raised the global sea level by 1.8cm in the past two decades.
Sea levels will rise by a further 17cm and put 16 million people at risk of yearly coastal flooding if global warming continues apace, British and Danish researchers warned.
Melting of ice in Greenland has pushed the world’s oceans up by 10.6mm since the sheets were first monitored by satellite in the 1990s, while Antarctic ice has contributed a further 7.2mm, according to a study by scientists at the University of Leeds and the Danish Meteorological Institute. The latest measurements show the world’s seas are now rising by 4mm each year.
Anti-pandemic protesters too cozy with neo-Nazis
Thousands of nationalists joined demonstrations against the German government's pandemic measures. Protesters who aren't white supremacists should reconsider the alliances they're forging, DW's Jaafar Abdul Karim writes.
As I walked among the masses who had gathered at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate on Saturday, I saw all kinds of people, and I wanted to talk to as many of the protesters as possible. I was particularly interested in their posters, signs and symbols. One poster read: "Wo Unrecht zu Recht wird, wird Widerstand zur Pflicht," which translates roughly to "Where injustice becomes the law, resistance becomes the duty." "Gib Gates keine Chance" (Don't give Gates a chance), read another, a reference to the bizarre conspiracy theory that the Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates seeks forced vaccinations against the coronavirus.
Khmer Rouge prison commander 'Comrade Duch' dies at 77 in Cambodia
The Khmer Rouge commander known as 'Comrade Duch', Pol Pot's premier executioner and security chief who oversaw the mass murder of at least 14,000 Cambodians at the notorious Tuol Sleng prison, died on Wednesday. He was 77.
Kaing Guek Eav or 'Comrade Duch' was the first member of the Khmer Rouge leadership to face trial for his role within a regime blamed for at least 1.7 million deaths in the "killing fields" of Cambodia from 1975 to 1979.
Duch died at 00:52 a.m. (1752 GMT on Tuesday) at the Khmer Soviet Friendship Hospital in Phnom Penh, Khmer Rouge tribunal spokesman Neth Pheaktra said. He gave no details of the cause, but Duch had been ill in recent years.
Georgia likely removed nearly 200k from voter rolls wrongfully, report says
Updated 1448 GMT (2248 HKT) September 2, 2020
The state of Georgia has likely removed nearly 200,000 Georgia citizens from the voter rolls for wrongfully concluding that those people had moved and not changed the address on their voter registration, when in fact they never moved, according to a new report released on Wednesday.
The ACLU of Georgia released the report which was conducted by the Palast Investigative Fund, a nonpartisan group that focuses on data journalism, on Wednesday.
For the report, Palast hired expert firms to conduct an Advanced Address List Hygiene, a method of residential address verification, to review 313,243 names that were removed from the state's voter rolls in late 2019. Their findings claim that 63.3% of voters had not, in fact, moved and were purged in error.
No comments:
Post a Comment