‘Parenting here means checking the ingredients of teargas’: my return to Hong Kong
Emma-Lee Moss, who makes music as Emmy the Great, on life, new motherhood and her divided birthplace It feels as if the entire worlds press is there, standing on the pavement outside the Foreign Correspondents Club. Theyre in Hong Kong to cover the protests, but tonight, the Friday before National...
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Tom Cruise almost had arm broken over Diet Coke confusion in pub in 1991, Irish MP claims
Actor assaulted with support regional drinker while recording Far and Away in Co Kerry, political leader informs TELEVISION program The star Tom Cruise nearly had his arm broken by an angry drinker in an Irish bar who implicated him of attempting to take the barman’s cigarettes, a Kerry political leader...
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‘It’s where we come from’: the River People in Mexico left without a river
The demise of the Colorado River has destroyed the social fabric of the Cucap tribe and is partly to blame for its population decline They are called the River People, but they no longer have a river. Inocencia Gonzlez is the traditional tribal elder of the Cucap the River People...
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Cubans’ resilience sorely tested as US oil sanctions bite
As Washington penalizes Cuba for supporting Venezuela, Cubans are changing tractors with oxen and oil with fire wood O n a clammy early morning in eastern Havana, a bus stuffed with more than 100 sweaty commuters draws in to a bus stop. The doors open and more guests press in...
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Nobel prize in medicine awarded to hypoxia researchers
William Kaelin, Sir Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza exercised how cells adjust to oxygen accessibility Three researchers have actually shared this year’s Nobel reward in physiology or medication for finding how the body reacts to modifications in oxygen levels, among the most vital procedures for life. William Kaelin Jr at...
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This asylum seeker was shot in the head. Ice jailed him and gave him ibuprofen
Rolando, a native guy who endured a shooting and abuse in Guatemala, was suffering blinding headaches when he showed up in the United States Some days, Rolando would bleed out of his eyes, ears and nose. Other days, he ‘d push the flooring, hardly mindful or woozy. But whenever the...
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Diabetes drug offers hope of new treatment for multiple sclerosis
Trial utilizing rats revealed the drug metformin fixed nerve damage triggered by the illness Scientists have actually raised hopes of a brand-new treatment for numerous sclerosis after animal research studies revealed a typical diabetes drug can fix nerve damage triggered by the illness. The result of the drug was so...
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‘You’ll suffocate me’: Turkish newspaper reveals Khashoggi’s last words
Sabah paper states recording was gotten by Turkeys intelligence firm In his last words, Saudi reporter Jamal Khashoggi advised his killers not to cover his mouth due to the fact that he had asthma and might suffocate, according to Turkey’s Sabah paper. The paper, which is close to Turkey’s federal...
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Cokie Roberts, famed journalist and political commentator, dies at 75
Roberts invested years at ABC News, composed books and never ever ended up being negative, associates state: When I consider politics, I consider Cokie Roberts Cokie Roberts, the child of political leaders who matured to cover the household organisation in Washington for ABC News and NPR over numerous years, passed...
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There are reasons to be cheerful. These are the dying days of a rancid old order | Will Hutton
In the UK and the United States, the political wind will quickly alter in favour of those requiring excellent federal government D on’t misery. We might be enduring a tried rightwing transformation, however its structures are rotten. There might be a counter-revolution, as there wants every transformation, and it will...
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