Robert Habeck says he is deleting his Twitter account in reaction to a massive data breach affecting leading German politicians and journalists. The platform, he argued, is full of malice and hatred.
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Erdogan: Turkey Has a Plan to Restore Peace in Syria
Right – let us kill and displace all the Kurds! Genocide is their game. A comprehensive strategy to promote long-term peace and stability in Syria can be achieved through Turkey’s leadership, the president of Turkey writes.
Top Cancer Doctor, Forced Out Over Ties to Drug Makers, Joins Their Ranks
Greed is a powerful eater of souls! AstraZeneca has hired Dr. José Baselga, the former chief medical officer at Memorial Sloan Kettering, to lead its cancer research unit.
“Get Out”: Black Families Harassed in Their Own Homes — ProPublica
Our Documenting Hate database shows that the terrorizing of people where they live is alive and well decades after the civil rights movement.
Source: “Get Out”: Black Families Harassed in Their Own Homes — ProPublica
Ebola outbreak continues to grow in multiple DRC sites
Is the anti-vaccine movement putting lives at risk?
YES!

The re-emergence of the disgraced doctor Andrew Wakefield has fueled a resurgence of vaccine scepticism among rightwing populists. After a surge in measles outbreaks across the EU in 2018, Sarah Boseley looks back at how confidence in the MMR vaccine was dented after Wakefield’s discredited campaign against it. Plus: Sonia Sodha on how to improve the British honours system
In 1998, the British doctor Andrew Wakefield announced that the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) childhood vaccination programme was linked to autism and advised parents against it.
It was one of the most controversial health stories of a generation and caused a media sensation. In the years after his claim, the UK’s immunisation rate plunged and cases of measles soared. The Guardian’s health editor, Sarah Boseley, was at that fateful press conference 20 years ago. Since then, the original research has been widely discredited, Wakefield has been struck off the medical register and the scandal subsided.
German data breach: agencies ‘failing to take security seriously’

Bavarian interior minister ‘astonished’ at handling of biggest data leak in German history
The German government and security agencies have been accused of not taking internet security seriously, following a huge data breach that affected hundreds of politicians and celebrities.
Joachim Herrmann, interior minister for the southern state of Bavaria, said he was appalled at the way the federal government and information security agency, the BSI, was handling the scandal, the biggest data leak in German history, after it was revealed it had dismissed a breach in December as one-off incident.
UFC’s Polyana Viana says mugging ended in predictable and bloody fashion

- Strawweight says alleged attacker needed medical attention
- ‘He took the punches very quickly, I think he was scared’
The population of Rio de Janeiro is just over 6 million. On Saturday night, an alleged mugger managed to pick out a UFC fighter among those multitudes.
UFC strawweight Polyana Viana says she was waiting for an Uber when she was approached by a man claiming to have a gun. The results weren’t pretty.
Netanyahu demands live TV showdown with his accusers | World news | The Guardian “Does he support all criminal proceedings in Israel now be conducted on live television?”
‘I have nothing to lose’, says Israeli prime minister implicated in three corruption cases as elections loom
Source: Netanyahu demands live TV showdown with his accusers | World news | The Guardian
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Talks to Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes
“I know that when the sun sets on my life, I want to be able to tell my grandchildren that we established a single-payer system, tuition for universities, and that we saved the climate for their future, because we decided to be courageous in the moment and make it happen,” she said.
Source: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Talks to Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes
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