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U.S. lawmakers complain Trump has taken ‘no meaningful action’ on abuse of China Muslims

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers complained to the Trump administration on Monday that its response to rights abuses against China’s Muslim minority was inadequate months after it said it was looking into imposing sanctions.

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Trump plans to end India’s preferential trade treatment

HAHAHAHA – he now caves t China – said he was going to side with Modi and now drops him like a rock in the midst of Modi’s election. Trumpy can’t decided which dictator to have his bromance with? U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he intends to end India’s preferential trade treatment under a program that allows $5.6 billion worth of Indian exports to enter the United States duty free.

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‘We are fighting’: Brazil’s indigenous groups unite to protect their land

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Residents of Raposa Serra do Sol are determined to face down the threat posed by mining

“A united people will never be defeated!” shouted Maria Betânia Mota, as the indigenous assembly in a partially burned-out agricultural college began. Hundreds of voices roared back in approval.

Betânia Mota is the women’s secretary of its organisers, the Indigenous Council of Roraima (CIR), which represents the majority of those living in the 1.7m hectares of savannah and scrub that make up the Raposa Serra do Sol reserve in Brazil’s northernmost state.

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Europe’s forests threatened by biodiversity collapse, warn campaigners

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Logging in Poland’s Vistula lagoon described by experts as part of a ‘war on nature’ across the continent’s ancient forests

A logging operation at Poland’s spectacular 55-mile-long Vistula lagoon is casting a “dark omen” of deforestation and biodiversity collapse across Europe’s forests, campaigners say.

Tree felling around the Natura 2000 site is aimed at clearing a path to the Baltic Sea for use by Poland’s navy, to the alarm of Russia. But they are just one front in what some academics describe as a war on nature.

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Donald Trump tells a fake American story. We must tell the real one | Robert Reich

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The Triumphant Individual, the Benevolent Community, the Mob at the Gates, the Rot at the Top. Four narratives define America – true Americans must define them

Donald Trump has perfected the art of telling a fake story about America. The only way to counter that is to tell the real story of America.

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