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Why New Zealand Is Furious About Australia’s Deportations Policy

New Zealanders are now the largest group inside Australian immigration detention centers, straining one of the world’s closest bilateral relationships.

Facebook reveals it gave 61 companies access to widely blocked user data

they were shooting for 100/

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Company tells Congress it provided Nike, Spotify, a dating app and other services with special rights to information

Facebook gave 61 businesses including Nike, Spotify, UPS and dating app Hinge special rights to access user data after blocking such access more broadly.

In written responses to the US Congress on its operations, the social network revealed it granted numerous extensions to access a user’s public profile as well as some data from their friends.

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Matteo Salvini backed by politician ‘with links to mafia’

Just like fascists of old

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Interior minister won senate seat with backing of Giuseppe Scopelliti, who is accused of having ties to ‘Ndrangheta

Matteo Salvini’s electoral victory in the southern region of Calabria during the Italian general election this year was supported by a former politician who law enforcement authorities have claimed has close ties to the ‘Ndrangheta, the criminal organisation that controls most of the cocaine trade in Europe.

The far-right interior minister and head of the League party, who has emerged as a de facto prime minister, won his senate seat in the region with the backing of a former mayor of Reggio Calabria, Giuseppe Scopelliti, with whom Salvini had a political alliance and who was arrested weeks after the March poll for forging documents while he was mayor.

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Brazil: measles outbreak that infected 500 may devastate indigenous people

Collapse in Venezuela has god awful consequences

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Outbreak could be catastrophic for the Yanomami people living in remote areas who are not protected from the disease

An outbreak of measles that has infected nearly 500 people in northern Brazil could prove catastrophic for indigenous Yanomami people in remote areas along the Venezuelan border who are not protected from the disease, according to the not-for-profit group Survival, which warned that hundreds could be killed if emergency action was not taken.

“This disease is a potentially devastating one,” said Jonathan Mazower, Survival’s communications director. “It is extremely likely that people will die unless medical care is provided urgently and it is very likely that people in the forest have already died.”

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Doug Ford scraps carbon tax plan and sets up climate fight with Trudeau

#CanadianTraitor

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Decision to end program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions puts Ontario in line for showdown with federal government

Ontario’s new rightwing government has ended a carbon pricing policy aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Canada’s most populous province.

The move to scrap the cap-and-trade program puts the provincial Conservative government – led by Doug Ford – directly at odds with the federal government’s bid to ensure provinces have a price on carbon in place by the end of 2018.

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US officials told to ask migrant parents: will you leave with or without children?

Child theft!

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Form gives parents two options, prompting objections from immigration advocates who say families are being misled

US immigration officials have been instructed to ask parents separated from their children under Donald Trump’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy to choose whether to return to their countries with – or without – their offspring.

The instructions, laid out in a government form, come one week after a judge ordered the Trump administration to reunite the roughly 2,300 migrant children who were ripped apart from their parents at the border.

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Trump-Russia: more election meddling evidence found, says Senate panel

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Intelligence committee finds ‘further support’ to conclusion that Vladimir Putin and his government aimed to boost Trump

A Republican-controlled Senate panel has said that further evidence has been found to support a US intelligence assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help elect Donald Trump.

Related: US and Russian officials hold ‘frank’ talks before Trump-Putin summit

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The Shunning, Part 4: Scott Pruitt Edition

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The Shunning, Part 4: Scott Pruitt Edition

In the fourth installment of my favorite series “The Shunning”, we catch up with another Trump White House super villain, Scott Pruitt. For readers who have been away from social media or the news for the last few months, Pruitt is a villain with a Capital V. He is evil. He is greed personified. He IS the actual swamp. He is under at least 56 investigations from crimes ranging from abusing his power to making staff hand wash his $3,500 bullet proof underwear to $5,000 helicopter rides to his favorite fast food place, IHOB.

On Monday, Pruitt was the latest official to be greeted warmly by a member of the public while eating out at a restaurant. The woman, Kristin Mink, posted on her Facebook that she urged him to resign. She said:

“EPA head Scott Pruitt was 3 tables away as I ate lunch with my child. I had to say something…We deserve to have somebody at the EPA who actually does protect our environment, someone who believes in climate change and takes it seriously for the benefit of all us, including our children. I would urge you to resign before your scandals push you out.”

In the video, she is seen holding her young child. She remained calm, but firm. The video was viewed thousands of times within the first house, although that number surely has skyrocketed since.

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The Deal of the Century…What the hell is that deal?

What’s the deal? There is none that can or will be talked about so people know what is even possible. Just shadows meeting behind closed doors demanding support for their deal – no questions or knowledge needed! Fie!

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I am about to ask a serious question. What the hell is this deal? Ever since Trump became president, we have heard about this century deal. Trump is creating the century deal. Kushner is making trips to advocate for the Century Deal. Abbas is resisting. The egyptPalestinian leadership is opposing. Arab countries are warning Egypt is silent.

The Deal will be revealed after Ramadan. The deal is out there. Kushner is back. Prince William is touring and eating Falafel. Abbas will not meet Americans. Ramallah is cleaning the city for the American visitors.

The locals are mobilizing themselves to move against the century deal. An analysis is provided about the pros and cons of the deal.

A demonstration is taking the streets. Nasrallah warns the deal has already started.

What the hell is the deal?

why don’t we have one official come out and tell us what the hell this deal is?

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Jerusalem Women : The Growth and Development of Palestinian​ Women Movement during the Mandate Period (Book Launch)

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The  book is an outcome of my MA Thesis in Jerusalem Studies.

The research discusses the development of the women’s movement in Palestine in the early British Mandate period through a photo that was taken in 1945 in Jerusalem during a meeting of women activists from Palestine with the renowned Egyptian feminist Huda Sha’rawi.

The photo sheds light on a side of Palestinian society that hasn’t been well explored or realized by today’s Palestinians. It shows women in a different role than what today, by some is constructed as the “traditional” or “authentic” one.

The photo gives insights into a particular constituency of the Palestinian women’s movement : urban, secular-modernity women activists from the upper echelons of Palestinian society of the time, women without veils, contributing to certain political and social movements that shaped Palestinian life at the time, and connected with other Arab women activists. Veiling or unveiling of…

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