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Russia formally withdraws from INF nuclear treaty

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Russia said it has suspended the arms treaty, a month after tit-for-tat threats bounced between Moscow and Washington. The Trump administration has accused Russia of violating the Reagan-era accord.

‘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

profit ignore reaity

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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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As the toll of Australia’s frontier brutality keeps climbing, truth telling is long overdue | Paul Daley

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The myth of benign, peaceful settlement persists today – even as historians reveal a far more sinister picture

• The Killing Times: the massacres of Aboriginal people Australia must confront
• A massacre map of the frontier wars – interactive

A friend sent me a photograph he’d taken in north-west Queensland of the memorial to the Kalkadoon warriors who, in 1884, fought what was perhaps the biggest battle against government forces to unfold on this continent.

Local oral history, black and white, has it that dozens of Indigenous fighters were shot dead after they charged native police contingents under the command of Sub-Inspector FC Urquhart at Battle Mountain, about 60km from Cloncurry.

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Facebook faces backlash over users’ safety phone numbers

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Contact details supplied by users to enable two-factor authentication led to reduced privacy

Facebook has been accused of abusing a security feature in order to weaken user privacy, after the social network was found using phone numbers initially handed over for account safety for other purposes.

The company now faces criticism that it will be harder to convince users to take other necessary security measures if users view this as an abuse of trust.

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Police union appeals against firing of officer who shot dead Tamir Rice

No sense, shame, or sanity.

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Timothy Loehmann cleared in 2014 shooting but fired in 2017 for failing to disclose he had been forced out by another department

A police union says it has appealed against the firing of a white Cleveland officer who shot dead Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old black boy who was playing with a pellet gun.

Related: Black Lives Matter: birth of a movement | Wesley Lowery

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Fox News reportedly killed Stormy Daniels story to help Trump win

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Diana Falzone ‘had obtained proof’ of alleged affair but was told: ‘Rupert wants Donald Trump to win. So just let it go’

Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News channel knew about Donald Trump’s illegal hush money payment to a pornographic film actor ahead of the 2016 election but killed the story because the media mogul wanted him to win, it was reported on Monday.

Related: Mueller report to be ‘instantly’ printed as a book, if made public

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