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The Trump administration unveils a stealth attack on people with preexisting conditions

Trump administration officials apparently are prepared to go to their graves insisting that they did everything possible to protect Americans with preexisting medical conditions, even as they pull out the stops to undermine those protections.

The latest example of this subterfuge came in late October,…

‘Yemenis are left so poor they kill themselves before the hunger does’

Saudi death squads!

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As peace talks to end war in Yemen continue, three local aid workers from the Norwegian Refugee Council describe its devastating impact

More than 10,000 people in Yemen have been killed and 3 million forced to flee their homes as a result of almost four years of fighting. An estimated 22 million people are now in need of aid and up to 13 million face starvation. As talks to end the conflict continue in Sweden, three Yemeni aid workers from the Norwegian Refugee Council talk of the physical and emotional destruction the fighting has brought to their country.

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Orthodox Rabbis Accused Of ‘Mafia-Like’ Tactics In Blacklisting Lesbian Comic From Kosher Restaurants

Orthodox Rabbis Accused Of 'Mafia-Like' Tactics In Blacklisting Lesbian Comic From Kosher Restaurants

A group of ultra-Orthodox rabbis allegedly threatened to revoke the kosher certifications of two Brooklyn restaurants last week, after learning that the businesses had planned to host a comedy show featuring a lesbian performer. The “mafia-like tactics” were successful, according to event organizers, who say they’ve since been barred from both venues. [ more › ]

Armenia election: reformist PM Nikol Pashinian wins convincing victory

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Former newspaper editor marks dramatic break from the cadre of rulers who have run Armenia since the late 1990s

Armenia’s acting prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, has bolstered his authority after his political bloc won early parliamentary elections in the former Soviet country, the Central Election Commission’s (CEC) results showed.

My Step Alliance, which includes Pashinyan’s Civil Contract Party, won 70.4% of the vote on Sunday based on results from all polling stations, the CEC said on its website.

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Illegal mining in Brazil’s rainforests has become an ‘epidemic’

Final death race

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Campaigners release map showing scale of pollution and damage to environment caused by small-scale miners

An epidemic of illegal artisanal mining across the Amazon rainforest has been revealed in an unprecedented new map, pinpointing 2,312 sites in 245 areas across six Amazon countries.

Called garimpo in Brazil, artisanal mining for gold and other minerals in Amazon forests and rivers has been a problem for decades and is usually illegal. It is also highly polluting: clearings are cut into forests, mining ponds carved into the earth, and mercury used in extraction is dumped in rivers, poisoning fish stocks and water supplies. But its spread has never been shown before.

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Supreme court snubs attempts to block Planned Parenthood funding – live

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6.56pm GMT

Top executives in the construction and facilities department of Bloomberg LP, the company owned by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, are set to be arrested on fraud, theft and bribery charges, the New York Times reports.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office is alleging a wide-ranging pay to play scheme, where subcontractors and vendors paid bribes and kickbacks over the course of almost four years to executives at Bloomberg and at Turner Construction, a general contractor that oversaw work at Bloomberg.

6.17pm GMT

New York Yankees president Randy Levine, who is reportedly one of the people Donald Trump is looking at to be his chief of staff, tells Fox News he’s not really interested.

@FoxNews exclusive from Randy Levine: “I have spoken to nobody about the chief of staff job. I have grest respect for the President but am very happy being president of the Yankees” @Yankees @MLB @realDonaldTrump

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Chile declines to sign U.N. pact, says migration not a human right: report

1. The creator did not create the world with boundaries.
2. The evolution of humankind depended/depends on migration as circumstances for survival change! Chile has become the latest country to pull out of a controversial United Nations migration pact, its interior ministry indicated, provoking fury among opposition parties who accused Sebastian Pinera’s government of “shameful and authoritarian” behavior.

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