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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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Roma communities fear deportation in post-Brexit Britain

Fascist favorite targets: Jews, Roma, Gays, Blacks, Browns… anyone one not fascist enough for them

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Charities warn that many lack documentation required to gain settled status

Roma living in the UK are at risk of deportation following Brexit, charities have said, as they warn that many will be unable to provide the necessary documentation to be granted settled status.

Last month, the home secretary, Sajid Javid, said that EU nationals would be asked to answer “three simple questions” in an online form to continue living in the UK once it has left the EU.

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Slowly and patiently, Sturgeon is preparing for a new Scottish independence battle | Kevin McKenna

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The first minister may appear too patient and careful, but her tactics are worthy of Napoleon

Nicola Sturgeon is gathering her forces once more for another tilt at Scottish independence. Her strategy has been a careful one; too careful for some. Thus when she called for an independence referendum in 2016 she already knew that an embattled Theresa May could not possibly grant it. This was a tactical advance that allowed her to measure the appetite for a second referendum at Holyrood and in Scotland while reminding Westminster that the issue would never go away.

Before the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805 Napoleon restrained his generals when the Russian and Austrian forces attempted to cajole the French army’s right flank into a premature skirmish. He knew it was not the right time and place. “The enemy is making a false move, why should we interrupt him,” said Napoleon. It seems that Scotland’s first minister has been urging her chief strategists in a similar vein.

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Trump anti-abortion supreme court pick ‘not acceptable’, says Collins

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As battle lines are drawn for the coming fight over Donald Trump’s second supreme court nominee, a senator who could help to decide the fate of the nomination warned on Sunday that a justice who would seek to reverse federal abortion rights protections “would not be acceptable”.

Related: Is Trump really winning? The truth about the president’s popularity

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