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Pope Francis’s failure to say the word ‘Rohingya’ shows he is no peacemaker | Joanna Moorhead

GAB Gimme a break – what a knee-jerk write off of an attempt to make things better.

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The pontiff felt he had no option but to back out of denouncing persecution in Myanmar because of implications for local Catholics

White is the colour of peace, and no one on the world stage wears it bigger than the pope. Francis is never seen in anything else: his cassock, skull-cap, cape all dove-coloured.

It underlines his role in the global spotlight, so it’s understandable that many people in the world today are disappointed that he failed, in his keynote address in Myanmar, to use the politically and emotionally charged word “Rohingya” to stress his criticism of the crackdown on the Muslim community of the country. In the past, Francis has used the term, denouncing “the persecution of our Rohingya brothers”, who he said were being “tortured and killed, simply because they uphold their Muslim faith”.

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Puerto Rico: urgently needed tarps delayed by failed $30m Fema contract

Another busted GOP fundraising failure!

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Fema paid a newly created Florida company for tarps to help the thousands of people left homeless after Hurricane Maria, but the company couldn’t deliver

After Hurricane Maria damaged tens of thousands of homes in Puerto Rico, a newly created Florida company with an unproven record won more than $30m in contracts from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide emergency tarps and plastic sheeting for repairs.

Related: Whitefish energy company halts work to restore Puerto Rico’s power over unpaid bill

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Rex Tillerson: state department can be cut as we will soon solve global conflicts

Why would anyone want to sound this stupid?

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The secretary of state defended the Trump administration’s plan to slash US diplomacy by 31% despite North Korean missile test and Afghanistan escalation

Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday that the Trump administration’s proposal to slash the state department and foreign aid budget is in part based on an expectation it will be able to resolve some of the global conflicts that have been absorbing costly diplomatic and humanitarian support.

But in a vivid display of the most urgent diplomatic challenge facing the US, Tillerson was speaking as North Korea carried out a new ballistic missile test – the first since it fired a missile over Japan in mid-September.

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‘Their own media megaphone’: what do the Koch brothers want from Time?

Is Time important to anyone under 40? I think not but if Kochs want to throw money away – go ahead!

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The company’s decline is readily apparent – but if the billionaire brothers’ other interests are a guide, their investment will be about more than money

That Charles and David Koch are putting $650m into Meredith Corp’s purchase of Time would ordinarily be cause for great soul-searching in media. But then, these are not ordinary times.

Meredith’s Koch-backed deal with Time – which owns, in addition to Time magazine, titles including People, Fortune and Sports Illustrated – was sealed Sunday night. Meredith said in a statement announcing the deal that they are building “a premier media company serving nearly 200 million American consumers.”

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Saudi prince: New Islamic alliance ‘will wipe out terrorists from earth’

And consistent with Saudi aims, that would include wiping out Shia and Sufi believers? They support growth of fundamentalism and now they are going to fix it – rotflmbo! Saudi Arabia’s powerful crown prince vowed to “pursue terrorists until they are wiped from the face of the earth” as officials from 40 Muslim countries gathered Sunday in the first meeting of an Islamic counter-terrorism alliance.