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France stops sales of two US pesticides over threat to bees

A French court on Friday halted sales of two pesticides made by US chemicals giant Dow after an environmental group raised fears that the substances could be harmful to bees.

Saudi Arabia still barring aid to Yemen despite pledge to lift siege

Covering up genocide as self-defense is not so easy.

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Saudi-led coalition has failed to lift blockade on Yemen’s ports, leaving tens of thousands without food and medicine

Aid agencies said Saudi Arabia has not fulfilled its promise to reopen humanitarian aid corridors into northern Yemen, leaving the main aid lifeline closed for tens of thousands of starving people.

Following intense pressure from western governments, Saudi Arabia agreed on Wednesday to lift a fortnight-long blockade of the port of Hodeida from noon (9am GMT) on Thursday, but in an update at lunchtime on Friday, aid agencies said no permissions for humanitarian shipments had been given.

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Church of Sweden to stop referring to God as ‘he’ or ‘Lord’

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Head of largest Swedish Christian church says God is beyond human gender determination

The Church of Sweden is urging its clergy to use gender-neutral language when referring to the supreme deity, refraining from using terms such as “Lord” and “he” in favour of the less specific “God.”

The move is one of several taken by the national Evangelical Lutheran church in updating a 31-year-old handbook setting out how services should be conducted in terms of language, liturgy, hymns and other aspects.

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Egypt mosque attack: state TV raises death toll to 155

Of the sickest murders, those committed under the guise of religious belief are I think the vilest. Those murdered are gone and good people in the same religion, are cut as well.

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Dozens more wounded after suspected militants target al-Rawdah mosque in north Sinai

At least 155 people have been killed and dozens more injured in a devastating bomb and gun attack targeting a mosque in Egypt’s north Sinai, state television has reported.

Ambulances ferried casualties from the scene to nearby hospitals after the attack on al-Rawdah mosque in Bir al-Abed, west of Arish city. At least 85 people were injured, the Mena news agency reported. The death toll rose repeatedly on Friday afternoon as more details emerged.

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US calls Myanmar treatment of Rohingya ‘ethnic cleansing’

Of course, he is a part of an administration that continues several hundred years of ethnic cleansing of the people who lived on this land by invading refugee and adventurer Europeans. And these same people will try and use their newfound sympathy for these refugees to fend off criticism of how they support the ethnic cleansing by the right-wing governments in Saudi Arabia (against Yemen), Israel (against Palestinians) and Iraq/Turkey (against the Kurds).

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Rex Tillerson also hints at possible sanctions as UN envoy on sexual violence condemns ‘war crimes’

The United States has called the Myanmar military operation against the Rohingya population “ethnic cleansing” and threatened targeted sanctions against those responsible for what it called “horrendous atrocities”.

“The situation in northern Rakhine state constitutes ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya,” secretary of state Rex Tillerson said in a statement, using a term he avoided when visiting Myanmar last week.

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From inboxing to thought showers: how business bullshit took over

Attack on Bullshit in organizations is an often repeated part of the process of change and is related to being anti-PC – grin – AKA: we are stuck in trendy change, so… “let’s get back to basics.” The writer here does not seem to realise that his article is a repeat of many similar articles, speeches, songs or poems critiquing society and then becoming the next new PC. And so it goes until… smile.

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Vacuous management-speak is easily laughed off – but is there a real cost to talking rubbish? By André Spicer

In early 1984, executives at the telephone company Pacific Bell made a fateful decision. For decades, the company had enjoyed a virtual monopoly on telephone services in California, but now it was facing a problem. The industry was about to be deregulated, and Pacific Bell would soon be facing tough competition.

The management team responded by doing all the things managers usually do: restructuring, downsizing, rebranding. But for the company executives, this wasn’t enough. They worried that Pacific Bell didn’t have the right culture, that employees did not understand “the profit concept” and were not sufficiently entrepreneurial. If they were to compete in this new world, it was not just their balance sheet that needed an overhaul, the executives decided. Their 23,000 employees needed to be overhauled as well.

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