84 m. ago U.N. food agency to suspend food aid for 750,000 people in Somalia next month

The U.N. food agency has announced cuts to food assistance for hundreds of thousands in Somalia, where millions face the devastating effects of climate change and severe hunger

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5 h. ago Vast £59 million development will provide hundreds of student flats near historic Edinburgh park

“The addition of 298 high quality, affordable student bedrooms in Edinburgh will help to improve supply, while also freeing up much-needed privately rented homes for families and young professionals” – Joe Lister, Unite

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12 h. ago ICE just bought new tool to monitor hundreds of millions of smartphones. Experts say it’s dangerous

Move comes after immigration agencies ceased buying some location data during Biden administration after inspectors found they abused privacy protections

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3 d. ago California mansions worth hundreds of millions on verge of collapsing into ocean after cliff crumbled

A coastal bluff along Marguerite Drive in Rancho Palos Verdes gave way on Saturday night, which is home to multiple properties worth millions of dollars.

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7 d. ago US marketing companies are helping to rebrand the genocide in Gaza | Arwa Mahdawi

Reports say PR teams are working busy rewriting history in real time – not that the American media needs the helpIf a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?You’ve heard that one before, but here’s a new version of the thought experiment: if a genocide takes place but you prevent foreign journalists from observing it, kill the key witnesses and spend hundreds of millions of dollars on propaganda, then will anyone care? Continue reading...

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1 week ago Mum had 'genius' reason for buying baby monitor and it's not to watch her children

The mum has two children both aged under two years old so a baby monitor is an essential tool - but the 'real reason' she bought isn't for looking in on her daughters

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2 w. ago Channel people smuggler warns 2,000 asylum seekers could be sent to Britain EVERY DAY using new bigger boats in an industry now worth 'hundreds of millions'

The second migrant was successfully deported to France as part of the agreement this morning - only for hundreds more to set off in dinghies from a beach near Calais.

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2 w. ago World’s largest mosquito factory to protect millions from deadly ‘break

The painful disease transmitted by mosquitoes infects hundreds of millions globally each year

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2 w. ago China’s ‘temple economy’ in the spotlight as scandals rock influential religious leaders

Powerful Buddhist monks who have previously escaped punishment are the latest target of the government’s crackdown on excess wealth and alleged corruptionFor a religious leader, the allegations were scandalous. Mistresses, illegitimate children, embezzlement. But in 2015, the head abbott of Shaolin monastery, the cradle of Zen Buddhism and kung-fu in China, was untouchable. Shi Yongxin, the so-called “CEO monk” who turned the 1,500-year-old monastery into a commercial empire worth hundreds of millions of yuan, held firm. Soon he was cleared of all charges.But 10 years later, the 60-year-old monk was not so lucky. In July, not long after Shi returned from a trip to the Vatican to meet the late Pope Francis, the Shaolin Temple released a statement saying that he was being investigated for allegedly misappropriating funds and for fathering illegitimate children with multiple mistresses. Less than a fortnight later he was dismissed and stripped of his monkhood. He has not been heard fro...

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2 w. ago Middle England faces £250 council tax hikes as Labour presses on with Rayner's 'mega councils' plan despite her resignation

Research has found residents of local authorities with populations above half a million pay hundreds of pounds more a year for services.

Economics

3 w. ago Philadelphia mass transit agency gets OK to use project money to avoid bus, trolley and rail cuts

Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration is approving the use of hundreds of millions of dollars in capital project funding for Philadelphia’s public transit agency to help it restore bus, trolley and rail services that it had eliminated to shore up its deficit-riddled finances

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3 w. ago Need I list all the reasons why Trump shouldn’t get a Nobel peace prize? | Sidney Blumenthal

Trump has been an enabler of war, famine, disease and deathDonald Trump’s thuggish campaign to bully his way to the Nobel peace prize should not be the cause for the committee to reject him. There are many more substantial grounds that render him patently unqualified to receive the award.Among the numerous reasons that make him one of the least deserving people in the world who should be honored, he has single-handedly destroyed the United States Agency for International Development, which has saved hundreds of millions of people from hunger and disease, and promoted democracy and the rule of law around the world. In an executive order issued on his inauguration day, 20 January, Trump slandered USAID as “not aligned with American interests and in many cases antithetical to American values” and claimed that its workers “serve to destabilize world peace”.Sidney Blumenthal, former senior adviser to Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, has published three books of a projected five-volume p...

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4 w. ago Northwestern president announces resignation following tenure marked by White House tension

Northwestern University President Michael Schill announced Thursday that he will resign, ending a three-year tenure marked by the freeze of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding by the Trump administration and heated criticism from House Republicans over the university’s response to campus protests

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