5 d. ago ‘We had to swim to safety. I didn’t think we would make it out alive’: the people fleeing climate breakdown – in pictures

Photographers Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer capture the families, farmers and fishers who have been forced to leave their homes by extreme weather – and the landscapes they left behind. Introduction by Dina NayeriIn 2009, Swiss photographers Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer set out to document the people suffering the first shocks of the climate crisis. They had just returned from China, where rapid, unregulated development has ravaged the natural landscapes. Back home, though, the debate still felt strangely theoretical. “In 2009, you still had people who denied climate change,” Braschler recalls. “People said, ‘This is media hype.’” So the couple, working with the Global Humanitarian Forum in Geneva and supported by Kofi Annan, began The Human Face of Climate Change, a portrait series that showed the people on the frontline of a warming world.Sixteen years later, climate change is no longer up for debate; the urgent discussions now revolve around solutions. Braschler an...

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1 week ago Can a wildlife paradise on a Colombian island survive the arrival of a military base?

It took 40 years to turn Gorgona into a biodiversity haven and model marine protected area. Now a new coastguard station has sparked fears of militarisation and ecological ruinFor more than 15 years, Luis Fernando Sánchez Caicedo had dedicated himself to human rights in Colombia, supporting young people and advocacting for Afro-descendant and campesino – small farmer – communities in the Pacific region. A prominent local leader and adviser to the area’s administration in Nariño, he was also a longtime collaborator with the Institute for Development and Peace Studies (Indepaz), working to promote dialogue in a country torn apart by decades of war.That all ended in September when the boat carrying him and the mayor of Mosquera, Karen Lizeth Pineda, was fired on, reportedly by the Colombian navy. Sánchez was killed and the mayor’s bodyguard was seriously injured in the attack. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Serbia president 'involved in sick human safaris where tourists paid to be snipers'

A shocking letter to prosecutors has claimed Serbia's current president took part in 'human safaris' where innocent civilians were allegedly shot by rich foreigners for a £70,000 weekend trip

Politics

1 week ago Serbian leader denies involvement in Sarajevo 'human safari' sniper trips as macabre picture emerges showing skull in a helmet 'on car used by militia boss'

The Serbian president has denied any involvement with the 'human safari' trips during the Balkan wars of the 1990s, when tourists allegedly paid to shoot at civilians in besieged Sarajevo.

Politics

2 w. ago Serbia's current president is accused of involvement in Sarajevo 'human safaris' where foreign tourists paid to be snipers and kill civilians

Aleksandar Vučić, who took office in 2017, has been accused of taking part in trips for wealthy foreign tourists to shoot at civilians during the four-year siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s.

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2 w. ago Serbia's current president is accused of taking part in Sarajevo 'human safaris' where foreign tourists paid to be snipers and kill civilians

Aleksandar Vučić, who took office in 2017, has been accused of taking part in trips for wealthy foreign tourists to shoot at civilians during the four-year siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s.

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2 w. ago Sarajevo 'human safari' scandal escalates as Serbian leader is accused of involvement in horrific hunting trips where foreign tourists picked off civilians with snipers during 90s siege

Aleksandar Vučić, who took office in 2017, has been accused of taking part in trips for wealthy foreign tourists to shoot at civilians during the four-year siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s.

Politics

2 w. ago 'Sarajevo 'human safari' hunters must HANG': Massacre survivors demand death penalty for tourists who paid to shoot civilians during 1990s siege

More than 11,000 civilians were killed during the 1992 to 1995 siege, when Bosnian Serb forces surrounded Sarajevo and fired on the city from the hills above it.

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2 w. ago The TRUTH behind Sarajevo's 'human safaris': Shocking testimonies of men who watched 'elite, wealthy hunters' shoot civilians after paying huge sums for a chance to murder women and children

Prosecutors in Milan have opened an investigation into Italian tourists who allegedly paid £70,000 to shoot innocent people in 'human safari' hunting trips to Sarajevo, with extra charged to kill children.

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2 w. ago The truth behind the chemtrail conspiracy – and why it just won’t go away

Everyone has looked up at the clouds and seen faces, animals, objects. Human brains are hardwired for this kind of whimsy. But some people – perhaps a surprising number – look to the sky and see government plots and wicked deeds written there. Conspiracy theorists say that contrails – long streaks of condensation left by aircraft – are actually chemtrails, clouds of chemical or biological agents dumped on the unsuspecting public for nefarious purposes. Different motives are ascribed, from weather control to mass poisoning.

Politics

2 w. ago Member of US Congress vows to find Americans who participated in ‘human safari’ in besieged Sarajevo

Foreigners would allegedly pay up to £88,000 to shoot at unarmed civilians

Politics

3 w. ago Sniper tourists’ allegedly paid £70,000 to shoot civilians in ‘human safaris’

The snipers were considered the most feared element of life under siege in Sarajevo as they would pick off people on the streets at random, including small children

Economics

3 w. ago Tourists 'paid £70,000 to shoot people in human safari hunting trip' during war

Shocking case in Italian courts claims rich foreigners took weekend trips to Bosnia to kill innocent civilians and children during the conflict, which saw more than 11,000 killed by snipers and shelling between 1992 and 1996

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3 w. ago Tourists 'paid £70,000 to shoot innocent people in "human safari" hunting trips to Sarajevo

Prosecutors in Milan have opened an investigation into Italian tourists who allegedly paid £70,000 to shoot innocent people in 'human safari' hunting trips to Sarajevo, with extra charged to kill children.

Economics