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Revealed: UK government was warned of infected blood risks in 1970s

NEPS — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 05:07:17 +0000

Documents show officials were told blood plasma harvested from US convicts was contaminated with viruses

A commercial blood product at the centre of the biggest treatment scandal in the history of the NHS was approved for use after government officials were told convicts were among the paid donors and virus contamination “should be assumed”, corporate filings reveal.… Read the rest

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Brazilian woman arrested after taking corpse to sign bank loan: ‘She knew he was dead’

NEPS — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 09:47:11 +0000

Shock in Brazil after woman is arrested and charged with violating a corpse and attempted theft through fraud

Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro

When Érika de Souza Vieira wheeled her lethargic-looking uncle into a Brazilian bank, clerks quickly sensed something was amiss.

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Botswana threatens to send 20,000 elephants to Germany in trophy hunting row

NEPS — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 11:10:35 +0000

President Mokgweetsi Masisi voices anger over Berlin’s opposition to the import of trophies over poaching concerns

Guardian staff and agencies

Botswana’s president has threatened to send 20,000 elephants to Germany amid a dispute over the import of hunting trophies.

Earlier this year Germany’s environment ministry raised the possibility of stricter limits on the import of hunting trophies over poaching concerns.

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Tuvalu prime minister calls on Australia for sovereignty ‘guarantees’ over treaty

NEPS — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 15:07:27 +0000

Feleti Teo tells the Guardian Tuvaluans fear last year’s treaty may give Australia too much say over the Pacific nation’s security

Prianka Srinivasan

Tuvalu’s new prime minister, Feleti Teo, wants “guarantees” from Canberra that a landmark treaty with Australia will not undermine his country’s sovereignty.

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Revealed: legal fears over Michael Gove’s new definition of ‘extremism’

NEPS — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 07:19:03 +0000

The communities secretary wants ‘trailblazer’ government departments to pilot a scheme to ban individuals and groups deemed extremist from public life

Jon Ungoed-Thomas

Michael Gove is set to announce a controversial plan this week to ban individuals and groups who “undermine the UK’s system of liberal democracy” from public life, despite fears inside government that the scheme is at risk of a legal challenge, leaked documents reveal.

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Sydney Harbour Bridge and tunnel drivers would be charged tolls in both directions under shakeup

NEPS — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 04:46:22 +0000

NSW government’s interim report on Sydney’s toll road network would use a ‘declining distance-based rate’ of tolling

Elias Visontay Transport and urban affairs reporter

Sydneysiders driving across the Sydney Harbour Bridge and tunnel should be forced to pay fees in both directions, a review into the city’s patchwork toll road network has recommended, alongside a vision to unify all paid roads under a consistent “declining distance-based rate” of tolling.… Read the rest

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The Boy and the Heron, Hayao Miyazaki’s last film, wins Oscar for best animation

NEPS — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 04:39:53 +0000

Master Japanese director wins his second Oscar for story of a young boy searching for his mother during the second world war

Andrew Pulver

@Andrew_Pulver

The Boy and the Heron, supposedly the final film from Japanese master director Hayao Miyazaki, has won the Oscar for best animated feature film at the 96th Academy Awards in Los Angeles.

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US reportedly airlifts embassy staff out of Haiti as gangs besiege political area

NEPS — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 04:34:03 +0000

Officials say marines deployed for night-time evacuation amid intense fighting in Port-au-Prince

Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent

The US has reportedly started airlifting embassy staff out of Haiti under the cover of darkness after dozens of heavily armed gang fighters tried to seize the political quarter of its capital, Port-au-Prince.

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Search continues for hundreds of kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren

NEPS — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 04:29:40 +0000

Two mass abductions were the latest in a series of group kidnappings by gunmen

Angelique Chrisafis and agencies

Nigerian security forces continued to search forests and set up roadblocks in the north-west of the country on Sunday in an attempt to find hundreds of kidnapped schoolchildren, but observers said combing the woodland expanses could take weeks.

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Mount Everest is too crowded and dirty, says last living member of Hillary team

NEPS — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 13:31:37 +0000

Kanchha Sherpa, 91, says more respect should be shown to sacred peak that has been climbed thousands of times since 1953 ascent

Associated Press in Kathmandu

The only surviving member of the mountaineering expedition that first reached the summit of Mount Everest has said the world’s highest peak is too crowded and dirty, and the mountain is a god that needs to be respected.

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