28 October 2022

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Eyewitness Canada
Étang Baker near East Bolton in Quebec, amid the vivid autumnal colours of the surrounding woodland. Situated near the peaks of Mont Gauvin and Mont Glen, around two hours from Montreal, the naturally occurring heart-shaped lake has become a regular
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Another British PM, Brazil Holds Its Breath And Cop27 Masquerade
Britain’s political fever dream continued apace this week as Rishi Sunak became prime minister without anyone even voting for him. The former chancellor, the country’s third prime minister in less than two months and the fifth in six years, is also t
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Global Report
Trump must submit Capitol attack account under oath The House January 6 select committee has formally transmitted a subpoena to Donald Trump, compelling the former president to provide an account under oath about his potential foreknowledge of the Ca
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Deaths
James McDivitt Former Nasa astronaut, who commanded the Gemini IV and Apollo 9 missions. He died on 13 October, aged 93. Ngo Vinh Long Vietnamese American scholar and writer who was a prominent campaigner against the Vietnam war. He died on 12 Octobe
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Science Andenvironment
Next pandemic may come from melting glaciers The next pandemic may come not from bats or birds but from matter in melting ice, according to new data. Genetic analysis of soil and lake sediments from Lake Hazen, the largest high Arctic freshwater lake
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Nouveau Rishi
‘A historic moment’ Britain’s first leader of colour Page 15→ Jonathan Freedland Truss’s neoliberal experiment fails Page 16→ Rishi Sunak was confirmed as Britain’s third prime minister in less than two months on Monday, after another week of politic
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Conservatives
Rishi Sunak becomes PM after Liz Truss resigns Liz Truss announced last Thursday she was quitting No 10 after a calamitous six weeks in office, triggering a Tory leadership contest. On Monday the winner, Rishi Sunak, became the fifth Conservative pri
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Diversity Multicultural Milestone As UK Has Its First PM Of Colour
Rishi Sunak is the UK’s first prime minister of colour and the first Hindu prime minister, both milestones in Britain’s evolution as a multicultural and multi-faith society. Although there has been a marked increase in politicians of colour being app
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A Busted Flush Truss Discredited High-octane, Freemarket Economics, Perhaps For Ever
Boris Johnson’s tenure had been short, but it had been consequential. At first glance, a similar verdict on Liz Truss’s 50 days in office seems improbable. There is no record of positive achievement. Her accomplishment was to have smashed up so much
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Terrif Ied Villagers F Lee As The Battle For Kherson Rages On
As she was driven by her son out of Dudchany, a small village in the north-east of the Kherson region a few days ago, Rosaliya Kovalchuk, 72, glimpsed something that will haunt her forever. “Hanging from the branches of a tree were guts from a man’s
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Igor Girkin Hopes MH17 Suspect May Be Captured In F Ighting
Piet Ploeg felt a glimmer of hope that justice would, at last, be served when he read the news that the prominent Russian nationalist Igor Girkin may be returning to the battlefield in Ukraine. Ploeg’s brother, sister-in-law and nephew were killed al
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Spotlight
ISRAEL Will it be third term lucky for Netanyahu? Page 21 → ■
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Football Celebration Puts IRA Chant In The Spotlight
Achant with five syllables, dating from the 1980s, has roared back to divide Ireland, anger British politicians and subvert history: ooh, ah, up the ’Ra. The chorus of Celtic Symphony, a song by the folk group the Wolfe Tones, celebrates the IRA with
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Netanyahu Plots Path Away From Scandal And Back To Top
Everyone in Jerusalem’s district court was tired of looking at old receipts for whiskey, cognac and cigars. Even the key witness in one of former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s three corruption trials was bored with answering questions about how
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Stand Off Election Divides Voters – And Gangsters
Abank robber, a gunrunner and a weed smuggler sat down in a square, surrounded by rifle-toting bodyguards and became locked in debate over their country’s political future. “Life’s been easier under Bolsonaro. It’s easier to get guns. It’s easier to
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Social Media F Irms ‘Are Undermining Democracy’
YouTube and Facebook are allowing disinformation to be spread about Brazil’s election campaign in an already polarised and violent election, according to a report by human rights organisation Global Witness. The NGO produced a series of purposely mis
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Ring Of Power Ruthless Xi Settles In For Another Five Years
Rana Mitter p45→ Xi Jinping named acolytes in key political positions last Sunday as he was confirmed as China’s leader for a precedent-breaking third term after a weeklong political meeting that eliminated rivals and strengthened his power. Xi loyal
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Relief And Unease As Two Years Of Isolation F Inally End
After more than two years of near-total isolation, Japan has reopened its borders to overseas visitors – but the road back to the pre-Covid tourism boom could be long and bumpy. Early this month, the country lifted some of the strictest pandemic bord
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‘We Have Waged War On Nature, It Is Striking Back’
It has been a drenched 2022 for many parts of the world, at times catastrophically so. A year of disastrous flooding perhaps reached its nadir in Pakistan, where a third of the country was inundated by heavy rainfall from June, killing more than 1,00
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‘I Wouldn’t Call It A Subculture, It’s Everyone’
‘Faces of exes,” Mia Landsem read out loud, as she clicked on a link to a forum exposing intimate images of ex-girlfriends. On the 25-year-old’s neck, underneath wisps of blond hair, are tattooed reminders in Norwegian to be “brave” and “don’t give a
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Can Period Tracking Help Athletes Win?
It should have been a show of British sporting dominance when Dina Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita made it to the 100-metre final of the European Championedly, ships in August. Then, unexpect Asher-Smith pulled up and Neita was not quick enough for the
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Despite Turmoil, Star Ballerina Strikes Note Of Optimism
Cuba’s favourite ballerina, Viengsay Valdés, will run on to the stage of the island’s National Theatre on 2 November, fairly certain that it won’t collapse beneath her. Reprising the role of Giselle she first performed 25 years ago, she can’t use Hav
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Open House? Republicans Plan To Sink Key Biden Legislation
Astandoff over the debt ceiling. Aid to Ukraine on the chopping block. And impeachment proceedings against homeland security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas – or perhaps even president Joe Biden himself. With polls indicating that they have a good shot
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‘I Struggle With The so-called Free World Compared With Life In Prison’
CHELSEA MANNING’S MEMOIR OPENS LIKE A JASON BOURNE novel with a scene in which the then 22-year-old, on t he last day of two weeks’ military leave, tries to leak an enormous amount of classified data via a sketchy wifi connection in a Barnes & Noble
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Putin’s hidden Hybrid War Is Designed To Break Europe’s Heart Simon Tisdall
Nato planners have always worried about the Storskog border crossing in Finnmark, where Arctic Norway comes face to face with Russia. In Soviet times, the 195-km frontier was a potential flashpoint. The Red Banner Northern Fleet’s nucleararmed submar
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Opinion
POOJA BHATIA Haiti’s disaster was caused by intervention Page 47 → ■
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Xi’s Vision Of Greater Isolation Will Make His Country Poorer Rana Mitter
In August, there was an unexpected stir in China about a scholarly article. The piece, published in a respected but specialist journal, argued that during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) and Qing dynasty (1644-1911), China had been a country relatively
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Foreign Intervention Has Hollowed Out The State And Led To Disaster Pooja Bhatia
What comes first in Haiti: disaster or foreign intervention? The conventional, eg first world, wisdom has it that disaster comes first. The underlying assumption is that Haitians cannot manage their own affairs. The government is corrupt or ineffecti
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The Truth Behind the Cop27 masquerade
No one knows what happened to the lost climate letter. All that is known is this: Alaa Abd El-Fattah, one of Egypt’s most high-profile political prisoners, wrote it while on a hunger strike in his Cairo prison cell last month. It was, he explained la
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Tigray’s Civilians Are In Grave Peril As A Forgotten War Rages In Ethiopia
Millions displaced. Brutal attacks on civilians. A soaring death toll. Deliberate attacks on infrastructure. And little hope of a negotiated exit. Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region is enduring probably the most brutal and deadly war being waged in th
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Confessions of A Rock Star
DRUMMER SEEKS MUSICIANS TO FORM BAND.” How casually our destiny arrives. Quiteafew wannabes had responded to Larry Mullen’s invitation on the school noticeboard, and now, classes out for the day, we were all packed in the oven that was Larry’s kitche
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Letters
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Reviews
Barbican, London How to adapt an iconic film made by the creative giants at Studio Ghibli, directed by the genius Hayao Miyazaki and considered an unsurpassed feat of fantasy animation? And do so without getting egg on your face? Just like this, it w
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The Mystery Of Marissa Marcel
Every now and then you play a video game that you just cannot stop thinking about. Candy Crush might leave colourful imprints on the back of your eyelids. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild may creep into your dreams. And then, very occasionally
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Growing The Pie
Progress in economic thought comes in three stages: first they laugh at you, then they fight you, then they ask you to write a quirky book explaining your ideas to a mass audience. Ha-Joon Chang has been working hard at providing an alternative to ne
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Il Duce’s daughter
As well as writing about trailblazing women – Freya Stark, Iris Origo, Martha Gellhorn – Caroline Moorehead has also focused on pacifists, refugees and deportees. Her books are scholarly and readable because she always seems able to find stories that
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Fairground Follies
The land of the short story is a brutal land, a land very similar, in its strictness, to the land of the joke.” George Saunders was writing about the unforgiving nature of the short form, but he might as well have been referring to the worlds in whic
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Books Of The Month
By Holly Sterling At their ballet lesson, little Thomas and his friends plié and sauté, twirl and thump – until it’s time to choose costumes for their big show. A candy-sweet, inclusive picture book capturing the magic of dancing and performance for
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Come Home To A Hot Dinner And Save Money With A Slow Cooker
I’ve just got a slow cooker. What good, flavourful dishes should I make in it? Pete, Horsham, England, UK Put aside its cumbersome appearance and you’ll be hard pushed to deny the allure of the slow cooker: add your ingredients in the morning and, wi
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My Band Is Making A Video. I Have To Play A Deluded Loser
Two years ago the band I’m in recorded a charity Christmas single, and I had an idea for a video. What started with me emailing a rough outline ended with me sitting on a toilet dressed as Santa while young people filmed me. After that day I decided
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№ 192 Tomato And Tofu Stir-fry With Sesame Rice
Prep 10 min Cook 30 min Serves 2 200g jasmine rice1 tbsp sesame oil Fine sea salt Rapeseed oil6 spring onions, trimmed, white parts sliced and greens cut on an angle into 3cm lengths280g firm tofu, drained and roughly torn into pieces500g firm vine t
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Drumskinny
County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland Compared with the surrounding rushy fields that were hard-won from upland bog, the enclosure’s grass is a well-trimmed lawn. Gravel beds, added in the 1960s, complete the impression that Drumskinny stone circle, cai
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Diversions
Thomas Eaton 1 In 1841, which instrument debuted at an exhibition in Brussels? 2 Bella and Bertie stand on top of which building? 3 What story was inspired by Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s postnatal psychosis? 4 Antiqua vs Fraktur was a German dispute o

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