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The British government wants to hand police unprecedented powers to handle protesters. Human rights activists say it’s an affront to democracy

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The British government wants to hand new powers to police that would allow officers to take stronger action against people engaging in peaceful, political protest.  Human rights activists have accused the government of trying to suppress freedom of speech, while opposition politicians claim that Downing Street is simply trying to distract from the myriad of things going wrong in the United Kingdom at the moment.  The government issued a statement on Sunday night, in which it said it would table amendments to legislation that is already passing through Parliament called the Public Order Bill. This has already been the subject of huge controversy due to the extent to which it curbs protest.  Specifically, the bill nakedly targets groups such as Black Lives Matter, Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil, all of which have used disruptive tactics in their protests against the government.  The bill would criminalize long-standing protest tactics such as locking on (where ...

Russian missile strike on apartment building in Dnipro kills 35 people, Ukraine officials say

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The death toll from a Russian missile strike on an apartment block in Dnipro rose to 35, Ukrainian officials said on Monday, after missiles and explosions were heard across the country. Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration, said 39 people, including 14 children, had been rescued so far and up to 35 people could still be under the rubble. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had previously said that “dozens” of people, including a 3-year-old girl, were rescued from the building even though most of the floors were “smashed” in the strike. According to the president, 72 apartments were destroyed and more than 230 apartments were damaged in Saturday’s strikes. The Ukrainian Air Force said the Russian missile fired at the apartment block in Dnipro was a Kh-22 – the same type that hit a busy shopping mall in central Ukraine last summer. Yurii Ihnat, spokesman for the Ukrainian air force, said the Kh-22 “was fired from a Tu-22M3 long-range bomber...

2 Earth-size worlds revealed beyond our solar system

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There are more than 5,000 known worlds beyond our solar system. Since the 1990s, astronomers have used ground and space-based telescopes to search for signs of planets beyond our tiny corner of the universe. Exoplanets are notoriously difficult to directly image because they’re so far away from Earth. But scientists know the signs, looking for wobbles of stars as orbiting planets use their gravitational pull, or dips in starlight as planets pass in front of their stellar hosts. It’s highly likely that there are hundreds of billions more exoplanets just waiting to be discovered. Part of the excitement around the James Webb Space Telescope is its ability to peer inside the atmospheres of potentially habitable planets and discover new worlds. This week, the space observatory certainly delivered. Other worlds The Webb telescope confirmed the existence of an exoplanet for the first time since the space observatory launched in December 2021. The world, known as LHS 475 b, is almost exactly t...

Amnesty International asks Cristiano Ronaldo to ‘draw attention to human rights issues’ in Saudi Arabia

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Amnesty International said Wednesday that soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo should highlight human rights issues in Saudi Arabia during his time playing at Al Nassr. A press release from the human rights watchdog quotes Dana Ahmed, its Middle East researcher, saying, “Al-Nassr’s signing of Cristiano Ronaldo fits into a wider pattern of sportswashing in Saudi Arabia. “Sportswashing” is the phenomenon of burnishing one’s reputation through sport. “It is highly likely that the Saudi authorities will promote Ronaldo’s presence in the country as a means of distracting from the country’s appalling human rights record,” added Ahmed. “Cristiano Ronaldo should not allow his fame and celebrity status to become a tool of Saudi’s sportswashing. He should use his time at Al-Nassr to speak out about the myriad human rights issues in the country.” The release argues that the Saudi state executes people without fair trial and does not allow for freedom of expression or association. Ronaldo will earn ...

ภาวะเศรษฐกิจถดถอยทั่วโลกกำลังจะเกิดขึ้นในปี 2566 หรือไม่?.

    เศรษฐกิจโลกจะชะลอตัวในปีใหม่หรือไม่? คณะผู้เชี่ยวชาญเสนอข้อมูลเชิงลึกเกี่ยวกับสิ่งที่คาดหวัง หากมีคำหนึ่งคำที่ได้รับความสนใจจากทุกคนในปี 2565 นั่นก็คืออัตราเงินเฟ้อ เป็นความกังวลหลักสำหรับผู้คนหลายล้านคนทั่วโลก และจะยังคงเป็นเช่นนี้ต่อไปในปี 2566 สิ้นสุดรายการ สินค้าและบริการในชีวิตประจำวันมีราคาแพงขึ้นทั่วโลก ค่าใช้จ่ายที่เพิ่มสูงขึ้นทำให้หลายคนใช้ชีวิตลำบากมากขึ้น ซึ่งต้องลำบากในการซื้อของชำ จ่ายบิล และเติมน้ำมันเต็มถังที่สถานีบริการน้ำมัน อัตราเงินเฟ้อทั่วโลกคาดว่าจะลดลงจาก 8.8 เปอร์เซ็นต์ในปี 2565 เป็น 6.5 เปอร์เซ็นต์ในปี 2566 ในขณะที่ผลผลิตของโลกจะชะลอตัวลงเหลือ 2.7 เปอร์เซ็นต์ในปีใหม่ การนับต้นทุนเป็นการดูว่าเศรษฐกิจโลกคาดหวังอะไรในปี 2566 Ṣ̄ers̄ʹṭ̄hkic lok ca chalx tạw nı pī h̄ım̀ h̄rụ̄x mị̀? Khṇa p̄hū̂cheī̀ywchāỵ s̄enx k̄ĥxmūl cheing lụk keī̀yw kạb s̄ìng thī̀ khād h̄wạng VISIT   VISIT   VISIT   VISIT   VISIT   VISIT   VISIT   VISIT   VISIT   VISIT   VISIT   VISIT   VISIT   VISIT   VISIT   VI...