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| | |  | Starving in Somalia | Hundreds Die as Drought, Famine Grip Horn of Africa To lose one child is a mother’s worst nightmare. Owliyo Hassan Salaad has already watched four of her children die this year — and 3-year-old Ali Osman, whom she carried 55 miles from her village to Mogadishu, is in critical condition in a malnutrition center in the capital. She left four more at home with her husband because they were too weak to make the journey. Similar scenes are playing out across Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya — and UNICEF warns that if the world continues to focus only on the war in Ukraine an “explosion of child deaths” will hit the region. (Source: AP) |
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|  | War of Attrition | Little Change in Sievierodonetsk, Azovstal POWs Taken to Russia British intelligence says Russia is continuing to launch assaults on the strategic eastern Ukrainian city — and that Ukrainian defenses continue to hold. While some have wondered whether Ukraine might be better off giving up on the “dead city,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, “Our heroes are not giving up positions in Sievierodonetsk.” Zelenskyy hopes “the day will come when the number of losses, even for Russia, will exceed the permissible limit.” In other ominous news, Russian state media reported that Ukrainian defenders captured at the Azovstal steel plant — last month’s version of Sievierodonetsk — have been moved to Russia. (Sources: NYT, The Guardian, BBC) |
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|  | Open Wounds | Uvalde Teacher Calls Police ‘Cowards’, McConaughey Begs for Gun Laws When shots broke out at Robb Elementary School, Arnulfo Reyes told his students to hide under tables and pretend to be asleep. After Reyes was shot he took his own advice and played dead. He heard police rushing into the school but couldn’t work out why it took them 70 minutes to storm the classroom. “There is no excuse for their actions and I will never forgive them,” said Reyes, who lost 11 students that day. Meanwhile, actor and Uvalde native Matthew McConaughey took the lectern in the White House briefing room to plead for laws encouraging “responsible gun ownership.” (Sources: BBC, NYT) |
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|  | Bleak Outlook | World Bank Slashes Global Growth Forecast The Global Economic Prospects report released yesterday warned that the combined impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine could result in “a protracted period of feeble growth and elevated inflation.” The global lender revised its 2022 growth forecast from 4.1% to 2.9% — and it said that global growth could fall as low as 2.1% this year and 1.5% in 2023. “The danger of stagflation is considerable today,” wrote World Bank President David Malpass in the report’s foreword. “Subdued growth will likely persist throughout the decade because of weak investment in most of the world.” (Sources: Reuters, WSJ) |
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|  | Briefly | Here are some things you should know about today: Dirty laundry. U.S. federal prosecutors have obtained documents showing that retired four-star Marine Gen. John Allen, who now heads up the Brookings Institution, secretly lobbied for Qatar — and lied about it. (Source: NYT) “Nothing to apologize for.” In her first major interview since leaving office, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has defended both the way she handled Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s attempt to join NATO. (Source: DW) I did it. Allison Fluke-Ekren, a 42-year-old mother and former teacher from Kansas, pleaded guilty to one charge of helping the Islamic State group plan an attack on an American college. (Source: CBS) |
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| | | Dead Dolphins | Scientists Warn of Massive Environmental Costs of Ukraine War Since the invasion began, “several thousand” dead dolphins have washed up on beaches in Ukraine, Turkey and Bulgaria. Burns, sound pollution and sonar interference from Russian ships are all thought to have played a role. Mines have also prevented, for the first time in 30 years, conservationists at the Tuzly Lagoons National Nature Park from digging channels to link the lagoons with the Black Sea. No water flow means no fish — which means no food for herons, egrets and avocets. These are just two examples. Fires and toxic pollution caused by modern explosives have already left lasting scars across Ukraine. (Sources: The Guardian, Independent) |
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| | | Dead Letters | Former Spanish Mailman Arrested for Not Delivering 20,000 Letters In 2013, after a year on the job, the post office decided not to review the contract of an unnamed Alicante postman citing “irregularities” on his delivery route. The precise nature of these irregularities came to light this year when the man sold his house and the new owner found bags and bags of unopened correspondence dated 2012 and 2013. The man, now 62, was arrested and accused of “infidelity in the safekeeping of documents.” The letters, meanwhile, have been returned to the post office — but they’ll have to wait for judicial clearance before they can be delivered. (Sources: The Guardian, El País) |
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| | | What Is a Healthy Forest? | California’s Indigenous People Have Lots to Teach Scientists Turns out they were right all along. A collaboration between scientists and Native American tribes has pieced together a 3000-year history of a large, fire-prone forest in California’s Klamath Mountains — and the results, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, make for interesting reading. Analysis of biomass records, Indigenous oral history and fire scar records shows that “Native burning practices, along with a natural lightning-based fire regime, promoted long-term stability of the forest structure and composition.” The arrival of Europeans, who viewed local burning practices as destructive, resulted in increased forest density — and higher likelihood of devastating wildfires. (Source: Nature) |
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| | | Rich People’s Problems | Pitt Claims Jolie ‘Sought to Inflict Harm’ With Vineyard Sale More money = bigger problems. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie clubbed together to buy Chateau Miraval, a wine estate in the south of France, for around $32 million in 2008, six years before they got married. The couple’s messy divorce was finalized three years ago, and in 2021 Jolie told Pitt she’d decided to sell her 40% stake in Miraval to a Luxembourg-based spirits manufacturer controlled by Russian oligarch Yuri Schefler. Pitt’s now suing Jolie for reneging on a mutual agreement not to sell their stake without the other’s permission. The lawsuit calls Schefler “a stranger with poisonous associations and intentions.” (Source: BBC) |
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| | | | | Money or Morals? | More Big Names Join Saudi-Backed Golf Tour Yesterday it was announced that Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Graeme McDowell, Sergio Garcia and Louis Oosthuizen will be among the players teeing up for the inaugural event of the Saudi-funded LIV Golf Invitational Series on Thursday. The PGA and European Tours have threatened to ban the players — no Ryder Cup for them! — and their public image will also suffer a blow. Asked about Saudi Arabia’s abominable human rights record, McDowell said, “If we tried to cure geopolitical situations in every country … that we play golf in, we wouldn’t play a lot of golf.” Mickelson reportedly signed a $200 million contract with LIV. (Sources: AP, Sporting News, Mirror) |
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