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Oregon wildfire causes miles-high ‘fire clouds’ as flames grow
Jul 17, 2021 03:27Smoke and heat from a huge wildfire in south-eastern Oregon are creating giant “fire clouds” over the blaze.
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Western US and Canada brace for another heatwave as wildfires spread
Jul 17, 2021 03:13The raging wildfires are stoked by a wave of exceptional temperatures across the US' western region combined with a prolonged drought that has desiccated vegetation. The US' west has grown warmer and drier in recent decades as a result of the climate crisis, accelerating the fires and making the job of controlling them more difficult.
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US must get its own house in order, quit meddling in other nations’ affairs
Jul 17, 2021 03:10Both Haiti and Cuba, for decades, have been subjected to actions and policies from the United States, and others, both overt and covert, which have undermined self-determination and economic independence at every conceivable juncture.
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‘Have you no shame?’ Biden frames voting rights as a moral reckoning
Jul 16, 2021 15:19President Biden said on Tuesday (13 Jul 2021) that the fight against restrictive voting laws was the “most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War” and called Donald J. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election “a big lie.”
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UN, EU and World Bank back siege on Gaza
Jul 16, 2021 09:34A new study of Gaza’s reconstruction needs, published by the UN, EU and World Bank, demonstrates anew the harmful role played by these institutions in Palestine.
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'Time for incrementalism is over,' says climate movement as extreme weather hits US
Jul 16, 2021 09:15With hundreds of thousands of acres burning across swaths of the U.S. West that have already endured record-breaking heat this summer—and mounting concerns about the GOP and centrist Democrats watering down federal infrastructure legislation—the climate movement recently reiterated demands for ambitious government action and investment.
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American tax dollars financing Israeli regime tourist park atop historic Palestinian neighborhood
Jul 15, 2021 16:02At least 1,500 Palestinian residents in Silwan, al-Quds are at risk of ethnic cleansing in favor of a Jewish tourist park to be established on the site of their historic neighborhood.
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More than 60 wildfires rage across US west – including blaze bigger than Portland
Jul 15, 2021 16:00More than 60 wildfires were burning across at least 10 states in the parched American west on Tuesday (13 July) , with the largest, in Oregon, consuming an area nearly twice the size of Portland.
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Suspected assassins of Haitian president trained by US, linked to pro-coup oligarchy
Jul 15, 2021 15:57As the investigation into Moïse’s murder unfolds, the U.S. is laying the groundwork to deploy troops into Haiti for the fourth time in 106 years, at the request of a figure it has spent decades grooming.
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COVID outbreak among vaccinated Vegas hospital workers underscores Delta risks
Jul 15, 2021 03:45Coronavirus cases are rising in several Americans states, like Nevada, where vaccinations lag and the Delta variant is spreading. It now accounts for half of U.S. cases.