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Ecuador ‘civil war’ crisis deepens as 130 prison guards are held hostage by inmates across five jails with some tortured and shot while civilians take up arms to defend themselves with violence erupting on the streets

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More than 130 prison guards and other staff are being held hostage by inmates in at least five prisons around Ecuador, which is descending into civil war amid a horrific escalation in gang violence.

Twisted videos circulating on social media showed how masked thugs delighted in subjecting prison staff to extreme violence, including being shot and hanging.

Terrified citizens meanwhile are resorting to taking up arms in an attempt to defend themselves, according to various reports on social media, as

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POLITICO Europe’s most-read stories of 2023 – POLITICO

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Well, here we are folks, at the end of another turbulent year.

When we put this list together at the end of 2022, its contents largely covered something many of us thought we would not see again in our lifetime: a major war in Europe. Now, we are grappling with two wars in our immediate neighborhood, as the slaughter drags on in Ukraine, and conflict rages between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

In Ukraine, the long-awaited counteroffensive against Russia, which

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Migration is derailing leaders from Biden to Macron. Who’s next? – POLITICO

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BRUSSELS — Western leaders are grappling with how to handle two era-defining wars in the Middle East and in Ukraine. But there’s another issue, one far closer to home, that’s derailing governments in Europe and America: migration. 

In recent days, U.S. President Joe Biden, his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak all hit trouble amid intense domestic pressure to tackle immigration; all three emerged weakened

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The Real Cause Of The Childhood ‘Mental Health Crisis’

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Around a century ago, the Spanish Flu killed 700,000 people in this country. In terms of casualty count, that pandemic was deadlier than both World Wars, plus the wars in Vietnam and Korea, combined. The average life expectancy in this country dropped by 12 years virtually overnight. Many of the dead were young people.

And yet, as the pandemic subsided, according to historians who have extensively documented this whole episode, life returned to normal in just a couple of years.

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Hawaii school students sue transport department over pollution crisis and claim ‘rising tides are washing up ancestors’ BONES’ – months after Montana youths won landmark climate change trial

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Fourteen Hawaiian school students are suing the transport department for infringing on their right to grow up in a healthy environment by polluting it with greenhouse gases. 

Ranging in age from 10 to 19, the plaintiffs claim they have been ‘seriously injured’ due to the government violating constitutional pledges to decarbonize the transport sector by 2045. 

Their complaint says global warming is threatening age-old agricultural industries in Hawaii, while rising sea levels are projected to wipe out entire communities within

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Can Mandated Nurse-to-Patient Ratios Fix Hospitals’ Staffing Crisis?

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A woman with dementia arrived at Montefiore Medical Center’s intensive care unit in near-psychosis. Frantic and extremely cold, she was swarmed by doctors and nurses. They drew blood. They ran tests. They delivered emergency medication. When her vital signs and tests confirmed that her condition was stable, they rushed off to the next emergency.

Her nurse, Benny Mathew, was the last to leave. He recalled the woman grabbing onto his hand and saying, “I feel like I’m gonna die now. … Read more

Germany chokes on its own austerity medicine – POLITICO

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BERLIN — Germans gave the world schadenfreude for a reason. And southern Europe couldn’t be more pleased.

For countries that spent years on the receiving end of Europe’s German-inspired fiscal Inquisition, there’s no sweeter sight than to see Germany splayed on the high altar of Teutonic parsimony. 

The irony is that Germany put itself there on purpose and has no clue how it will find redemption.

Last week’s jaw-dropping

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Who’s who at COP28 – POLITICO

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This article is part of the Road to COP special report, presented by SQM.

The annual U.N. climate summit that starts November 30 has become one of the biggest diplomatic setpieces in the global political calendar. 

Organizers are expecting more than 70,000 people to descend upon Dubai’s Expo City: activists, billionaires, presidents, Indigenous leaders, business executives, monarchs and diplomats from every corner of the world. A few will hold sway over the outcome of the talks. Some will make noise

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A global call for policy action – POLITICO

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*Speak Up for COPD is supported by a coalition of partners across industry and the non-profit sector to raise awareness and understanding of COPD amongst policymakers and healthcare decision makers by amplifying the voices of patients, the COPD community and the public. All partners contribute time and expertise to the coalition actitivies. Our one critical goal is to establish COPD as a public health priority.

Coalition partners: Global Allergy & Airways Patient Platform (GAAPP), International Federation of Ageing (IFA),

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Suella Braverman is the most hated woman in British politics — and far nicer than you think – POLITICO

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She’s the most divisive British politician of the age; the scourge of left-wing intelligencia whose fire and brimstone rhetoric on immigration makes even those within her own party flinch.

Suella Braverman’s suggestion this week that charities be banned from giving tents to the homeless was only the latest radical policy proposal from the U.K. Home Secretary to receive widespread liberal criticism — with even Tory Cabinet colleagues distancing themselves from her remarks.

For the second time in recent months, a

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