New Myanmar sanctions imposed as anti-coup activists plan action
US and allies target aviation fuel on second anniversary of coup amid growing concern over military’s use of airpower.
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California police kill double amputee who was fleeing: ‘Scared for his life’
Anthony Lowe’s family says they want to see Huntington Park police prosecuted: ‘I’m heartbroken and filled with rage’A southern California police department is facing national backlash after footage revealed that officers fatally shot a double amputee …
Florida man claims sheriff’s ‘Wheel of Fugitive’ video cost him his job
Internet video identified man as a fugitive four times even though he was either in jail or on probation at time of each airingDavid Gay says he lost his job and was left distressed after a Florida sheriff repeatedly accused him of being a fugitive in …
Massachusetts prisoners may get shorter sentences for organ donations
A new bill proposes that prisoners get at least two months off their sentences for donating bone marrow or organsPrisoners in Massachusetts may soon have the option to get their sentences reduced in exchange for donating their organs or bone marrow if …
Petr Pavel: Ukraine deserves to join Nato, says new Czech leader
Petr Pavel tells the BBC Ukraine is morally and practically ready to join Nato after the war is over.
Revealed: how world’s biggest fossil fuel firms ‘profited in Myanmar after coup’
Leaked tax records suggest subsidiaries of international gas field contractors continued to make millions after the coupIn the two years since a murderous junta launched a coup in Myanmar, some of the world’s biggest oil and gas service companies conti…
Planting more trees in cities could cut deaths from summer heat, says study
European research finds that increasing urban tree coverage to 30% can lower temperatures by 0.4CPlanting more trees could mean fewer people die from increasingly high summer temperatures in cities, a study suggests. Increasing the level of tree cover …
UK benefit changes have pushed people into dead-end, low-paid jobs, says IFS
Tougher rules have boosted employment but jobs offer scant career progression and contribute little to tax revenueTougher benefit rules have boosted employment in the UK in the past 25 years but only at the expense of trapping workers in dead-end jobs,…