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      Myanmar airstrike on detention camp kills dozens, armed opposition group says

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 20 January, 2025

    Those killed in attack on camp for relatives of junta soldiers in Rakhine state were women and children, Arakan Army says

    A Myanmar junta airstrike has killed 28 people, including children, and wounded 25 at a temporary detention area in western Rakhine state, an ethnic minority armed group has said.

    The Arakan Army (AA) is engaged in a fierce fight with the military for control of Rakhine, where it has seized swaths of territory in the past year, all but cutting off the state capital Sittwe.

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      Trump is back! How do we prepare for life under a brutal regime of AI climate crypto madness?! | First Dog on the Moon

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 20 January, 2025

    At least we have TikTok back

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      Overhaul ‘unsustainable’ incapacity benefits system, Lords committee urges

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 20 January, 2025

    Peers call on Labour to carry out ‘fundamental review’ amid rising concerns over retention of Tory plans for £3bn in cuts

    Labour must carry out a root-and-branch overhaul of the UK’s incapacity benefits system if it is to rein in rising heath-related welfare spending, an influential cross-party Westminster committee has warned.

    The House of Lords economic affairs committee – whose members include two former Treasury permanent secretaries and a former chancellor – said major reform was needed to address the rising social and fiscal costs of disability benefits.

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      ‘I don’t trust them’: voters wary as Reform eyes possible Runcorn byelection

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 20 January, 2025

    Nigel Farage’s party starts early ground war as it hopes to overturn huge majority of Labour MP Mike Amesbury

    As Nigel Farage toured US television studios before the inauguration of President Donald Trump, his face was almost as unavoidable in a quiet Cheshire market town more than 3,000 miles from the White House.

    “He’s already got an office here, hasn’t he?” exclaimed Rob Hitchmough, 65, walking his cavalier King Charles spaniels, Oskar and Reyes, along Frodsham Main Street, where Reform UK had its campaign headquarters last year.

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      ‘Look, they’re getting skin!’: are we right to strive to save the world’s tiniest babies? – podcast

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 20 January, 2025

    Doctors are pushing the limits of science and human biology to save more extremely premature babies than ever before. But when so few survive, are we putting them through needless suffering? By Sophie McBain. Read by Chloe Pirrie

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      Moving pictures: comics and animation exhibition showcases stories of migration

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 20 January, 2025

    Graphic novelists, cartoonists and animators use testimonies of migrants to depict tales of survival and escape across the world in show at Soas Univeristy of London

    An award-winning graphic novelist who migrated to the UK from Tripoli, a Pulitzer prize finalist from the Philippines and a director who sought refuge in the UK from Iran are among the animators showcased in an exhibition at Soas University of London, which explores migration through animation and comics.

    The Stories of Migration exhibition marks 12 years of PositiveNegatives , a non-profit organisation based at Soas that transforms academic research into visual stories. It is showing a series of videos that tell the stories of migrants from countries including Yemen, Iraq and the Philippines.

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      Edmund White on lust, love and literature: ‘I’ve had sex with 3,000 men. A peer asked: “Why so few?”’

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 20 January, 2025

    The American author’s fifth memoir is all about sex - with alfresco frolics in London and encounters in a bullring among the tamer anecdotes. At 85, he explains why he thought the book would never be published

    ‘I think the French are best in bed, because they’re the most perverted,” the great American author Edmund White divulges on a videocall from his book-crammed apartment in Chelsea, New York. In France, he says: “All kinds of vices are allowed and encouraged. Although I’ve had wonderful sex with English people,” he adds, kindly.

    Is there any sex act at which he would draw the line? “Um, no,” says the 85-year-old, barely pausing to consider the question.

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      NFL playoffs: Bills edge Ravens in nail-biter to set up AFC title tilt with Chiefs

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 20 January, 2025

    Josh Allen rushed for two touchdowns, Buffalo’s defense forced three turnovers and the Bills advanced to the AFC championship game with a 27-25 win over the Baltimore Ravens on Sunday night.

    The Bills hung on when a wide-open Mark Andrews dropped a two-point conversion pass from Lamar Jackson, allowing the ball to bounce off his chest with 1:33 left. Jackson had connected with a sliding Isaiah Likely for a 24-yard touchdown on the previous play to give the Ravens a chance to tie.

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      Trump 2.0 – podcast

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 20 January, 2025

    As Donald Trump returns to the White House, Hugo Lowell and David Smith discuss what to expect from his first few weeks

    Donald Trump is heading back to the White House.

    Michael Safi speaks to the Guardian’s Washington DC bureau chief David Smith and senior political correspondent Hugo Lowell about what we should expect from “Trump World 2.0”, as Hugo puts it.

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