Egypt's anti protest law: Legalising authoritarianism - News from Al Jazeera
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How the Egyptian regime used the law to crack down on opposition and isolate voices of dissent.
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Egypt's military generals have constantly employed repressive tools to instill fear among the population [Getty Images]
byAmr Hamzawy
Senior Associate, Middle East Programme, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Since the summer of 2013, following the military coup led by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the ruling regime in Egypt has managed to handcuff the public space, surround it with restrictions.
This has been in a stark contrast to the period before the coup when Egyptians, during the popular uprising that took place on January, 25, 2011, were encouraged to engage actively in managing the country's affairs through peaceful means and ballot boxes. This period benefited both civil society organisations and political parties.
Huge rise in hospital beds in England taken up by people with malnutrition | Society | The Guardian
‘Poverty is causing vulnerable people … to go hungry and undernourished,’ shadow health secretary says.
‘Poverty is causing vulnerable people … to go hungry and undernourished,’ shadow health secretary says. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
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Friday 25 November 2016 17.26 GMT Last modified on Friday 25 November 2016 22.00 GMT
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The number of hospital beds in England taken up by patients being treated for malnutrition has almost trebled over the last 10 years, in what charities say shows the “genuinely shocking” extent of hunger and poor diet.
Official figures reveal that people with malnutrition accounted for 184,528 hospital bed days last year, a huge rise on 65,048 in 2006-07. The sharp increase is adding to the pressures on hospitals, which are already struggling with record levels of overcrowding.
Critics have said the upward trend is a result of rising poverty, deep cutbacks in recent years to meals on wheels services for the elderly and inadequate social care support, especially for older people.
100 Women: Jeanette Winterson helps children rewrite Cinderella - BBC News
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100 Women: Jeanette Winterson helps children rewrite Cinderella
22 November 2016 Last updated at 02:50 GMT
UK author Jeanette Winterson has helped school children re-imagine the fairy tale Cinderella for a new generation.
As part of the BBC's 100 Women season, she visited a primary school in the Cotswolds to discuss ways in which Cinderella is sexist and then asked the children to come up with their own version.
Video journalists Kelvin Brown and Jack Slater, produced by Sarah Buckley.
Mexican pyramid has two more inside, scientists discover | World news | The Guardian
The Kukulkan pyramid has two more nested inside, archaeologists have discovered.
The Kukulkan pyramid has two more nested inside, archaeologists have discovered. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo
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Thursday 17 November 2016 00.52 GMT Last modified on Thursday 17 November 2016 01.13 GMT
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Experts have discovered a third structure within the Kukulkan pyramid in eastern Mexico, revealing that it was built like a “Russian nesting doll”, experts said on Wednesday.
A 10m tall pyramid was found within another 20m structure, which itself is enveloped by the 30m exterior visible at the Mayan archeological complex known as Chichen Itza in Yucatan state.
Reclaim the Streets occupy Camden High Street | Actipedia
PRACTITIONER:
RECLAIM THE STREETS
DATE:
MAY 14 1995
LOCATION:
LONDON ENGLAND
A collective resistance movement dedicated to reasserting communal ownership of common spaces, Reclaim the Streets staged its first action on Camden High Street in 1995, when activists closed the road to vehicle traffic to make way for a street party. Combining the tactics of non-violent direct action with 90's UK rave culture, organizers kept the location secret until the last moment to preempt police interception.
2016 'very likely' to be world's warmest year - BBC News
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2016 has seen high temperatures lead to devastating droughts in many parts
2016 looks poised to be the warmest year on record globally, according to preliminary data.
With data from just the first nine months, scientists are 90% certain that 2016 will pass the mark set by 2015.
Temperatures from January to September were 1.2C above pre-industrial levels, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
The body says temperatures should remain high enough for the rest of the year to break the previous record.
Climate change may be escalating so fast it could be 'game over', scientists warn | The Independent
It is a vision of a future so apocalyptic that it is hard to even imagine.
But, if leading scientists writing in one of the most respected academic journals are right, planet Earth could be on course for global warming of more than seven degrees Celsius within a lifetime.
And that, according to one of the world’s most renowned climatologists, could be “game over” – particularly given the imminent presence of climate change denier Donald Trump in the White House.
With the news that more than 540,000 people – more than 1 per cent of the population – now follow a vegan diet, 2016 has become the Year of the Vegan. But if you’re yet to be convinced, here are five compelling reasons to ditch animal products for good.
You don’t want the world to end
There’s nothing like beginning an article with a little light-hearted doom-mongering, but animal agriculture is wreaking havoc on our planet. It is a leading cause of climate change, habitat destruction and species extinction. A recent State of Nature report found that intensive farming has an "overwhelmingly negative" impact on nature, threatening more than half of UK species.
As if this wasn’t enough, we could soon be contending with widespread antibiotic resistance due to the use of the strongest antibiotics rising to record levels on European farms. Animal agriculture is leading us to the brink of a superbug epidemic which, according to the UK chief medical officer, poses a "bigger threat than terrorism" to human life.
Last week the UN General Assembly's Disarmament and Security Committee voted for negotiations to begin next year on a new international treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons, writes Rebecca Johnson, bypassing the stalled Non Proliferation Treaty. One immediate consequence is to make the UK's plans to replace its Trident nuclear missile system 'completely untenable'.
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