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People displaced by climate crisis to testify in first-of-its-kind hearing in US
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will hear how climate is driving forced migration across the Americas
 People displaced by climate crisis to testify … Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will hear how climate is driving forced migration across the Americas.
[2/2] … prohibition usually causes. However, a government that can succeed in blocking vapes being shipped in could succeed in blocking mifepristone being shipped in.
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‘No intention of stopping’: New Zealand online vape seller vows to ignore Australia’s new import ban
Health department rejects seller’s taunt ‘new rules don’t apply to us’ and points to ‘escalated enforcement action as appropriate’
 Australia is trying to crack down on the importation of vapes. A foreign seller that ships to Australia is defying the restriction. Prohibition of addictive dangerous drugs tends to cause various forms of harm. Which can be worse than the harm caused by the drug itself. However, this prohibition does not criminalize users, so maybe it will avoid the worst harms that …
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Wisconsin’s extreme gerrymandering era ends as new maps come into force
Although state is one most competitive in US, Republicans had been guaranteed control of legislature for over a decade
 Wisconsin's extreme gerrymandering era ends as new maps come into force.
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Hundreds jailed for coming to UK in small boats to claim asylum, says report
Study says prosecutions include children and victims of trafficking and torture
 The UK has jailed hundreds of refugees for traveling to the UK without prior approval, including victims of trafficking and torture. Their aim was to ask for asylum. This is part of a global tendency for countries to make it effectively impossible for people without plenty of money to ask for asylum there.
[2/2] … about such things.
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112 dead in chaotic scenes as Israeli troops open fire near aid trucks, say Gaza officials
Israeli military denies shooting into large crowds of hungry people and says most were killed in crush or run over trying to escape
 http://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces_use_palestinian_child_as_human_shield_in_gaza Israeli army firing at a crowd of hungry Palestinians near some aid trucks caused a total of 400 casualties. Israel says its soldiers never shot at the crowd, but witnesses there say people were shot. The Israeli army has a decades-long tradition of lying …
[2/2] … they may make various medical problems more likely, but we don't have any firm knowledge about this.
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Microplastics found in every human placenta tested in study
Scientists express concern over health impacts, with another study finding particles in arteries
 A study of human placentas found microplastics in each one. I have seen a series of results about the presence of microplastics in various places and various kinds of organisms. All of these address one side of the crucial question: are we exposed to microplastics? Whether this is a real problem depends on the other side: how dangerous are they? We speculate that …
[2/2] … to get out of Putin's power. Let's give them a chance and encourage them to take it.