https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/02/sao-paolo-fire-building-collapse-squatting-housing-crisis It took Adriana dos Santos and her six children 20 minutes to scramble to safety, feeling their way down seven dark flights of stairs as the flames spread around them. An hour later, the 24-story building where they’d been living in downtown São Paulo collapsed, as firefighters attempted to rescue a man who’d reportedly re-entered the building to save… Read more »
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/03/cuentalo-latin-american-women-rally-around-sexual-violence-hashtag It began as a call to arms to women in Spain after last week’s incendiary acquittal of five men on rape charges in Pamplona. “We must tell of the aggressions, the violations, compañeras,” the journalist Cristina Fallarás tweeted, urging her followers to speak out over sexual violence using the hashtag #Cuéntalo. But across the Atlantic the message was also… Read more »
From the perspective of the White House, the United States had negotiated a preliminary deal with Brazil, as well as Argentina and Australia, to exempt the countries from punitive steel and aluminum tariffs. From the perspective of Brazil, it was issued an ultimatum. Brazil accused the Trump administration on Wednesday of breaking off negotiations over the tariffs last week and… Read more »
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/30/politics/tariff-deadline-delay/index.html — President Donald Trump on Monday approved another month of relief from steel and aluminum taris for key allies, including the European Union, Canada and Mexico. Facing a midnight deadline to prolong the exemptions or allow imports of steel and aluminum from those countries to be taxed at 25% and 10%, respectively, Trump pushed the deadline another month —… Read more »
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/29/americas/migrant-caravan-us-border-crossing/index.html Over the past two weeks, dozens of Central American migrants have traveled to the US-Mexico Border and are now being denied access. These families left their homes and lives in Central America, most come from Tijuana, in order to escape persecution and secure safety for their loved ones. The migrants continue to stand outside the border entry until all… Read more »
France 24 | April 23, 2018 Scientists in Britain and the United States say they have engineered a plastic-eating enzyme that could help in the future fight against pollution. The enzyme is able to digest polyethylene terephthalate, or PET – a form of plastic patented in the 1940s and now used in millions of tonnes of plastic bottles. PET plastics… Read more »
