Time. It was a sunny morning in early December last year when 23-year-old Khadija set herself on fire. She kissed her three-month old son Mohammed goodbye and said a short prayer. “Please God, stop this suffering,” she pleaded in the sun-soaked courtyard of her home in Herat, Afghanistan as she poured kerosene from a copper lamp over her small frame. She then struck a match. The last thing she heard were birds chirping. The next morning, she realized her prayer had gone unanswered. Khadija, who asked TIME not to publish her last name or her family’s, woke up at Herat Hospital in Afghanistan’s only burn unit, her body blanketed in third-degree burns and bandages. “I am not alive, but I am not dead,” Khadija told me later that week, crying and gripping the hands of her sister, Aisha. “Women never have any choices,” Khadija said last December in the hospital, as tears streamed down her face, a barely recognizable charred patchwork of fresh scars.
Hoshang Hashimi—AFP/Getty Images. Eu.usatoday. My first-year Bucknell University students were nervous about their assignment: Interview someone in your family about climate change. Only one rule: It had to be someone 50 or older. It had to be intergenerational. If I could, I’d give everyone the same homework assignment this holiday season. Yes, we need national and international action to solve the climate dilemmas we face. That’s what the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24), which wrapped up Sunday, has been all about. But each of us also needs to talk about the issues with our family and friends, because those conversations are what will lead to concrete changes in our daily lives, specific next steps for making our lives more sustainable and eventually political action to ensure a more sustainable country.
The class was ready for the conversation. The conversation Americans aren't having Read more commentary: Gov. So how did it go? Everyday actions add up. In the United States, His Problem Wasn’t the Taliban. It Was Everything Else. Theresa May in last-ditch bid to save Brexit deal despite growing mutiny | Politics. Theresa May is set to launch a last-ditch bid to win over mutinous Tory MPs before deciding whether to proceed with a vote on her Brexit deal on Tuesday, as one of her closest cabinet allies issued a stark warning that the UK should learn from Northern Ireland about “the damage that division can do”. With less than 48 hours to go before May faces the reckoning of her MPs, few of the 100-plus rebels who have vowed to vote against her deal showed any sign of altering their positions.
The prime minister is under intense pressure from aides and senior ministers to considering pulling the vote on Tuesday, a move Downing Street has emphatically denied will happen, though a final decision is unlikely to be made until the 11th hour. Writing for the Guardian, the Northern Ireland secretary, Karen Bradley, said the whole UK could be scarred by divisions over Brexit, similar to the historic divides that have riven Northern Ireland, if no compromise was found. “It has always weighed heavily with me. Brussels protests: Police use tear gas on anti-immigration demonstrators outside EU. Police used tear gas and water cannons on right-wing and far-right demonstrators who gathered outside EU headquarters in Brussels to protest against Belgium’s adoption of a global immigration pact.
About 5,000 people assembled for the anti-immigration rally on Sunday which local authorities had initially banned over fears of violence. Belgium’s high court overturned the ban, citing the right to peaceful protest. Police in Brussels say some of the protesters became violent when they were asked to disperse. Join Indpendent Minds For exclusive articles, events and an advertising-free read for just £5.99 €6.99 $9.99 a month Get the best of The Independent With an Independent Minds subscription for just £5.99 €6.99 $9.99 a month Without the ads – for just £5.99 €6.99 $9.99 a month The Flemish nationalist party Vlaams Belang and several far-right groups had organised the “March Against Marrakesh” to denounce the UN’s Global Compact on Migration. Additional reporting by Associated Press. Why did a little Guatemalan girl die after crossing the US border?
After a final stretch on foot along a dirt road through high desert, a father and his young daughter crossed into the United States at the end of a 2,000-mile journey through Mexico. It was after dark and they were part of a group of 163 people, apparently including dozens of unaccompanied children, who had made it to Antelope Wells, New Mexico, considered the most remote spot along America’s entire southern border. Just over 27 hours later, despite desperate efforts to save her, seven-year-old Jakelin Amei Rosmery Caal Maquin was dead. And while the results of an autopsy may not be known for some days, the circumstances of her sorrowful death in the custody of the US border patrol agency are already being seized upon as evidence both for and against the Trump administration’s hardline approach to immigration.
Donald Trump’s supporters lay blame with a parent who would put their child’s safety at risk on a perilous journey. At 4am the bus returned for the second group. Second Guatemalan child dies after being detained by US border agents. An eight-year-old Guatemalan boy died in US government custody late on Christmas Eve, immigration authorities said, marking the second death of an immigrant child this month after being detained at the border between Mexico and the United States. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said that the boy died in hospital shortly before midnight on Monday, having originally indicated he died just after midnight. The boy showed “signs of potential illness” on Monday and was taken with his father to Gerald Champion regional medical center in Alamogordo, New Mexico, the agency said. Hospital staff diagnosed the child “with a common cold, and when evaluated for release, hospital staff found a fever”, the statement added.
Staff at the hospital held the boy for an additional 90 minutes, before releasing him in the afternoon with prescriptions for amoxicillin and ibuprofen. CBP promised “an independent and thorough review of the circumstances”. Brexit: US ambassador to UK Johnson warns on trade deal. Image copyright Getty Images Donald Trump's offer of a "quick, massive, bilateral trade deal" will not be possible if Theresa May's EU withdrawal agreement is approved, the US ambassador to the UK has warned. President Trump had previously said her Brexit proposal sounded like a "great deal for the EU".
Woody Johnson told the BBC the UK was "in need of leadership" over Brexit. A Downing Street spokeswoman said Mr Johnson recently said the UK was "the perfect trading partner for the US". Mr Johnson told Radio 4's Today programme there was still hope for a UK-US trade deal. "What I'm focusing on here is something the president has also said - that is looking forward to, and hoping, that the environment will lead to the ability for the US to do a quick, very massive bilateral trade deal," he said. He added it could be "the precursor of future trade deals with other countries around the world for Great Britain that will really take you way, way into an exciting future". Please upgrade your browser. Rashida Tlaib’s Expletive-Laden Cry to Impeach Trump Upends Democrats’ Talking Points.
Brexit: Dutch MP makes a 'Love Actually' style appeal to the UK over Brexit and it's perfect. A Dutch MP has made an appeal to the UK not to leave the European Union, with a recreation of one of the classic Christmas film Love Actually's most famous scenes. Kees Verhoeven, a Democrats 66 member in the House of Representatives in the Netherlands, shared a video on his Twitter account urging the UK to either back Theresa May's much maligned Brexit deal, or just stay in the EU and forget about Brexit all together.
In the spoof video, he pretends to arrive at Theresa May's front door, and delivers a message using a series of cue cards. The first uses the classic line: Say it's carol singers... Then, he continues with his message: With any luck by next year we will have a good deal Brexit. Cue a card full of Daily Mail headlines. But we love you! Ah, if only. More: We got a Remain-voting drag queen to interview their Leave-voting dad about Brexit because it's 2018 and why not More: Marvel: The latest Avengers comic has made a reference to Brexit and it is perfect. Alexa's advice to 'kill your foster parents' fuels concern over Amazon Echo. An Amazon customer got a grim message last year from Alexa, the virtual assistant in the company’s smart speaker device: “Kill your foster parents.”
The user who heard the message from his Echo device wrote a harsh review on Amazon’s website, Reuters reported - calling Alexa’s utterance “a whole new level of creepy”. An investigation found the bot had quoted from the social media site Reddit, known for harsh and sometimes abusive messages, people familiar with the investigation told Reuters. The odd command is one of many hiccups that have happened as Amazon tries to train its machine to act something like a human, engaging in casual conversations in response to its owner’s questions or comments. The research is helping Alexa mimic human banter and talk about almost anything she finds on the internet. But making sure she keeps it clean and inoffensive has been a challenge. Alexa gets its conversational skills through machine learning, the most popular form of artificial intelligence. Exclusion et numérique : 56% des Français se sentent démunis quand ils font une démarche sur Internet.
Après la publication de l'enquête Harris Interactive pour la Fédération Française des Télécoms cette semaine, le Digital Society Forum s'est intéressé plus particulièrement à ceux pour qui le numérique reste un obstacle. Beaucoup de Français se sentent encore démunis. REECOUTEZ LA VIE CONNECTEE (samedi 17 novembre 2018) 2 min L'exclusion numérique Par Christine Siméone Il faut savoir que 16% des Français utilisent internet moins d'une fois par semaine et que 10 millions de Français sont encore en difficulté avec les usages. À noter que 900 000 jeunes sont à la dérive et ont besoin d'entrer dans le monde numérique.
Selon un sondage BVA pour le Digital Society Forum il semble que le numérique est perçu comme potentiellement exclusif par une part significative de répondants (39% pensent que cela renforce les inégalités). Le sentiment d’exclusion numérique est fréquent. Faire face à une dématérialisation croissante Les nouveaux contours de l'exclusion numérique. Numérique : nos députés sont-ils si nuls ? - Le Point. Tribune-crise-des-gilets-jaunes-le-numerique-est-a-la-fois-la-cause-et-la-solution. La crise des gilets jaunes est née sur les réseaux sociaux, la réponse passera également par eux. Ce mouvement y a été lancé à l’origine pour dénoncer la hausse des taxes sur le carburant, avant de développer des revendications plus larges. Pour sortir de l’impasse et désamorcer les prochains conflits, les outils numériques doivent être mis au service d’une participation citoyenne et d’une démocratie augmentée. Une démocratie participative ou augmentée Internet est un instrument, inédit dans l’histoire de l’humanité, permettant de communiquer publiquement.
C’est « le sacre de l’amateur », plein de promesses pour la circulation de l’information, mais notre vielle démocratie, héritée des Lumières est naturellement porté à en redouter les dérives. Malheureusement cette définition a longtemps été moquée ou dévoyée en France où les campagnes participatives sont toujours au service d’un(e) seul(e) candidat(e). La technologie n’est ni bonne ni mauvaise, elle n’est pas neutre non plus. Brexit: Cabinet backs draft agreement. Media playback is unsupported on your device The cabinet has backed a draft withdrawal agreement between the UK and the EU, Theresa May has said. The prime minister was speaking after what she said was a "long, detailed and impassioned debate" in a five-hour cabinet meeting.
She said it was a "decisive step" in the progress of Brexit, and would allow the agreement to be finalised. The EU's chief negotiator said it was in both sides' interests. But leading Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg described it as a "rotten deal". BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the cabinet was "certainly not unanimous", with nine ministers speaking out against the deal. In her statement outside Downing Street, Mrs May said the agreed package was "the result of thousands of hours of hard negotiation with EU officials".
She believed that "this decisive choice is in the best interests of the entire UK", adding: "When you strip away the detail, the choice before us is clear. What's in it? Please upgrade your browser. Your guide to 2018 midterm elections. The votes on 6 November will give US voters their first chance to pass judgment on Donald Trump since he took the White House.
Here’s what you need to know about what’s at stake US midterms 2018: full live results The key question in these elections is: will Republicans be able to keep control of both chambers of Congress? Just 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate, and all of the 435 seats in the lower House of Representatives are up for grabs.
To take control of the legislative agenda and block Trump's ability to implement his programs, the Democratic party needs to control both houses. With a Senate majority, the Democrats would be able to block cabinet and supreme court appointments. Can the Republicans keep control of the Senate? California has approximately 68 times the population of Wyoming ... The Senate electoral system is also weighed against the Democrats. Current control of Senate seats up in 2018 Democrat Republican Independent Not electing this year 218 needed for a majority.
Time. Updated: November 25, 2018 2:45 PM ET In the aftermath of a Thanksgiving night shooting in an Alabama mall, local police have admitted to fatally targeting the wrong man, leaving a distraught family and at least one shooter still on the loose. Police shot and killed 21-year-old Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. on Thursday, following a shooting in the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, Ala. The shooting left two people, including a 12-year-old girl, injured. In its original statement, the Hoover Police Department identified Bradford as the shooter who had been involved in a physical altercation before opening fire. After examining evidence and interviewing witnesses, police now say that Bradford may not have shot the two youths, though they still believe he could have been part of the dispute which led to the shooting. “New evidence now suggests that while Mr. “This information indicates that there is at least one gunman still at-large,” the statement says. A billion people without electricity ‘missing out on pledged climate funds’ | Global development.
The world’s 1 billion people who live without electricity are not benefiting from climate change money promised by governments to help them develop. In theory, there has never been a better time for developing countries to install renewable energy such as solar or wind to combat climate change. The UN’s Green Climate Fund (GCF), along with the World Bank and regional development banks, have all said they intend to significantly increase their green energy financing, offering developing countries cheap loans and grants. Many donor countries like Britain and Japan have also pledged to help poorer nations switch to clean energy. But as diplomats and organisations from 190 countries will hear this week at the UN climate summit in Katowice, Poland, the reality is that the public money available is not nearly enough to meet their needs.
Existing funds will not provide clean electricity for people who live beyond grids. “We now have 93 projects, worth $4.6bn. . … we have a small favour to ask. Time. Ireland: Fury Follows Lawyer's Claim a Thong Signals Consent. Theresa May heads to Brussels bolstered by failure of Brexiter revolt | Politics. Outcry over 'saviour complex' fuelling exploitation of Kenyan children | Global development. - The Washington Post. - The Washington Post. La certitude est-elle une garantie de vérité ?
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