UK couple may have to evict Ukrainian refugees owing to planning rules pred 11 urami in 36 minutami Rosemary Duckett, 80, and her husband, Anthony, 88, say situation is ‘bureaucracy gone mad’A couple who the prime minister thanked for housing Ukrainian refugees have been told by their local council they may have to evict their current guest due to planning rules which the couple describe as “bureaucracy gone mad”.Rosemary Duckett, 80, a retired magistrate and former chair of her local YMCA, and her husband, Anthony, 88, have been providing accommodation in a room above their garage to Ukrainian refugees since 2022. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
‘Everything is gone’: Punjabi farmers suffer worst floods in three decades pred 12 urami in 36 minutami Flooding in northern India and Pakistan has destroyed homes – and hundreds of thousands of acres of cropsFor days, farmers in the Indian state of Punjab watched the pounding monsoon rains fall and the rivers rise with mounting apprehension. By Wednesday, many woke to find their fears realised as the worst floods in more than three decades ravaged their farms and decimated their livelihoods.Hundreds of thousands of acres of bright green rice paddies – due to be harvested imminently – as well as crops of cotton and sugar cane were left destroyed as they became fully submerged in more than five feet of muddy brown flood waters. The bodies of drowned cattle littered the ground. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Pope prepares to canonise London-born teenager nicknamed ‘God’s influencer’ pred 12 urami in 36 minutami Carlo Acutis, who died in 2006 and built websites to spread Catholic message, to become first millennial saintIn a see-through safe carved into a wall behind the altar of a chapel in northern Rome lies a collection of relics of Carlo Acutis. These include a splinter from his wooden bed, a fragment of a jumper and a piece of the sheet used to cover him after his death. Locks of his hair are on display in other churches in the Italian capital and beyond.Acutis, the London-born Italian who on Sunday will become the Catholic church’s first millennial saint, built websites to spread Catholic teaching, earning him the nickname “God’s Influencer” after his death, aged 15, from leukaemia. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Would Anyone Use a Chinese Stablecoin? pred 12 urami in 36 minutami A new law in Hong Kong could pave the way for digital currencies tied to China.(New York Times)
Samoa’s first female PM fails to win re-election after months of political infighting pred 12 urami in 46 minutami Fiame Naomi Mata’afa, known as the ‘Iron Lady of the Pacific’, likely to be replaced by leader of opposition Fast partySamoa’s first female leader, Fiame Naomi Mata’afa, has failed to win a majority in the Pacific nation’s elections this week, capping months of political infighting.Official results published by the electoral commission on Friday showed the opposition Fast party won 30 out of the 50 contested seats in parliament. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
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