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‘Orbán has already condemned me’: Italian MEP on Hungary’s effort to jail her again

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 30 October, 2024

Ilaria Salis says government of Viktor Orbán has been ‘embarrassed’ by her election and parliamentary immunity

As the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, finished a speech to the European parliament, the Italian MEP Ilaria Salis rose from her seat and with about a dozen other leftwing colleagues belted out the anti-fascist anthem Bella Ciao.

Until May, Salis had been held in pre-trial detention in a Hungarian prison following her arrest on charges of assault in February last year at a counter-protest to a neo-Nazi rally in Budapest. She was then freed and allowed to return to Italy in June, after her election that month to the European parliament.

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Ukraine war briefing: Kyiv announces draft of 160,000 more troops

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 30 October, 2024

Russia claims control of Selydove, near Pokrovsk; spotlight on Moscow’s expanded use of torture since invasion. What we know on day 980

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Several people missing after torrential rain brings flash flooding to Spain

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 29 October, 2024

Flood waters push cars through streets as roads closed and high-speed train services cancelled

At least four people are missing after torrential rain caused flash floods in southern and eastern Spain , shutting roads and high-speed train connections.

Raging flood waters swept through the town of Letur in the eastern province of Albacete on Tuesday, pushing cars through the streets, images broadcast on Spanish television showed.

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EU events on curbing big tech ‘distorted’ by attenders with industry links

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 29 October, 2024

Campaigners say 21% of people at workshops did not disclose on their applications relationships with firms being discussed

More than one in five attendees at EU events on regulating big tech companies did not disclose links to the industry when applying to take part, according to transparency campaigners who say hidden networks are distorting public debate.

Researchers at three NGOs analysed nearly 4,000 registrations at European Commission workshops organised earlier this year to test companies’ compliance with the Digital Markets Act, a law to curb anti-competitive behaviour.

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British girl with peanut allergy dies on holiday in Rome

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 29 October, 2024

Manslaughter inquiry launched after 14-year-old went into anaphylactic shock after dining with her family at pizzeria

Prosecutors in Rome have opened a manslaughter investigation after a British girl with a peanut allergy died during a holiday with her family.

The 14-year-old had dined at a pizzeria in the Gianicolense district and went into anaphylactic shock about 15 minutes later after the family returned to their hotel.

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Berlin summons Iran ambassador over execution of German-Iranian

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 29 October, 2024

Daughter of Jamshid Sharmahd says family let down by US and German governments’ failure to save him

Germany has recalled its ambassador to Tehran and summoned the Iranian charge d’affaires in Berlin in protest over the execution of a German-Iranian dual national , Jamshid Sharmahd, accused of terrorism by Iran.

His daughter, Gazelle Sharmahd, who had pressed the German and US governments hard to save him, said she and her brother felt let down by the failure of both governments to do more. Sharmahd was executed on Monday.

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Colin Farrell’s Dublin marathon run raises €774,000 for charity

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 29 October, 2024

Actor ran last part of course pushing friend Emma Fogarty who has genetic condition known as butterfly skin

Colin Farrell has raised €774,000 (£644,000) for a charity supporting people with a rare skin condition by running the Dublin marathon while pushing one of the oldest survivors of the disease in Ireland around part of the course in her wheelchair.

The actor, who was born in the Irish capital, raised the money for Debra Ireland, an organisation that supports people with the incurable genetic condition epidermolysis bullosa (EB), or “butterfly skin”, which causes people to have very fragile and blistering skin.

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‘Carved on bodies and souls’: Russia’s use of male sexual torture in Ukraine

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 29 October, 2024

Survivor Oleksii Sivak has set up a support group for others who have suffered widespread but unspoken abuse

Russian troops tortured Oleksii Sivak for weeks, applying electric shocks to his genitals in a freezing basement in his home city of Kherson in punishment for resisting their rule.

When Ukrainian troops freed the city in the autumn of 2022, Sivak was presented with a long list of medical specialists who could help his recovery and asked to tick the ones he needed.

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Climate crisis caused half of European heat deaths in 2022, says study

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 29 October, 2024

Researchers found 38,000 fewer people – 10 times number of murders – would have died if atmosphere was not clogged with greenhouse pollutants

Climate breakdown caused more than half of the 68,000 heat deaths during the scorching European summer of 2022, a study has found.

Researchers from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) found 38,000 fewer people would have died from heat if humans had not clogged the atmosphere with pollutants that act like a greenhouse and bake the planet. The death toll is about 10 times greater than the number of people murdered in Europe that year.