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      Trump, Cop29 and Ukraine – Politics Weekly Westminster

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 11 November 2024

    The Guardian’s Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey look at the impact of president-elect Donald Trump’s victory in the US on the Labour party, defence, trade and international relations. Plus Kiran heads to the Cop29 climate summit

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      ‘I went to war. It was a nightmare’: how children have become ‘cannon fodder’ in DRC’s endless conflict

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 11 November 2024

    Driven mostly by poverty, children as young as 10 have been enlisted by the country’s militias, while NGOs try to reach and reintegrate those who escape

    Despite her slight frame, Constance* carried a rocket-propelled grenade into battle against Rwanda-backed M23 rebels. She bears scars on her face from the hot bullet casings that flew through the air in the heat of combat.

    Constance was 13 years old when she left her home in the hills of North Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), to join a militia. “I went to war,” she says, from a displacement camp near the regional capital, Goma. “It was a nightmare.”

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      ‘I feared for my life’: stories of sexual harassment on the Camino de Santiago

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 11 November 2024

    Female pilgrims tell of terrifying aggression, the lingering effects and their belief that their cases are far from isolated

    It was on the outskirts of the northern Spanish town of Mieres, as she raced past colourful houses built of stone and wood-framed windows, that Sara Dhooma wrestled with the possibility that she might die.

    Minutes earlier, the Canadian had been walking a remote section of the Camino de Santiago. After noticing a man was following her, she ducked into a cafe. When she re-emerged, the same man was seemingly waiting for her along another part of the ancient network of pilgrimage routes. This time he unzipped his trousers and grabbed his genitals.

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      Women walking Camino de Santiago speak of ‘terrifying’ sexual harassment

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 11 November 2024

    Sexual aggression said to be ‘endemic’ on route through Spain, Portugal and France with solo female pilgrims at risk

    Lone female pilgrims walking the Camino de Santiago have spoken of being subjected to “terrifying” sexual harassment in near-deserted areas of rural Spain, Portugal and France.

    In interviews with the Guardian, nine women alleged they had experienced harassment while attempting the pilgrimage route over the past five years, with several saying they had feared for their lives.

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      100,000 Chinese students join 50km night-time bike ride in search of good soup dumplings

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 11 November 2024

    Authorities impose restrictions on bike hire after huge group blocks a highway between Zhengzhou and Kaifeng in China, as night biking trend takes off

    A night-time cycling trend that started with four Chinese students riding 50km for dumplings blew out to a reported 100,000 people on Friday, jamming major roads, overwhelming a small tourist city and drawing the attention of authorities.

    The pack of students, mostly on public share bikes, rode several hours through Henan province from their campuses in Zhengzhou to the ancient city of Kaifeng.

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      Haiti’s interim prime minister fired as security crisis mounts

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 11 November 2024

    The firing of Garry Conille is the latest blow to political stability in Haiti, which has been wracked with worsening violence

    A transitional council created to restore democratic order in Haiti has fired its interim prime minister Garry Conille and is set to replace him with businessman Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, in a further sign of escalating turmoil in the Caribbean nation.

    The decision, outlined in a decree by the council that was seen by the Associated Press, is expected to be published on Monday in the official gazette.

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      Finding one trillion dollars at Cop29 – podcast

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 11 November 2024

    Will richer nations find the climate finance desperately needed by developing countries? Damian Carrington reports

    Azerbaijan, a petrostate with an economy built on oil and gas, is hosting Cop29, the United Nations climate conference. It’s a controversial choice, but is there hope to be found at this year’s summit?

    The main objective of Cop29 is getting richer nations to agree to inject climate finance into developing countries. “Everyone’s focus is on $1tn [£774bn],” the Guardian’s environment editor, Damian Carrington , tells Helen Pidd . “Which sounds like a crazy big number. Personally, actually, I think it’s a bargain.

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