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• Trayvon Martin's parents: 'The Weinstein Company owes us $150,000'

  23-05-2018 18:09 via theguardian.com
  Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin claim production company failed to pay option fee after entering into deal to purchase rights to book about their son’s killing in 2012The parents of Trayvon Martin, the Florida teenager shot dead while walking home from a convenience store by George Zimmerman, have claimed they are owed at least $150,000 (£110,000) by the Weinstein Company.According to documents filed by Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin in a Delaware bankruptcy court, the company forme
  
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• Virginia school board violated rights of transgender teen, judge rules

  23-05-2018 14:28 via theguardian.com
  In a major victory for trans rights, judge declines board’s request to dismiss case filed by former student Gavin GrimmA federal judge on Tuesday sided with a transgender teen in Virginia who claims a school board violated his rights when it banned him from using boys’ bathrooms.In a major victory for trans rights, US district court Judge Arenda Wright Allen declined the Gloucester county school board’s request to dismiss the case filed by former student Gavin Grimm. Related: W
  
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• Pussycat Dolls sue Daily Mail owner over 'prostitution ring' story

  23-05-2018 14:19 via theguardian.com
  Former girl group member Kaya Jones claimed members were used for sex by music executives – the group has now sued the Mail’s parent company for publishing her remarksGirl group Pussycat Dolls are suing the parent company of the Daily Mail, after an article was published in which former member Kaya Jones said the group was a “prostitution ring”, where members were given drugs and “passed around” music industry executives for sex.The lawsuit, filed by the band&
  
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• Birmingham woman jailed for duping daughter into forced marriage

  23-05-2018 12:51 via theguardian.com
  Mother gets four-and-a-half-year sentence for forcing girl, 17, to wed man in Pakistan, in landmark convictionA woman from Birmingham has been jailed for four and a half years for duping her 17-year-old daughter into travelling to Pakistan and forcing her to marry a man 16 years her senior. The 45-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was found guilty on two counts of forced marriage and a third charge of perjury. The jury returned a not guilty verdict for a further charge of perverti
  
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• Georgia accuses Russia of war crimes during 2008 conflict

  23-05-2018 12:34 via theguardian.com
  Tbilisi also alleges human rights violations in closing evidence at European courtGeorgia has accused Russia of war crimes, human rights violations and a “rampage” across Georgian territory during the bitter military conflict between the countries almost 10 years ago.In closing evidence before the European court of human rights in Strasbourg on Wednesday, the Georgian government said Moscow was guilty of multiple violations during the August 2008 fighting. Continue reading...
  
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• Venezuela has fallen to a dictator. But we can help to restore democracy | Reynaldo Trombetta

  23-05-2018 10:00 via theguardian.com
  Nicolás Maduro has brought the country to its knees. The international community must support Venezuelans trying to restore democracyThe descent of Venezuela into a dictatorship has resembled the fable of the boy that cried wolf. Back in July 2000, when Hugo Chávez won his first re-election, many in the opposition, surprised by his sudden rise in popularity, claimed electoral fraud. Since then, it seems, the norm has been for the opposition to accuse the government of stealing elec
  
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• The next Homeland? The problems with Fauda, Israel's brutal TV hit

  23-05-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  The Netflix smash – about a ruthless Israeli unit hunting down terrorists – has been praised for its evenhanded portrayal of the Palestinian conflict. But are there glaring omissions?Israel’s biggest TV hit series returns to our screens this week, opening with Israel’s biggest nightmare. The second series of Fauda, the political thriller about an Israeli army undercover unit, begins with a bomb explosion at a bus stop. But it gets worse, as it turns out the attack wasn&rs
  
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• Our laws make slaves of nature. It’s not just humans who need rights | Marina Margil

  23-05-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  For decades our laws have been a death sentence for the environment. Now, from the Amazon to Australia, the tide is turningThe Amazon rainforest is often called the earth’s lungs, and generates 20% of the world’s oxygen. Yet in the past half-century nearly a fifth of it has been cut down. The felling and burning of millions of trees is releasing massive amounts of carbon, in turn depleting the Amazon’s capacity to be one of the world’s largest carbon sinks – the nat
  
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• Our laws make slaves of nature. It’s not just humans who need rights | Mari Margil

  23-05-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  For decades our laws have been a death sentence for the environment. Now, from the Amazon to Australia, the tide is turningThe Amazon rainforest is often called the earth’s lungs, and generates 20% of the world’s oxygen. Yet in the past half-century nearly a fifth of it has been cut down. The felling and burning of millions of trees is releasing massive amounts of carbon, in turn depleting the Amazon’s capacity to be one of the world’s largest carbon sinks – the nat
  
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