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Iran angry as sweeping UN sanctions take effect after failure of nuclear talks
Foreign ministry attacks ‘unjustifiable’ return of measures expected to have wide effects on troubled economy
 UN sanctions against Iran have been reactivated after nuclear negotiations aiming at resolving the dispute failed. I don't know enough about the cause of the breakdown to assign blame for the failure.
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Medicare to use AI to approve or deny care in near future – NBC New York
 The use of automated pattern matchers to refuse to pay for medical treatments (including surgery) is being extended from private US medical insurance to basic Medicare. If such systems are trained based on whether the treatment succeeds, so as to approve treatments when they are likely to help and reject them when unlikely, all to optimize the results for the patients, they might be a
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US is violating human rights laws by backing fossil fuels, say young activists in new petition
Petition says that US government’s protection of fossil fuel interests has put people in harm’s way
 *US is violating human rights laws by backing fossil fuels, say young activists in new petition [to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights].*
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‘Wouldn’t knock down Adelaide cathedral’: outrage as golf course upgrade for Saudi-backed LIV tournament threatens burial site
Course upgrade has not been finalised but SA government admits bones in Indigenous site may be disturbed
 Is it wrong to move some old buried bones to build a golf course? The writer presumes that Europeans would have a taboo against moving the bones of Europeans, but that is not so. In the late 1800s, Paris was running out of space for building because of a plethora of cemeteries. The government collected the bones (mostly anonymous) and
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Civilian injuries in Gaza similar to those of soldiers in war zones, study finds
Wounds such as burns or leg injuries are more common in Gaza than among US soldiers who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan
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 *Civilian [nonfatal] injuries in Gaza similar to those of soldiers in war zones, study finds.* Or perhaps they tend to be even worse that injuries of soldiers in other wars. This could be because Israeli soldiers sometimes specifically aim to cause grave wounds.
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Congressional Dems: Hold the Line in the Shutdown Fight
We demand healthcare, not warfare!
 US citizens: call on Democrats to stand firm against the Republican demands to agree to permanent budget cuts in what should be a "continuing resolution."
Tell Washington Post: Rehire Columnist Who Criticized Kirk
Tell Jeff Bezos and Washington Post Publisher William Lewis: “Defend press freedom. Rehire Karen Attiah and refuse to cave to right-wing pressure...
 Everyone: call on the Washington Post to rehire the columnist who criticized Kirk.
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‘Hell on earth’: immigrants held in new California detention facility beg for help
Six people at a remote Ice facility in California City describe medical problems and filthy conditions, which operator CoreCivic denies
 Prisoners in a very new privatized deportation prison in California City report a host of forms of mistreatment, some of which could make them sick and occasionally kill them. As long as the prison guards won't let reporters in to check for themselves, we have every reason to trust the prisoners. On general principles, it is likely that those companies mistreat prisoners because they can increase
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Trump news at a glance: Comey says he knew there would be cost ‘to standing up’ to president, as he is indicted
Former FBI director James Comey has said he is innocent, adding ‘let’s have a trial and keep the faith’. Key US politics stories from 25 Sept...
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 The bully-in-chief ordered the Justice Department to prosecute James Comey, former head of the FBI, for investigating the bully's suspected crimes. Comey said the trial will find him innocent.