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War Crimes Air strikes hit a hospital in a rebel-held area of Syria’s Aleppo and killed at least 27 people, including three children and the city’s last paediatrician, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Thursday. A new wave of aerial bombing on Thursday on rebel-held districts of the city killed at least 30 more civilians, a rescue worker said. The Observatory put the toll at least 20. In government-held areas, rebel mortar shelling killed at least 14 people, the Britain-based Observatory and Syria’s state news agency SANA reported. The bombed Al Quds hospital was supported by international medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), which said it was destroyed after being hit by a direct air strike that killed at least three doctors. Bebars Mishal of the Civil Defence in Aleppo told Reuters that 40 people had been killed in a five-storey building next to the hospital. More: http://gulfnews.com/news/mena/syria/27-kille

globinfo freexchange Πρόσφατη έρευνα δείχνει, ότι το άδικο φορολογικό σύστημα είναι σε ένα σημαντικό βαθμό υπεύθυνο για τη συσσώρευση πλούτου και την αυξανόμενη ανισότητα στη Λατινική Αμερική. Από το prensa-rebelde : Η συγκέντρωση του πλούτου στο 10% του πληθυσμού της Λατινικής Αμερικής και της Καραϊβικής οξύνει την ανισότητα στην περιοχή, επιβεβαιώνει μια έκθεση που παρουσίασε η Oικονομική Επιτροπή για τη Λατινική Αμερική και την Καραϊβική (Cepal) του ΟΗΕ. Σύμφωνα με την ανάλυση “Φορολογία για μια ολοκληρωμένη ανάπτυξη”, που πραγματοποιήθηκε από κοινού με την μη κυβερνητική οργάνωση Οxfam, αυτό το 10% κατέχει το 71% του πλούτου και πληρώνει μόνο το 5,4% φόρο από τα εισόδηματά του και αυτό είναι που “βρίσκεται στην καρδιά της ανισότητας”, μετέδωσε ο ρεπόρτερ του πρακτορείου Prensa Latina στον ΟΗΕ και την Οxfarm που βρέθηκε στην Χιλιανή πρωτεύουσα για το 28ο Περιφερειακό Σεμινάριο Φορολογικής Πολιτικής.

A newly published study from Oxford’s Jon Penney provides empirical evidence for a key argument long made by privacy advocates: that the mere existence of a surveillance state breeds fear and conformity and stifles free expression. Reporting on the study, the Washington Post this morning described this phenomenon: “ If we think that authorities are watching our online actions, we might stop visiting certain websites or not say certain things just to avoid seeming suspicious. ” The new study documents how, in the wake of the 2013 Snowden revelations (of which 87% of Americans were aware), there was “ a 20 percent decline in page views on Wikipedia articles related to terrorism, including those that mentioned ‘al-Qaeda,’ 'car bomb’ or ‘Taliban.' ” People were afraid to read articles about those topics because of fear that doing so would bring them under a cloud of suspicion. The dangers of that dynamic were expressed well by Penney: “ If people are spooked or

WikiLeaks took to Twitter to criticize what the organization describes as the continued “censorship” of the Panama Papers archive by the organizations and reporters who control the contents of the leak. The massive archive of 2.6 terabytes of financial data leaked from Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca is controlled by German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, and hundreds of journalists who have been selected to write about the archive’s contents. The Panama Papers exposed the efforts the world’s wealthiest people, including more than a dozen world leaders, take to hide their earnings from tax authorities. The release caused upheaval in Iceland’s government and protests in the United Kingdom. A growing number of international authorities are demanding access to the archive, according to German broadcaster Deutsche Welle, including a German finance minister and representatives of the U.S. Justice

Police officers have clashed with protesters and deployed tear gas in several French cities, according to local media. Arrests were made as thousands of people took to the streets to continue demonstrations against labor reforms. Photos posted on Twitter showed demonstrators making their way through clouds of tear gas as they marched through the streets of several French cities, including Nantes, Lyon, Rennes, and Paris. In Rennes, police deployed tear gas on demonstrators throwing projectiles on a street leading to the square of the Parliament of Brittany. About 9,000 demonstrators gathered on the streets of Nantes, according to police. An image posted on Twitter showed a Porsche and a scooter which had been set on fire. Windows could also be seen smashed across the city. The mayor of Nantes, Johanna Rolland, has condemned the incidents as "unacceptable acts of small groups whose express purpose is to commit violence," French news outlet 20 Mi