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f1e22a42353615de17b5d55cb617bbee | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-23/coronavirus-doctor-h1b-visa | Op-Ed: I’m an immigrant doctor treating COVID-19 patients. Death isn’t my only fear right now | Op-Ed: I’m an immigrant doctor treating COVID-19 patients. Death isn’t my only fear right now
I am a kidney doctor in rural Pennsylvania, caring for COVID-19 patients and trying my best to survive despite limited supplies of personal protective equipment.
I am also one of some 300,000 Indians in the United States on a ... |
f4f490b175cbbe0e104af8e5c28cda07 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-23/editorial-wealthy-towns-testing-program-is-a-favor-to-the-rest-of-us | Editorial: This California town has the coronavirus testing program we all need. We should be thankful they do | Editorial: This California town has the coronavirus testing program we all need. We should be thankful they do
It’s galling that celebrities, professional athletes and politicians without symptoms were able to use their connections and wealth to score COVID-19 tests early in the pandemic, when physicians and hospitals ... |
989946886ced5d4ed2bc35adeeb6afc5 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-23/newsom-stopgap-stimulus-perpetuates-immigrant-abuse | Letters to the Editor: Newsom’s stopgap stimulus for immigrants perpetuates their abuse | Letters to the Editor: Newsom’s stopgap stimulus for immigrants perpetuates their abuse
To the editor: Columnist George Skelton crows that Gov. Gavin Newsom is doing right by undocumented immigrants in including them in a coronavirus financial relief program.
Really? By no rational standard is California behaving ethic... |
76ebb34154d96a71dd777bb3e1c2b577 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-23/op-ed-can-americas-public-spaces-survive-coronavirus | Op-Ed: It’s on us to keep our neighborhoods vibrant. Read this before your next quarantine walk | Op-Ed: It’s on us to keep our neighborhoods vibrant. Read this before your next quarantine walk
I live in Santa Monica, and ordinarily I give the city’s Third Street Promenade a wide berth just before Christmas, when cranky holiday shoppers clog the streets and parking is impossible. But this last December my daughter ... |
a0eca9964394d918f3da35413213e1f9 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-23/ridiculous-to-blame-trumps-coronavirus-neglect-on-impeachment | Letters to the Editor: Dealing with coronavirus was Trump’s job, even during impeachment | Letters to the Editor: Dealing with coronavirus was Trump’s job, even during impeachment
To the editor: Recently you published two letters pointing out that the media were focused on impeachment and not the coronavirus in January and early February. The authors suggest that absolves President Trump of any responsibilit... |
ab1c91f9b01b17db81ff62e51019b390 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-24/coronavirus-antibody-tests-immunity-discrimination | Op-Ed: Get ready for a new form of bias: discrimination based on coronavirus immunity | Op-Ed: Get ready for a new form of bias: discrimination based on coronavirus immunity
Antibody tests that aim to show whether a person has been exposed to the coronavirus and presumably has immunity are expected to flood the market very soon. Such tests, if accurate, could help us understand the spread of the virus and... |
74b74c0cacda862d279eb12d18713b7f | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-24/coronavirus-beach-parks-reopen | Editorial: When will it actually be safe to go to the beach again? | Editorial: When will it actually be safe to go to the beach again?
As the weather warms and people start itching to go to their favorite outdoor haunts, Southern California cities are beginning to reopen their recreation spaces. But which destinations should open when and for whom?
Sadly, there’s been no rhyme or reaso... |
726c06c040eb9b34e5b51a65c690069e | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-24/trump-coronavirus-stimulus-checks-married-noncitizens | Letters to the Editor: Enforcing Trump’s anti-immigrant policies makes no sense in a pandemic | Letters to the Editor: Enforcing Trump’s anti-immigrant policies makes no sense in a pandemic
To the editor: It is outrageous that taxpayers married to noncitizens who are paying their taxes too are not receiving COVID-19 relief checks from the federal government.
Can someone please ask one of the scientists on the Whi... |
007075cb06fc3ba3cac531a19f7b064e | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-25/coronavirus-cancer-patients-need-treatment | Letters to the Editor: Coronavirus isn’t making cancer less deadly. Patients need treatment now | Letters to the Editor: Coronavirus isn’t making cancer less deadly. Patients need treatment now
To the editor: Cancer doesn’t wait for the coronavirus pandemic. According to the American Cancer Society, 150,000 Americans are diagnosed with cancer monthly, 100,000 of whom require surgery. (“We are losing ground on every... |
4e86510877db92a677ae6f8b99aeb733 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-25/protestors-crying-oppression-get-no-sympathy-from-readers | Opinion: These protestors crying oppression get almost no sympathy from readers | Opinion: These protestors crying oppression get almost no sympathy from readers
It’s hard to think of a group of people — not politicians or public figures of any kind, but just normal people — who have drawn more howls of protest from our letter writers in such a short period of time than the crowds clamoring for an e... |
1c5b118675e2643f9e00dff8d1cbc99f | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-26/column-feeling-sad-lethargic-fearful-happiness-is-just-a-bike-ride-away | Column: Feeling sad? Lethargic? Fearful? Happiness is just a bike ride away | Column: Feeling sad? Lethargic? Fearful? Happiness is just a bike ride away
At the beginning of the shutdown, I was overcome by a palpable sense of lethargy.
All I wanted to do was sleep in and eat toast.
I stopped running with my partner, because our usual route — the beach bike path in Venice and Santa Monica — is cl... |
0966db5a1c97b4beee1dbf5516f388f0 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-26/n95-mask-fit-test-worthless | Letters to the Editor: Your N95 mask might be worthless without a proper fit test | Letters to the Editor: Your N95 mask might be worthless without a proper fit test
To the editor: N95 respirator masks are just a dollar’s worth of paper unless you’re fit-tested. (“Suppliers cash in as California taxpayers hit with wildly inflated prices for masks,” April 23)
Fit-testing is a required process in health... |
8df921f23d6131cba484754e6ad54cb7 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-26/op-ed-surprised-that-black-people-have-a-higher-risk-of-death-from-covid-19-im-not | Op-Ed: Surprised that black people have a higher risk of death from COVID-19? I’m not | Op-Ed: Surprised that black people have a higher risk of death from COVID-19? I’m not
At age 26, recently engaged and about to start my first grown-up managerial position in city government, I was handed a hefty report summarizing the results of my “comprehensive executive health assessment,” an onboarding requirement ... |
9d162ab33647236cad91edd361d9e010 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-27/editorial-the-coronavirus-has-returned-us-to-plastic-bag-madness-it-has-to-be-temporary | Editorial: The coronavirus brought back plastic bag madness. Let’s make sure it’s temporary | Editorial: The coronavirus brought back plastic bag madness. Let’s make sure it’s temporary
Among the many bad things to come out of the coronavirus pandemic is the resurgence of single-use plastic.
In early March, weeks before California adopted the nation’s first stay-at-home orders and when toilet paper could still ... |
17c5af5745d91c394ab369122afff8a2 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-27/los-angeles-streets-freeways-keep-traffic-like-it-is-now | Column: What it would take to keep L.A. traffic from returning to soul-crushing levels | Column: What it would take to keep L.A. traffic from returning to soul-crushing levels
Each morning I check the roads even though I’m not going anywhere.
Today my drive to work, if I had made it, would have taken 26 minutes, according to Google Maps. That’s about half of what it takes when I actually commute — when the... |
ffb32faae485f84d3bbc0e184a90704f | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-27/november-election-turnout-young-voters-climate-change | Op-Ed: Take a coronavirus break, college students, and use it to save the world | Op-Ed: Take a coronavirus break, college students, and use it to save the world
On the theory that no crisis should go unused, let me make a not-so-modest proposal to all the college students out there who are about to be told that their campuses will be shut down for the fall semester.
Your classes are either going to... |
08702c018388dc022a68fc6eff37cc55 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-27/opinion-the-supreme-court-obamacare-insurers-risk-corridors | Opinion: The Supreme Court just restored another piece of Obamacare — years too late | Opinion: The Supreme Court just restored another piece of Obamacare — years too late
Looks like health insurers will get their “bailout” after all.
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Congress muffed the effort, led by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Rep. Tim Griffin (R-Ark.), to deny insurers the money Congress promised... |
762e36afdaf4cbb4ee9e2885ef0b86ed | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-27/supreme-court-new-york-guns-2nd-amendment | Opinion: Supreme Court ducks a 2nd Amendment issue — for now | Opinion: Supreme Court ducks a 2nd Amendment issue — for now
It’s not often that a non-decision is a good decision, but the Supreme Court’s ruling Monday morning that it would not decide a New York City gun case was the right call.
And, in a sense, gun-control advocates dodged a legal bullet — this time. Unfortunately,... |
1a8e46e0af77b2fa71128fb792a1b75b | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-28/column-why-did-trump-embrace-disinfectant-as-a-cure-for-coronavirus-he-listens-to-quacks | Column: Why did Trump push disinfectant as a cure for the coronavirus? He listens to quacks | Column: Why did Trump push disinfectant as a cure for the coronavirus? He listens to quacks
It was one of those jaw-dropping moments we’ve come to expect from the president: “I see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute, one minute,” Trump said last week during his daily news briefing.
Looking in the direction... |
67a6a5880de99895dea7cb77ae6c1d53 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-28/government-bankruptcy-mcconnell-trump | Editorial: Letting state governments go bankrupt is a terrible idea | Editorial: Letting state governments go bankrupt is a terrible idea
Congress has cranked the spigot of federal dollars wide open in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, first to improve the public health system’s response and then later to try to soften the blow to the U.S. economy. The amount of spending has been breath... |
82e4f4debc2df799cc748f558474231f | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-28/psychological-toll-coronavirus-pandemic-suicide-breen-mondello | Editorial: The psychological toll of the coronavirus is a pandemic of its own | Editorial: The psychological toll of the coronavirus is a pandemic of its own
In the midst of a pandemic, sometimes a single death can bring home the vast scope of the crisis. Dr. Lorna M. Breen, an emergency room physician at New York-Presbyterian Allen Hospital, treated countless COVID-19 patients until she contracte... |
70c4646a76f4735e88e2faf32f6ce28c | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-28/ramadan-coronavirus | Op-Ed: Ramadan in the time of the coronavirus | Op-Ed: Ramadan in the time of the coronavirus
The harira soup was flavored with lamb, the bread was freshly baked, and the dates were sweet as molasses, but what I remember most was the warmth of my parents and siblings around me. In Morocco, as elsewhere in the Muslim world, Ramadan was a time for community. For thirt... |
38f2833435de038abc070b8037894d76 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-28/what-are-o-c-cities-thinking-keeping-their-beaches-open | Letters to the Editor: What are O.C. cities thinking keeping their beaches open? | Letters to the Editor: What are O.C. cities thinking keeping their beaches open?
To the editor: For the Huntington Beach Police Department spokeswoman to say that what officers observed at city beaches on Saturday was people staying in their own groups and at appropriate distances from others is amazing. What a disconn... |
12614cff186916addc70747259f40580 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-29/don-mcgahn-donald-trump-congress-subpoena-obstruction-of-justice-dc-circuit-court | Column: Trump, Don McGahn and DOJ stonewalled Congress. Look for the courts to set them right | Column: Trump, Don McGahn and DOJ stonewalled Congress. Look for the courts to set them right
Remember Don McGahn, President Trump’s long-ago White House counsel? Well, he’s back, and more important than ever.
In truth, McGahn never left. He is the defendant in House Judiciary Committee vs. Don McGahn, a lawsuit that h... |
95946b377c89c41223c1fc3a80aec873 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-29/editorial-presidents-meat-supply-fix-is-a-recipe-for-coronavirus-disaster | Editorial: Trump’s meat supply fix is a recipe for coronavirus disaster | Editorial: Trump’s meat supply fix is a recipe for coronavirus disaster
Dozens of beef, chicken and pork processing and packing plants have shut down across the nation as COVID-19 infections soar among workers. More plants are on the verge of closing on account of sick workers or facilities that need to be sanitized.
L... |
6aa739cce0906398841eab5f4704ec3d | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-29/opinion-in-targeting-state-shutdowns-barr-is-acting-again-as-trumps-wing-man | Opinion: Bill Barr is acting like Trump’s wing man. Again | Opinion: Bill Barr is acting like Trump’s wing man. Again
In 2013 then-Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr., asked in an interview if he would be leaving the Obama administration, said that he would be staying because he liked what he was doing, and “I’m still the president’s wing-man, so I’m there with my boy.”
Some conserva... |
6f3407cc8027ef5c90c143c84e358539 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-30/coronavirus-is-causing-a-meat-shortage | Letters to the Editor: Coronavirus might cause us to eat less meat? Good | Letters to the Editor: Coronavirus might cause us to eat less meat? Good
Too the editor: COVID-19 is a multiple-level disaster, make no mistake about that. But there is some silver lining, and a meat shortage could be one. (“Trump’s meat supply fix is a recipe for coronavirus disaster,” editorial, April 29)
I chose to ... |
76499c1a94f45263d125d5fed20ee6e5 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-30/editorial-tara-reades-allegation-that-joe-biden-assaulted-her-deserves-an-independent-investigation | Editorial: Tara Reade’s allegation that Joe Biden assaulted her demands an independent investigation | Editorial: Tara Reade’s allegation that Joe Biden assaulted her demands an independent investigation
As he prepares to claim the Democratic presidential nomination, former Vice President Joe Biden is rightly being exhorted to make a fuller and more public response to an allegation by Tara Reade, who asserts that Biden ... |
ce7b4cce15fb4be83b31e23d1e2b8e84 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-30/jared-kushner-donald-trump-covid-19-federal-response | Column: As coronavirus deaths rise, Jared Kushner pushes Trump’s ‘great success story’ | Column: As coronavirus deaths rise, Jared Kushner pushes Trump’s ‘great success story’
In late 2019, Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, counseled a Saudi prince in his time of need. Poor Mohammed bin Salman. He was in hot water, you’ll recall, for ordering up an assassination that included sawing off the limb... |
060d645e7b777df99314a8b927d0a667 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-30/rationing-covid-19-treatment-triage-elerdely-disabled | Letters to the Editor: Rationing COVID-19 treatment to the elderly and disabled is illegal and immoral | Letters to the Editor: Rationing COVID-19 treatment to the elderly and disabled is illegal and immoral
To the editor: Thank you for your editorial opposing any triage system that takes disability, age or wealth into account. The Americans with Disabilities Act, which I authored, sought to ensure people with disabilitie... |
f861b590638b5af6f1fbb9024d3d502f | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-01/herd-immunity-or-culling-the-herd-covid-19 | Letters to the Editor: Herd immunity, or culling the herd? Don’t mess with COVID-19 | Letters to the Editor: Herd immunity, or culling the herd? Don’t mess with COVID-19
To the editor: There has been talk here in the U.S. as well as Israel about using herd immunity developed by intentionally infecting healthy volunteers to stop COVID-19 from wreaking havoc on economies.
Problem is, we don’t know enough ... |
8a003177b5b1b7448cf29eeeec0a7d09 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-01/joe-biden-tara-reade-denial-of-sexual-assault-mika-interview | Opinion: Joe Biden’s unequivocal denial of assault allegations should hearten supporters — if it holds up | Opinion: Joe Biden’s unequivocal denial of assault allegations should hearten supporters — if it holds up
Former Vice President Joe Biden went on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program Friday morning to address the claim by Tara Reade, who served on his Senate staff in the 1990s, that he had sexually assaulted her.
In denying R... |
b4697bd8e11a497edc4bb0c835b81719 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-01/op-ed-biden-should-emphasize-his-expertise | Op-Ed: Biden should play up his expertise, since it’s something Trump lacks | Op-Ed: Biden should play up his expertise, since it’s something Trump lacks
There are many ways to analyze American political divisions, but one that may be especially germane to this period and to the coming presidential election is the persistent tension between the electorate’s longing for expertise and the appeal o... |
c96f140e10f3c7b38b41ac26350bcda4 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-01/org-domain-sale-icann-ethos | Op-Ed: The sale of the dot-org registry to a private equity firm was just blocked. Here’s why it matters | Op-Ed: The sale of the dot-org registry to a private equity firm was just blocked. Here’s why it matters
A decision announced Thursday is a rare bit of good news in these troubling times.
After months of delays while its staff worked from home, and under mounting pressure, the Los Angeles-based Internet Corporation for... |
321094bee719db5f7aca649c13bb744d | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-01/plastic-bag-ban-halted-coronavirus | Letters to the Editor: Use plastic bags or catch coronavirus is a false choice | Letters to the Editor: Use plastic bags or catch coronavirus is a false choice
To the editor: The safety of front-line workers and efforts to flatten the COVID-19 curve are our top priorities right now. However, there is no reason to encourage the use of disposable plastic bags.
No evidence supports disposable plastics... |
528b2fd486957a64fda4768f1bf7c359 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-01/trump-michigan-governor-whitmer-deal-armed-protesters | Opinion: Trump actually wants Michigan’s governor to ‘make a deal’ with armed protesters | Opinion: Trump actually wants Michigan’s governor to ‘make a deal’ with armed protesters
Protesters, several of them carrying semiautomatic rifles, swept into the state Legislature chamber in Lansing, Mich., Thursday in the second such action by people there who are upset with Michigan’s stay-at-home directives.
How di... |
b9e3581db3dc2b53191dc84693470e49 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-02/democrats-should-brush-off-the-joe-biden-assault-allegation | Letters to the Editor: Yes, Democrats will brush off the Joe Biden assault allegation | Letters to the Editor: Yes, Democrats will brush off the Joe Biden assault allegation
To the editor: Democrats have watched these past three years as supporters of President Trump and Republicans in general ignored the credible sexual assault allegations against their leader. Since it hasn’t bothered the GOP crowd, why... |
2e80f3cfc15cce8666f1bd6d6f04b9d5 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-02/young-people-student-loan-debt-climate-activism | Letters to the Editor: Don’t expect debt-loaded students to save the world from climate change | Letters to the Editor: Don’t expect debt-loaded students to save the world from climate change
To the editor: I am sick of reading propositions put forth by older people for students to rally to fix a world set on a collision course by their elders. (“Take a coronavirus break, college students, and use it to save the w... |
db948c0732bd6db282614db892391b88 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-03/big-ones-pandemic-coronavirus | Op-Ed: What earthquakes can teach us about the coronavirus pandemic | Op-Ed: What earthquakes can teach us about the coronavirus pandemic
By any standard, the COVID-19 pandemic is one of the great disasters of modern times. A single house fire is calamitous for that family. A flash flood can devastate a town. The 1994 Northridge earthquake killed dozens and damaged businesses that took y... |
b8beee0f4cf87e45f0a6af8c23a5c263 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-03/democratic-partys-metoo-hypocrisy-on-joe-biden-is-stunning | Letters to the Editor: The Democratic Party’s #MeToo hypocrisy on Joe Biden is stunning | Letters to the Editor: The Democratic Party’s #MeToo hypocrisy on Joe Biden is stunning
To the editor: The Democratic Party’s public support for the #MeToo movement needs to be applauded and examined. Like most women, I have been glad that Democratic Party leaders have been vocal. I welcomed the investigation into alle... |
689d9e028662734edbdea42dfdcdd326 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-03/shes-73-and-is-fine-with-a-younger-covid-patient-take-a-ventilator | Letters to the Editor: She’s 73 and is fine with a younger COVID patient taking a ventilator | Letters to the Editor: She’s 73 and is fine with a younger COVID patient taking a ventilator
To the editor: When I was 27, a friend’s brother died in a plane crash. He was 23. When I was 46, a boy in my daughter’s high school died in a swimming pool accident. He was 17. When I was 50, a friend the same age suffered a c... |
f17f2e62db46600a84fffa24dcff3fb1 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-04/clarence-thomas-supreme-court-oral-arguments-livestream | Opinion: Clarence Thomas speaks and other notable events from Supreme Court livestream | Opinion: Clarence Thomas speaks and other notable events from Supreme Court livestream
A lot of reaction to the Supreme Court’s first day of coronavirus-inspired tele-arguments has focused on the fact that the normally silent Justice Clarence Thomas actively engaged in questioning lawyers over the phone. More about tha... |
100127fea74e41f20b9ce3f4eb83e888 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-04/coronavirus-ventilator-ptsd-syndrome | Op-Ed: The trauma that comes after surviving COVID-19 | Op-Ed: The trauma that comes after surviving COVID-19
Since nearly half of all patients with severe respiratory failure who are placed on a ventilator die, we tend to declare victory if a COVID-19 patient comes off the machine alive.
But the reality is that many survivors of severe respiratory failure and other forms o... |
1ebb5329bf3ce6f9d8243c3fd92123f4 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-04/governors-lockdowns-economy-reopening-coronavirus | Op-Ed: State lockdowns have become politically divisive. Here’s how we can come together | Op-Ed: State lockdowns have become politically divisive. Here’s how we can come together
Americans are in the midst of a moral dilemma as stark as any in the Bible. If we end the lockdown, deaths from COVID-19 will increase, but if we maintain it, the astounding unemployment rate will move still higher.
The problem wou... |
c99fb44625a733c6f06f7a747a88dd88 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-04/l-a-county-silences-public | Editorial: What L.A. County’s supes are telling you about your right to be heard: Just shut up | Editorial: What L.A. County’s supes are telling you about your right to be heard: Just shut up
Last month, Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn stood up for the public and its right to address the Board of Supervisors in real time on the county’s management of the COVID-19 emergency and the ensuing budget and econ... |
700634c7a032b5c7e71ab203593c43a6 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-04/nursing-home-immunity-liability | Editorial: Don’t use coronavirus as an excuse to lower California’s medical care standards | Editorial: Don’t use coronavirus as an excuse to lower California’s medical care standards
In the midst of the coronavirus emergency, hospitals, nursing homes and other healthcare providers want California Gov. Gavin Newsom to use some of his extraordinary power to sweep away their liability for substandard care and ba... |
0fa4618a3222e64469109037b5683f98 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-05/china-mask-diplomacy | Op-Ed: China’s latest ‘charm offensive’: Using mask diplomacy to divert world attention from its misdeeds | Op-Ed: China’s latest ‘charm offensive’: Using mask diplomacy to divert world attention from its misdeeds
We’ve seen something like this before. Straight from its well-versed playbook, China has gone on a “charm offensive” to try to make the world forget Beijing’s culpability in the coronavirus crisis. This time, the c... |
c23e6cd9523111be7d01e18848e7f9f0 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-05/coronavirus-protesters-turn-american-flag-into-symbol-of-selfishness | Letters to the Editor: Coronavirus protesters turn the American flag into a symbol of selfishness | Letters to the Editor: Coronavirus protesters turn the American flag into a symbol of selfishness
To the editor: Photos in the Los Angeles Times show the anti-lockdown protesters in Orange County waving Americans flags. To me, the American flag has always been a symbol of all that is good about us — our altruistic cour... |
0ae19c265cb70ccd12bcbe32eda45e98 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-05/elites-hate-urban-sprawl | Letters to the Editor: Of course elites hate suburban sprawl. Don’t listen to them | Letters to the Editor: Of course elites hate suburban sprawl. Don’t listen to them
To the editor: The letters that condemn suburban sprawl are written by elitists who regard the rest of us as being too stupid to choose for ourselves how to live.
Sprawl is a good thing to be encouraged because it provides houses that pe... |
c4e8ae0d5e23f5eadf8155ba26a40f5b | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-05/lockdowns-arent-working-laying-off-healthcare-workers | Letters to the Editor: Lockdowns aren’t working if we’re laying off healthcare workers | Letters to the Editor: Lockdowns aren’t working if we’re laying off healthcare workers
To the editor: The article, “Thousands of healthcare workers are laid off or furloughed as coronavirus spreads,” highlights how the singular focus on one objective — fewer COVID-19 deaths — ignores the vast economic damage, human mis... |
4c6ec74db47b779da029eb9cf5820722 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-05/politics-trump-coronavirus-task-force-pence | Opinion: Why shut down his coronavirus task force? Trump wants someone to blame if things get worse | Opinion: Why shut down his coronavirus task force? Trump wants someone to blame if things get worse
Vice President Mike Pence confirmed to reporters on Tuesday afternoon that the White House might look to close down the special coronavirus task force he’s been leading, possibly in early June.
Why, you might ask?
Well, ... |
d9855d9df9ef735604485c4fc31e0029 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-06/editorial-a-battle-over-birth-control-the-trump-administration-should-lose | Editorial: A battle over birth control the Trump administration should lose | Editorial: A battle over birth control the Trump administration should lose
The fight over whether employer-provided health insurance has to cover birth control for women returns to a familiar battleground Wednesday: the U.S. Supreme Court.
How did something as simple and straightforward and profoundly important to a w... |
2944624769032c224c9d89a5abb0391a | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-06/editorial-coronavirus-is-teaching-us-lessons-on-how-to-coexist-with-nature | Editorial: Coronavirus is teaching us lessons on how to coexist with nature | Editorial: Coronavirus is teaching us lessons on how to coexist with nature
Shut inside their homes day after day by the COVID-19 pandemic, people have been reveling in photos of wildlife roaming in the spaces they left behind. But the images don’t necessarily reveal what you think.
Those inspiring photos of dolphins s... |
ebf3d4a8e85324c271658cec5c7956b1 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-06/fauci-and-birx-resign-or-stay-on | Column: Is it time for Drs. Fauci and Birx to quit on principle? | Column: Is it time for Drs. Fauci and Birx to quit on principle?
How long can Deborah Birx and Anthony Fauci keep this up? We’ve been watching their faces, and we know as surely as we know ourselves that they are in agony working for an administration ruled by chaos and led by an irresponsible enemy of science who gets... |
545288fdefbe297b9e22ef71f0403c83 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-06/hiv-aids-covid-19-death-comparisons-coronavirus | Letters to the Editor: Don’t forget the ongoing HIV/AIDS crisis in COVID-19 death comparisons | Letters to the Editor: Don’t forget the ongoing HIV/AIDS crisis in COVID-19 death comparisons
To the editor: It is unfortunate that your graphic of U.S. deaths from war, disease and disasters neglected to include the last great pandemic that ravaged and is still ravaging the United States. HIV/AIDS has killed more than... |
4f73fd9c270eef044e42dc8c1dec7a5c | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-06/mass-incarceration-san-francisco-coronavirus | Op-Ed: I’m keeping San Francisco safer by emptying the jail. My father should be freed too | Op-Ed: I’m keeping San Francisco safer by emptying the jail. My father should be freed too
I am the district attorney in San Francisco, and my job is to keep the public safe. In mid-March, I started emptying out our city and county jail because those living and working there face a grave risk of falling ill, dying and ... |
1ed76d60239b243818813b9fa5ae1733 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-06/opinion-trump-nominee-intelligence-ratcliffe-barr | Opinion: Trump’s nominee to oversee intelligence says the right things, but so did Barr | Opinion: Trump’s nominee to oversee intelligence says the right things, but so did Barr
Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas), President Trump’s nominee to be director of national intelligence, was a leading Republican voice during the House impeachment inquiry and his credentials to oversee the intelligence community are unde... |
2b356cfe9dd648e97a16e326a92f136a | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-06/supervisors-virtual-meetings-are-one-huge-brown-act-violation | Letters to the Editor: How L.A. County supervisors’ virtual meetings are ‘one huge Brown Act violation’ | Letters to the Editor: How L.A. County supervisors’ virtual meetings are ‘one huge Brown Act violation’
To the editor: From 2003 to 2014, I served as a member of one of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s regional service councils. Like the Metro board of directors, we were under the jurisdic... |
4937b55afeb316b04f2157d4c17f4928 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-06/trump-cant-handle-pandemic-because-he-doesnt-care-about-other-people | Letters to the Editor: Trump can’t handle a pandemic because he doesn’t care about other people | Letters to the Editor: Trump can’t handle a pandemic because he doesn’t care about other people
To the editor: It is obvious that President Trump’s major concern is to jump-start the economy at any human cost. He likes to say that the loss of one human life is unacceptable, but it’s evident that he will accept 3,000 de... |
5587fab3ff33bf88f1a29c013df1bb62 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-06/working-parents-need-schools-daycares-and-camps-open-first | Opinion: We can’t reopen the economy without child care | Opinion: We can’t reopen the economy without child care
Another day, another state relaxes its stay-at-home orders.
Just in the last two days, more governors, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, have given their blessing to allow previously shuttered retail stores, including bookshops, clothing stores and sporting goods deale... |
6048e5be16c8a6dfebf267624bbc9dbe | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-07/california-budget-54-billion-hole | Editorial: California was ready for a recession, but nothing could have prepared it for coronavirus | Editorial: California was ready for a recession, but nothing could have prepared it for coronavirus
California officials offered a grim preview Thursday of what the COVID-19 pandemic could do to vital state programs and services, forecasting that legislators will face a $54-billion budget gap for the current fiscal yea... |
d0f9d665853708bc54e05093fc380def | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-07/can-poetry-rescue-us-from-the-pandemic-maybe-it-can-rescue-us-from-oursev | Opinion: Reading poetry under lockdown is easier than baking sourdough. And it’s healthier | Opinion: Reading poetry under lockdown is easier than baking sourdough. And it’s healthier
Can poetry save our sanity during the pandemic? Or, at least, distract us? I’ll let you know after I moderate a panel of accomplished poets Thursday night.
In a time of need for solace, poetry is the most rarefied form of distrac... |
e4081c65237b7fbf6b88964622aff831 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-07/editorial-anti-vaxxers-have-found-a-new-way-to-make-people-unsafe | Editorial: Anti-vaxxers have found a new way to make people unsafe | Editorial: Anti-vaxxers have found a new way to make people unsafe
Protesters plan to gather in Sacramento Thursday for a second time in less than a week to demand that Gov. Gavin Newsom lift pandemic-related restrictions so that people can exercise their God-given right to spread the coronavirus.
If that sounds famili... |
7694bc8a481dbe2547d7a969098b3c1c | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-07/lawsuits-colleges-covid-19-tuition | Editorial: A new extracurricular: Suing colleges for a COVID-19-tainted experience | Editorial: A new extracurricular: Suing colleges for a COVID-19-tainted experience
Among the many millions of people who have gotten a raw deal this spring are college students who were suddenly told by their schools to pack up, head home and spend the rest of the semester learning online. For some of them, especially ... |
37a38b40578da87df810bc55d24a75fa | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-07/op-ed-coronavirus-nature-shutdown-rich | Op-Ed: Enjoying nature during the shutdown is easy — but only if you’re rich | Op-Ed: Enjoying nature during the shutdown is easy — but only if you’re rich
Up a suburban cul de sac a police car prowls, looking for hikers. Down below, immigrant men stand around with no place to go. Marin County, which has 143,000 acres of public lands and 258,000 citizens, has issued an order declaring that anyone... |
b65409bd7f818f3b5429e8ce3b08b004 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-07/protesting-is-a-lot-more-difficult-when-youre-poor-and-have-everything-to-lose | Letters to the Editor: Protesting is a lot more difficult when you’re poor and have everything to lose | Letters to the Editor: Protesting is a lot more difficult when you’re poor and have everything to lose
To the editor: I related to Sandy Banks’ column on the Kent State massacre 50 years ago. Like her, I was from Cleveland, and at the time I was a graduate student at Ohio State.
When the riots started at Ohio State in ... |
b187d046579b46918c8e0669eca325cb | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-07/sweden-coronavirus-response-killing-people | Letters to the Editor: Sweden can’t explain away the fact that its lax coronavirus approach is killing people | Letters to the Editor: Sweden can’t explain away the fact that its lax coronavirus approach is killing people
To the editor: The op-ed article by Karin Olofsdotter, Sweden’s ambassador to the United States, left me incredulous.
Sweden has rejected the procedures adopted by nearly all other European countries to safegua... |
22147fbdc36cb2cc93a28ceac417ea52 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-08/immigration-detention-coronavirus-release | Op-Ed: We were left to sicken and die from the coronavirus in immigration detention. Here’s how I got out | Op-Ed: We were left to sicken and die from the coronavirus in immigration detention. Here’s how I got out
I consider myself an American. I came to the United States from Mexico when I was a teenager. I’m now 37 years old. My wife and son are U.S. citizens. For years, I ran my own mechanic shop in New Jersey. I have pa... |
bd91f73cca41509d98ae32e1c4197c64 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-08/old-americans-shouldnt-have-to-prove-their-value-ageism | Letters to the Editor: Old Americans shouldn’t have to prove their value to combat ageism | Letters to the Editor: Old Americans shouldn’t have to prove their value to combat ageism
To the editor: As a 72-year-old, a bioethicist and a liberal, I read the L.A. Times’ article on ageism surging during the COVID-19 pandemic with mixed feelings.
I was glad to see criticism of age discrimination in allocating scarc... |
0577076267bf3932b91ff40b68e3f30d | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-08/trump-coronavirus-warriors-reopen-economy | Letters to the Editor: Mr. President, protect us with testing. Then we’ll be your coronavirus ‘warriors’ | Letters to the Editor: Mr. President, protect us with testing. Then we’ll be your coronavirus ‘warriors’
To the editor: The lives that President Trump is willing to risk for the economy are mostly those of senior citizens, poor people and people of color. (“Trump calls Americans ‘warriors’ in fight to open the economy,... |
e8a50f31125e5b0188a7f94df8c9b6fc | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-09/agony-of-having-family-in-locked-down-nursing-homes | Letters to the Editor: The agony of having family in locked-down nursing homes | Letters to the Editor: The agony of having family in locked-down nursing homes
To the editor: I have family members in assisted living facilities. As they are across the nation, these facilities are completely locked down to visitors. (“This nursing home had California’s deadliest coronavirus outbreak. ‘We weren’t prep... |
b69eb3722983d752cf2c3997df5875b7 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-09/geezers-dont-have-to-prove-their-worth-to-society | Letters to the Editor: ‘Geezers’ don’t have to prove their worth to society (but they are valuable) | Letters to the Editor: ‘Geezers’ don’t have to prove their worth to society (but they are valuable)
To the editor: Steve Lopez is right to express disgust at calls to sacrifice the elderly and vulnerable for the sake of the economy.
I am one of the “geezers” with an underlying health condition (late-stage cancer). Thou... |
957c0b038e5293a778f9c0e1de886236 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-10/column-trying-to-keep-up-with-school-on-a-shared-phone-proved-daunting-for-two-brothers | Column: Two LAUSD students sharing a cellphone to find math quizzes? That’s not school | Column: Two LAUSD students sharing a cellphone to find math quizzes? That’s not school
When school was dismissed because of the pandemic, 12-year-old Evan, a sixth-grader at 99th Street Elementary School in Watts, used his phone to simulate school as best he could.
“I would find things on the internet like sixth-grade ... |
f7c1a7a916e89ea654c955dada5a1949 | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-10/column-why-did-michael-jordan-never-use-his-giant-megaphone | Column: Why did Michael Jordan never use his giant megaphone? White America didn’t want to hear it | Column: Why did Michael Jordan never use his giant megaphone? White America didn’t want to hear it
By now, you have probably seen the video of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery jogging down a street near his neighborhood in Brunswick, Ga., before being hunted down and confronted by two armed white men. Gunshots can be heard. A... |
0259ce55a45e770c31ce9b4b399a0a8f | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-52061915 | Coronavirus: India 'super spreader' quarantines 40,000 people | Coronavirus: India 'super spreader' quarantines 40,000 people
Indian authorities in the northern state of Punjab have quarantined around 40,000 residents from 20 villages following a Covid-19 outbreak linked to just one man.
The 70-year-old died of coronavirus - a fact found out only after his death.
The man, a preache... |
16b0bb0f86493c113590e31e6adfc1e8 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-56844925 | What is the India Covid variant and will vaccines work? | What is the India Covid variant and will vaccines work?
A coronavirus variant identified in India is being investigated by scientists across the world.
However, it is not yet known how far it has spread or whether it is driving
the deadly second wave of Covid in India itself.
Viruses mutate all the time, producing diff... |
a0c06b0780677237025c448bd5ecdb93 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-56940595 | India Covid: Delhi hospitals plead for oxygen as more patients die | India Covid: Delhi hospitals plead for oxygen as more patients die
Hospitals in Delhi continued to send desperate messages for emergency oxygen supplies through the night on Sunday, warning that patients are at risk.
The crisis started two weeks ago but shows no signs of abating.
At least 12 patients, including a docto... |
5f5f425769a4ff5f3d4b40b698dab18c | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12666701 | China's intimidation of the foreign press | China's intimidation of the foreign press
It wasn't even 6am this morning and Chinese police were knocking at the doors of foreign correspondents based in Beijing, demanding to see press credentials.
The moves are part of what appears to be a concerted campaign launched in recent days to monitor and intimidate foreign ... |
e2f7b18efbd5501a5ea791e2ff8a51fb | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13602589 | China says foreigners stir Inner Mongolia unrest | China says foreigners stir Inner Mongolia unrest
China's Foreign Ministry has claimed that foreigners are stirring up trouble in the province of Inner Mongolia.
Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said attempts cause trouble would not succeed, but she did not specify which foreigners she was talking about.
Last week, hundred... |
43c46730c9db442f94e2bbffb685e948 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13808753 | US helps Vietnam to eradicate deadly Agent Orange | US helps Vietnam to eradicate deadly Agent Orange
Vietnam and the United States have taken the first step towards cleaning up Agent Orange contamination.
The US sprayed 12 million gallons of the defoliant over jungles between 1961 and 1971 during the Vietnam war.
Vietnamese experts say more than three million people ha... |
3ffa9e1f754ce3fefc1a010a2967db64 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-45661871 | ABC boss quits over Australian political interference claims | ABC boss quits over Australian political interference claims
Australia's national broadcaster is facing a leadership crisis following allegations of political interference.
Justin Milne resigned as chair of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) on Thursday, amid allegations he tried to fire journalists who were... |
85267b8f2a5f8061716814f1a9204f7b | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-47742473 | Melbourne's naturally pink lake delights tourists | Melbourne's naturally pink lake delights tourists
A lake in a Melbourne park has naturally turned pink, drawing throngs of admirers keen to snap a rosy picture.
All photographs subject to copyright as marked.
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57509f795f1b68d1b2ca59facc9b3103 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-52953795 | Great white shark kills surfer off Australia's New South Wales | Great white shark kills surfer off Australia's New South Wales
A 3m (10ft) great white shark has killed a surfer in northern New South Wales, police in the Australian state have said.
The shark bit the leg of the surfer, aged between 50 and 60, off Kingscliff, 800km (500 miles) north of Sydney.
Several "heroic" boarder... |
54126bf8810c7624f99a04680b0a008e | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-55913543 | Perth bushfire: Evacuations as dozens of homes destroyed | Perth bushfire: Evacuations as dozens of homes destroyed
Hundreds of Australians have fled to evacuation centres as a bushfire on the outskirts of the locked-down city of Perth continues to grow and threaten communities.
The blaze - the largest the city has seen in years - has burnt through 9,000 hectares, destroying 7... |
b4055ebc034a6e7b3355c9efacd92c13 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-56979429 | Shark attack survivor wins right to keep tooth left in surfboard | Shark attack survivor wins right to keep tooth left in surfboard
An Australian man who was almost killed in an attack by a great white shark has won the right to keep a tooth the animal left wedged in his surfboard.
Surfer Chris Blowes lost his leg and was in a coma for 10 days after he was attacked in South Australia ... |
8ebda653928df98003b25131b925610e | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10707935 | PKK 'would disarm for Kurdish rights in Turkey' | PKK 'would disarm for Kurdish rights in Turkey'
The leader of a Kurdish rebel group engaged in a guerrilla war with Turkey has told the BBC it is willing to disarm in return for greater political and cultural rights for Turkey's Kurds.
The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is designated a terrorist organisation by Turkey,... |
4493d07c1ba682f9fb95df96e7d40825 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10891555 | Bronislaw Komorowski sworn in as Poland's president | Bronislaw Komorowski sworn in as Poland's president
Bronislaw Komorowski has been sworn in as Poland's new president, a month after his election victory.
Mr Komorowski defeated Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the twin brother of the late President Lech Kaczynski, who was killed in a plane crash in April.
In a gesture to Kaczynski ... |
8ac7cf5853e3b9f2b42f35dde2fba137 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11027288 | Q&A: France Roma expulsions | Q&A: France Roma expulsions
France is controversially deporting Romanian and Bulgarian Roma (Gypsies) as part of a crackdown on illegal camps in the country.
The trigger was a clash in July between French Roma and police in the town of Saint Aignan. France's deportations have been widely criticised in the EU.
In July, ... |
b977f0a5274222dda04aafc07e77add4 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11301307 | EU may take legal action against France over Roma | EU may take legal action against France over Roma
EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding has urged the European Commission to take legal action against France over its deportations of Roma (Gypsies).
Ms Reding called French actions a "disgrace". She deplored the fact that a leaked official memo contradicted assurances ... |
11a03dfa8c3040aa88ea7da72c9f477f | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11332189 | Sarkozy denounces EU commissioner's Roma remarks | Sarkozy denounces EU commissioner's Roma remarks
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has described comments by an EU commissioner about Roma deportations from France as "outrageous".
EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding appeared to compare France's actions to persecutions in Nazi-occupied France.
"The disgusting and sha... |
84d9bb616648c10d91fafdbcdd4c2dfb | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11388680 | Kremlin bans sale of S-300 missile systems to Iran | Kremlin bans sale of S-300 missile systems to Iran
The Kremlin has formally banned the sale of S-300 air defence missile systems to Iran three months after new UN sanctions.
A decree was issued by President Dmitry Medvedev prohibiting the sale, which had been in the pipeline for years.
Earlier, Gen Nikolai Makarov, hea... |
b546fc428cf01a9a4e13cc634781fb1e | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11399708?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter | Former EU Commissioners still paid years after leaving | Former EU Commissioners still paid years after leaving
Former European Union commissioners are still being paid thousands of euros a month by the EU up to three years after leaving, it has been revealed.
Sixteen former commissioners are still earning between 40% and 65% of their basic monthly salaries, even though they... |
b95e2bb810dd4949044e1367eafd0f21 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11424183 | Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov sacked by President Medvedev | Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov sacked by President Medvedev
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has fired Moscow's powerful mayor, Yuri Luzhkov.
Mr Luzhkov, 74, was being removed because he had lost "the trust of the president of the Russian Federation", a presidential decree said.
In recent weeks Mr Luzhkov - who has been in... |
5d9e7c53a6b52376475f07e6f2a7db6c | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11704720 | House of the Gladiators collapses in Pompeii | House of the Gladiators collapses in Pompeii
A house in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii has collapsed, raising concerns about Italy's state support for its archaeological heritage.
The House of the Gladiators was found in ruins when curators came to open the site to visitors early on Saturday.
Partially rebuilt after... |
f223ad366bed382cdf5b322a4e4b26be | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11923556 | Continental 'responsible' for Concorde crash in 2000 | Continental 'responsible' for Concorde crash in 2000
A Paris court has said Continental Airlines was "criminally responsible" for the crash of a Concorde supersonic jet 10 years ago, and fined it 200,000 euros (£170,000).
It has also been ordered to pay 1m euros to the jet's operator Air France.
A Continental mechanic,... |
7c14ccb30134fa667d6199c29bd018be | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12051667 | Montenegro Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic resigns | Montenegro Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic resigns
Montenegro's Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic, the longest-serving leader in the Balkans, has resigned.
"The conditions have been created for me to step down," he said, adding that he would stay "at the helm of the Democratic Party of Socialists".
This month Montenegro ac... |
c10dfba7a950e0d6c8277b8a75b82089 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12091475 | 'No Anorexia' model Isabelle Caro dies aged 28 | 'No Anorexia' model Isabelle Caro dies aged 28
A French model who posed nude for an anti-anorexia campaign while suffering from the illness herself has died at the age of 28, her colleagues confirm.
Isabelle Caro died on 17 November after being treated for an acute respiratory illness, Swiss singer Vincent Bigler told ... |
c2f375eba41edef7f74e3c3fe4ef74eb | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12106856 | Germany calls up last conscripts as army is reformed | Germany calls up last conscripts as army is reformed
Germany's final batch of conscripts are beginning their military service ahead of a radical overhaul of the country's armed forces.
Some 12,000 recruits have been called up - the last before conscription ends altogether on 1 July.
The German government is seeking to ... |
77b10834680a2f0139d144139c64b138 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12179688 | Germany acid tanker capsizes on Rhine: two missing | Germany acid tanker capsizes on Rhine: two missing
A tanker carrying 2,400 tonnes of sulphuric acid has sunk on the Rhine river in Germany and police say two crew members are missing.
The tanker's other two crew were rescued, according to the authorities.
The barge capsized near St Goarshausen, south of Koblenz. Offic... |
59aa7e7d734526dcc5b5ef3604d99a84 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12321549 | John Demjanjuk guilty of Nazi death camp murders | John Demjanjuk guilty of Nazi death camp murders
A German court has found John Demjanjuk guilty of helping to murder more than 28,000 Jews at a Nazi death camp in World War II.
He was sentenced to five years in prison, one year less than prosecutors had asked for, but will be released pending a possible appeal.
Prosecu... |
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