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Arctic Sea breaking up for first time
24 Aug 2018
The oldest and thickest sea ice in the Arctic has started breaking up, opening waters north of Greenland that are normally frozen, even in summer. This phenomenon, never previously recorded, is due to warm winds and…
USA: Trump under pressure
24 Aug 2018
Donald Trump's former personal attorney and ‘fixer’ pleaded guilty to eight felony counts, including two that implicate President Trump and Paul Manafort, President Trump's former campaign chairman who was found guilty on eight counts in a…
Venezuela: financial crunch, earthquake
24 Aug 2018
On 22 August Venezuela’s northern coast was rocked by a 7.3 magnitude earthquake felt across the Caribbean and hundreds of kilometres away in Caracas where political leaders were celebrating their new economic plan to rescue the…
Facebook removes Russian and Iranian accounts
24 Aug 2018
Facebook has identified and banned groups and pages engaged in misleading political behaviour and removed 652 pages, groups, and accounts linked to Russia and Iran, for ‘coordinated inauthentic behaviour’ that included the sharing of political material.…
Australia: yet another change of PM
24 Aug 2018
On 24 August, after a bitter row that has thrust the country's political landscape into turmoil, Australia’s Liberal party named finance minister Scott Morrison as the country's new leader, after he emerged victorious from a three-way…
In June we prayed for the Christian film Voices of the Silenced to influence today's culture - see But on the eve of its premiere Vue Cinemas refused to screen it. Dr Mike Davidson, who produced…