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OND is a regular community feature on Daily Kos, consisting of news stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with a daily theme, original research or commentary. Editors of OND impart their own presentation styles and content choices, typically publishing each day near 12:00 AM Eastern Time.
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News from the UK first, although not Brexit news (spoiler alert: it still is a mess). This story led the evening news tonight (this comes from the Guardian):
Royal continues fight with UK newspapers after attacking treatment of his wife, Meghan
Jim Waterson and Caroline Davies
Prince Harry has issued legal proceedings against the owners of the Sun and the Daily Mirror over alleged phone hacking, in an escalation of his all-out war with the British newspaper industry.
The decision follows Harry’s strongly worded attack on the British media’s treatment of his wife, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.
Buckingham Palace confirmed claims had been filed at the high court regarding alleged illegal interception of voicemail messages. News Group, which published the News of the World until its closure as well as the Sun, confirmed a claim had been issued.
From the BBC:
Burger King has apologised to a blind woman with a food allergy after she was told staff were not allowed to read out a list of ingredients to her.
Medina Hall had gone to the Folkestone branch of the burger chain and told staff about her nut allergy.
She said she was told staff could give her a menu but company policy meant customers had to read it themselves.
From Sky News:
Hospital bosses say medics "will continue to provide Tafida with the best possible care" until she is transferred to Italy.
A couple have cleared the final hurdle in their bid to move their severely disabled daughter to Italy after hospital bosses dropped an appeal.
A High Court judge ruled on Thursday that five-year-old Tafida Raqeeb's parents could move her to the Gaslini children's hospital in Genoa.
Officials at the Royal London Hospital, where Tafida is being treated, said they were considering an appeal.
Also from the BBC:
By Becca Bryers
Whenever I visit a new city on holiday, I always take a guided tour to get a feel for the place and its history. But what would I discover if I took a trip around my home town?
The idea came to me while making the latest episode of the BBC podcast Multi Story which was themed around hidden history. It got me wondering what I might be overlooking in Loughborough, a place I thought I knew inside out.
From France, via The Independent:
Investigators search attacker's computer and mobile phone for indications of motive
Sylvie Corbet
There is nothing to suggest that the employee who stabbed four colleagues to death at Paris’ police headquarters was radicalised, the French government has said.
Investigators are searching for possible motives for the knife attack on Thursday.
The assailant, a 45-year-old technology administrator in the intelligence unit of the Paris police, was shot dead after the attack.
From the BBC:
Environmentalists are offering a €30,000 ($32,950; £26,789) reward for information about the presumed death of a wolf in Belgium.
Last year, the wolf - named Naya - became the first to be sighted in Belgium for a century.
But local nature agencies said neither she nor her cubs had been spotted since May, and suggested batteries on her tracking collar had worn down.
Several nature groups have blamed hunters for their disappearance.
From The Guardian:
As part of new strategy, the Netherlands will be official name at Eurovision in May
Daniel Boffey
The Dutch government has decided to stop describing itself as Holland and will instead use only its real name – the Netherlands – as part of an attempted update of its global image.
The national rebranding, which has been signed up to by business leaders, the tourist board and central government, will be rolled out later this year.
Also from The Guardian:
Pedro Sánchez confuses prized jamón ibérico for plain old jamón serrano in ‘serious error’
Stephen Burgen
Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has confused jamón ibérico, the prized Spanish ham, with run-of-the-mill jamón serrano in a gaffe on a par with a French politician referring to a fine burgundy as plonk.
Speaking at the centuries-old livestock fair in Zafra in Extremadura, western Spain, Sánchez left his audience open-mouthed when he told them “you can be sure that when the Chinese president visited Spain he would have been served a plate of jamón serrano from Extremadura”.
A video from Deutsche Welle (follow the link):
Over 70 years ago the Red Army captured Berlin, ending the Nazi regime. But the fate of thousands of soldiers who fought in the battles of WW2 is still not known. Volunteers are now trying to locate their remains so they can be buried with dignity.
Also from Deutsche Welle:
Beer, brass bands, party: Amid all the fun, women are more aware of sexual harassment at the Oktoberfest following #MeToo. Here are some of a flower seller's tricks to avoid groping while working on the Wiesn.
For my two weeks selling roses at the Oktoberfest, every day starts with a ritual shared by many other women working on the Wiesn: Put on make-up, a low-cut blouse and stockings, and then the traditional dirndl dress. Bind the apron strings on the left or right, depending on your relationship status.
As a final touch, tie a traditional costume scarf around your neck, make sure your cleavage shows and pull on tight, padded cycling shorts underneath the dress.
And one last from DW:
A German drunk driver racked up an impressive array of charges, starting when he was caught speeding and turned around to steal the camera, mistakenly believing that all police records were stored within the unit.
A German man has been charged with various offenses after a drunken adventure on Thursday morning, German Unity Day, a national holiday in Germany.
Driving home from festivities at around 7 a.m., the young man reached 160 kmh (almost 100 mph) in a 100 kmh limit zone in the Bavarian district of Deggendorf, near the Czech border, according to a police press release.
From the BBC:
A Russian man has launched a lawsuit against Apple, claiming an iPhone app turned him gay.
He says this comes after an incident involving GayCoin crypto-currency.
Saying he suffered moral harm, he is asking for one million rubles (£12,000), according to a copy of the complaint seen by the news agency, AFP.
And from VOA:
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By Jamie Dettmer
MOSCOW - The three Moscow mothers whose children are suffering from cancer were united in two things, their reluctance to allow their names to be published, and their mounting anger at the deterioration in Russia’s public health services, which they say threatens their children's lives.
They had wanted to attend a midweek press conference to demonstrate their support for a team of pediatric oncologists who have quit their jobs at a Moscow clinic, one of Russia’s best cancer hospitals, to protest overcrowded wards, pay cuts and an “optimization reform” doctors say is affecting their ability to treat patients.
And arts news:
From the Sun:
Banksy’s most famous art – from the Parliament chimpanzees to There is Always Hope
BANKSY is an elusive British graffiti artist whose real identity has never been revealed but his works now sell for several million pounds each.
The world-famous artist usually creates his street art under the cover of darkness but we look at some of his greatest works.
From The Guardian:
Thierry Noir says his work is a warning not to be complacent about hard-won freedoms
Esther Addley
When Thierry Noir moved to west Berlin in the early 1980s, he found himself living next to the Wall, a menacing and at the time dreary three-metre barrier dividing the two halves of the city. “It was a melancholic place, day by day, nothing happened really. That life was putting me in a kind of isolation, and I began to think, I have to resist that because I am going crazy. So I had a need to paint the wall, just to do something against it.”
From Nottinghamshire Live:
We will be left with 'practically worthless pictures and sculpture when the bubble bursts'
It - and most of the other words that describe people with a great deal of knowledge about art, cuisine and wine - are French, if not Italian. Long before and long after the French revolution of 1789 the British looked to fashionable France for inspiration. This collective inferiority complex was manifest everywhere, but especially in the taste of the monarchy and aristocracy.
In our time as rarely before, 'expert judges' and politicians clash with dramatic effect when the boundaries of an unwritten constitution are ruled upon and the cherished separation of powers is perceived to be changing. But judges, from magistrates to Supreme Court justices, decide on the available evidence; whereas everyone else takes their view on such ‘evidence’ they’ve received second-hand, usually from the media.
And finally, from Pink News:
You’ll definitely be familiar with the work of Robert Indiana, even if you don’t recognise his name.
The American artist was central to the pop art movement of the 1960s and is best known for his most famous print, “LOVE”.
Rumoured to have inspired John Lennon to write “
All You Need Is Love“, the word has been reprinted on everything from posters, cards and postage stamps to cushions, fridge magnets and doormats – partly because he failed to properly copyright the image.