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How Many Players Are Participating In Zim Afro T10 2023

Afro T10 is an upcoming T10 cricket league that will be played in Harare, Zimbabwe, starting on 20th July 2023. The league is owned by T10 Sports Management and is organised in association with ZC or Zimbabwe Cricket (previously known as the Zimbabwe Cricket Union).

It follows the T10 cricket format; each team plays ten overs and the match lasts approximately 90 minutes. The inaugural edition of the Zim Afro T10 2023, will feature five teams; Bulawayo Braves, Harare Hurricanes, Durban Qalandars, Joburg Buffaloes, and Cape Town Samp Army. Be prepared to see their names across all Cricket News channels!

Without further ado, let’s meet all the players that will play in this year's Zim Afro T10 League, that's capturing Sports News Headlines everywhere. We expect this cricketing event to dominate major Sports Headlines in the cricketing world, everywhere!

Meet The Zim Afro T10 League 2023 Squad

Ever since its announcement, Zim Afro T20 has been capturing Sports Headlines everywhere and is expected to tune in millions of cricket fans across the globe.

Starting on 20th July, we all will have just one question on our minds- Who Will Win Today’s Match? To know your answers, make sure to tune in to the Zim Afro matches that will telecast on the Sports18 TV channel in India or steam it live on the JioCinema app. Don't worry if you miss the match, as you can always get your Latest Sports News from the fastest cricket live score update platform, SportsBuzz.

Be prepared to see all these faces splashed across all Sports News channels, starting tomorrow!

Bulawayo Braves

Sikander Raza,Taskin Ahmed, Ashton Turner,Tymal Mills, Thisara Perera, Ben McDermott Beau Webster, Patrick Dooley, Kobe Herft, Ryan Burl, Timycen Maruma, Joylord Gumbie, Innocent Kai, Faraz Akram, Mujeeb Ur Rehman

Cape Town Samp Army

Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Shaun Williams, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Mahesh Theekshana Sheldon Cottrel, Karim Janat, Chamika Karunaratne, Peter Hazlogou, Matthew Breetzke Richard Ngarava, Zhuwao Cephas, Hamilton Masakadza, Tadshwani Marumani Tinashe Kamunakewe, Parthiv Patel, Mohamed Irfan, Stuart Binny

Durban Qalandars

Asif Ali, Mohammed Amir, George Linde, Hazratullah Zazai, Tim Sifert, Sisanda Magala, Hilton Cartwright, Mirza Thahir Baig, Tayab Abbas, Craig Ervin, Tendai Chatara Brad Evans, Clive Madande, Nick Welch, Andre Fletcher

Johannesburg Buffaloes

Mushfiqur Rahim, Odean Smith, Tom Banton, Yusuf Pathan, Will Smeed, Noor Ahmad Ravi Bopara, Usman Shinwari, Junior Dala, Blessing Muzarabani, Wellington Masakadza Wesley Madhevere, Victor Nyauchi, Milton Shumba, Mohamed Hafeez, Rahul Chopra

Harare Hurricanes

Eoin Morgan, Mohamed Nabi, Evin Lewis, Robin Uthappa, Donovon Ferraira Shahzawaz Dahani, Duan Jansen, Samit Patel, Kevin Kothegoda,  Christopher Mpofu, Regis Chakabva, Luke Jongwe, Brandon Mavuta Tashinga Mushiwa, Irfan Pathan, Khalid Shah, S Sreesanth

Did any of your favourite players make it to the team? 

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Danai Jekesai Gurira (born February 14, 1978) is a Zimbabwean-American actress and playwright. She is known for her starring roles in The Walking Dead, Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame. She is the playwright of the Broadway play Eclipsed, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play. She has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play, In The Continuum, which she co-wrote and starred in. She was born in Grinnell, Iowa to Josephine Gurira, a college librarian, and Roger Gurira, a tenured professor in the Department of Chemistry at Grinnell College (both parents later joined the staff of the University of Wisconsin–Platteville). She lived in Grinnell until age five she and her family moved back to Harare, Zimbabwe, after the country gained independence. She returned to the US to study at Macalester College, graduating with a BA in Psychology. She earned a MA in acting from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She taught playwriting and acting in Liberia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. She performed in a production of the Ntozake Shange play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf”. She appeared at the Global Green Sustainable Design Awards to read a letter written by a New Orleans native displaced by Hurricane Katrina. She co-founded Almasi Arts, an organization dedicated to continuing arts education in Zimbabwe. She serves as the Executive Artistic Director. She signed an open letter begun by the ONE Campaign. She founded the non-profit organization Love Our Girls, which aims to highlight the issues and challenges that specifically affect women throughout the world. She partnered with Johnson & Johnson in the fight against HIV/AIDS. She was announced as a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador. As a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador, she dedicates her support to putting a spotlight on gender equality and women's rights. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/CopQgRgrnHb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Robin Uthappa’s brilliance helps Harare Hurricanes register big win against Durban Qalandars Harare, 26th July, 2023: The Harare Hur... #usa #uk

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ZIM Afro T10 League 2023: Complete Schedule, Full Fixtures List, Match Timings and Venues

The important-awaited Zim Afro T10 League 2023, the initial edition of the event, is set to take place from July 20 to July 29, 2023. The league will feature five brigades – Bulawayo Braves, Cape Town Samp Army, Durban Qalandars, Harare Hurricanes, and Joburg Buffaloes – contending against each other in the thrilling T10 format. All matches of the event will be played at the iconic…

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Headlines

At UN, Trump attacks globalism, urges pressure on Iran (AP) President Donald Trump took center stage at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday to deliver a strong defense of nationalism while exhorting the world to act against Iran’s “bloodlust” and rising aggression. The president called on the global leaders seated before him to join the U.S. in further isolating Tehran, pushing them to use economic sanctions to pressure Iran to give up its nuclear program and stop attacks that are rattling the Middle East.

It’s official (Bloomberg) U.S. President Donald Trump pledged he would release the transcript of a July telephone call with the president of Ukraine in a last ditch effort to head off the growing furor over allegations he sought foreign help to smear former Vice President Joseph Biden. It didn’t work. At the close of business, Speaker Nancy Pelosi made it official: The House is moving forward with a formal impeachment inquiry.

Puerto Rico braces for flooding, landslides from Karen (AP) Tropical Storm Karen began drenching the U.S. Virgin Islands on Tuesday while bearing down on an earthquake-shaken Puerto Rico still scarred by a hurricane two years ago. U.S. Virgin Islands Gov. Albert Bryan Jr. said the storm had already caused mudslides in the territory and major power outages were reported early Tuesday. Schools and government offices were already ordered closed in Puerto Rico as well as in the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, with officials warning people to stay indoors.

As police shootings in Rio rise, children are caught in the crossfire (Washington Post) Years into a violent experiment to restore order to one of the world’s most dangerous cities, one grim consequence is dead children. Between 2011 and 2017, the most recent year for which demographic data on police killings is available, the number of children and adolescents killed in a police shootout in Rio de Janeiro state more than tripled, from 55 to 193. In 2017, research shows, 1 in 4 teenage homicides was committed during a police operation.

British Supreme Court rules that Boris Johnson broke the law (Foreign Policy) The British Supreme Court ruled today that Prime Minister Boris Johnson broke the law when he asked Queen Elizabeth to suspend Parliament “because it had the effect of frustrating or preventing the ability of Parliament to carry out its constitutional functions without reasonable justification.” In a strongly-worded unanimous judgment responding to a series of cases brought by the anti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller and others, the 11 justices ruled that Johnson’s move was “unlawful, void and of no effect and should be quashed.” The court left it to House of Commons Speaker John Bercow to decide how and when to reconvene, but made it very clear that in the eyes of the law, “Parliament has not been prorogued.” Bercow called on lawmakers to “convene without delay.”

After Thomas Cook collapse, U.K. launches largest peacetime repatriation operation (Washington Post) British travel company Thomas Cook declared bankruptcy Monday, stranding hundreds of thousands of holiday-makers and prompting the British government to initiate what it is calling the largest peacetime repatriation in the nation’s history. The effort, dubbed Operation Matterhorn, aims to fly 150,000 travelers who were booked on Thomas Cook flights back home to Britain. The mammoth task is expected to cost more than $120 million, said the U.K. Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).

Pakistan PM Warns of War With India Over Disputed Kashmir (AP) Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan warned in blunt terms Tuesday of possible war between Pakistan and India over what he called a brutal Indian crackdown in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.

If Beijing can do it (Foreign Policy) New Delhi is planning to set up what will become one of the world’s largest facial recognition systems--a boon for surveillance companies, Bloomberg reports. The new program would link to the country’s passport and fingerprint databases, and it has raised privacy concerns. Bidding opens next month.

China Opens New Beijing Airport to Serve Travel Boom (AP) Chinese President Xi Jinping presided Wednesday over the inauguration of a second international airport for Beijing with a terminal billed as the world’s biggest.

Hong Kong leader says police under extreme pressure (Reuters) Carrie Lam said the city’s police force, which has been accused of beating activists and using excessive force during protests, is under extreme pressure and acknowledged it will be a “long road” toward healing rifts.

Hundreds of Students, Police Injured in Indonesia Protests (AP) More than 300 university students and police in Indonesia’s capital have been treated at hospitals after clashes during protests sparked by a new law that critics say cripples the country’s anti-corruption agency, police said Wednesday.

Marshall Islands Confirms Diplomatic Support for Taiwan (AP) The Marshall Islands has confirmed its support for Taiwan after two other small Pacific Island nations switched their diplomatic allegiance to China.

The Syria ‘safe zone’ (Foreign Policy) Despite a joint-patrolled security zone on the border between Turkey and northeast Syria, Syrian Kurds say they fear that the increase in Turkish troops could be a sign of a future assault on the country’s Kurdish minority. They’re also worried about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s plan to resettle Syrian refugees in the area.

A looming water crisis in Zimbabwe (Foreign Policy) On Monday, Harare closed its main water treatment plant because the Zimbabwean government lacked the foreign currency needed to import chemicals. The shutdown could leave the capital city without water and raise the risk of diseases like cholera. The water crisis comes as Zimbabwe grapples with rampant inflation.

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Toronto the Good Under Fire

CONTENTS: SEPTEMBER 16TH, 2018

1. What’s Going On: Top Stories from Each Corner of the Globe

2. Opinion: Toronto the Good Under Fire

3. For Your Earholes

What’s Going On: 

Top Stories from Each Corner of the Globe

The Centre of the Universe:

Toronto Election Chaos - Premier Doug Ford is plowing ahead with the passage of controversial Bill 5, which will shrink City Council from 47 to 25 members just a month before the election. While an Ontario Superior Court judge recently struck a nearly identical bill down, citing that it violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Ford is utilizing the rarely exercised Notwithstanding Clause to exempt this legislation from judicial review. The city has instructed it’s lawyer to “exhaust all avenues” in fighting the bill.

More Gun Violence - A 16 year old boy was shot dead in the city’s east end on Friday evening. Toronto has faced record-breaking levels of gun violence this year, this being the 77th homicide of 2018.

North America:

NAFTA Negotiations - Mexico and the US have informally agreed on a new framework for NAFTA, which will be dubbed the United States-Mexico-Canada agreement as a result of a Trump rebranding scheme. Canadian and American negotiators are still partaking in ongoing talks in an effort to maintain the trilateral nature of the agreement. Trump has, and continues to threaten that he will move forward without Canada if the Trudeau government is unwilling to make satisfactory concessions. Congress must approve any agreement, so the midterm elections on November 6th may shake things up if the Democrats manage to take the House and/or Senate.

Hurricane Florence - Hurricane Florence is railing the Carolinas, and thus far has left 12 dead along with extensive damage to property. A disaster was declared in North Carolina on Saturday, as heavy rain and further flooding are projected in the coming days.

Latin America:

Venezuelan Crisis - Economic travesty in the South American nation continues to force millions to flee into neighboring countries. Venezuelan leader Nicolas Mauro has reached out to Chinese President Xi Jinping for assistance.

Chaotic Brazilian Election - Jailed former left-wing leader Lula pulled out of the Brazilian election, appointing Fernando Haddad as his replacement. To add to the drama of the campaign, right-wing leader Jair Bolsonaro was stabbed at a rally. He has soared in polls since the incident and is presently recovering in hospital.

Europe:

Russian War Games - In the eastern part of the nation, Russia, China and Mongolia coordinated Russia’s largest military exercises ever.

Right Wing Movement - Far-right groups continue to gain popularity across Europe. This week, the right leaning interior ministers of Italy and Austria demanded that the EU hold asylum-seekers at sea until their claims have been processed.

Africa:

Rwandan Opposition Leader Released - Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, a prominent opposition leader was released from prison along with 2,100 other wrongfully imprisoned inmates.

Cholera Outbreak in Zimbabwe Capital - 25 people have now succumbed to cholera in Harare, while 3,766 cases have been confirmed according to Health Minister Obadiah Moyo. The WHO warns that the disease is spreading rapidly, putting the more than 2 million people that call Harare home at risk.

Asia:

Typhoon Mangkhut - A category 5 typhoon slammed the Philippines, killing 14 people. Landslides, flooding, and extensive damage have been reported across the island of Luzon.

Chinese Detainment of Uighur Muslims - Analysts estimate that up to 1.1 million people have been placed in internment camps in China’s western province. Chinese officials claim that these are education centres, but escapees tell tales of violence and abuse.

Oceana:

Protest of Aussie Anthem - A 9 year old girl named Harper Nielsen made headlines when she protested the Australian national anthem by refusing to stand for it in school. Nielsen based her stand on the notion that the anthem is racist for ignoring the Indigenous history of Australia.

Opinion: Toronto the Good Under Fire

Toronto the Good - an endearing, often sarcastic nickname for the city that derives from it’s high brow history. Although the term is commonly used ironically, I would argue that it has come adequately represent it, especially when you compare the state of Toronto to American cities.

The Greater Toronto Area is of similar approximate size to the Boston, Philadelphia, Houston, and Dallas metropolitan areas. Yet, it has significantly lower crime rates, and far less poignant inequality.

Why could that be?

I’ll get to that answer in a minute, but for now it must be pointed out that the current wave of gun violence sweeping the city is threatening Toronto’s status as a safe place that is seemingly immune to the growing pains that American cities usually go through; and not in the way that you would expect.

Obviously there is a direct correlation between gun violence and safety, I’m not trying to deny that. Yes, there is presently a higher risk that you’ll get shot walking around popular areas of the city than normal.

What needs to be acknowledged though, is that with each shooting, calls to ‘crackdown’ on crime by increasing police presence, and introducing stricter sentencing grow. Herein lies the real threat.

If political leaders cave to these demands, we risk following the same path that has been taken by countless American cities, countless times. To decrease gun violence you need to use the carrot and not the stick, though the stick is a natural reflex.

First, simply increasing police presence does not necessarily result in a decrease in crime. In fact, a 1972 Kansas City experiment doubled patrols in several areas, and stopped them in others to test this very idea. They found that this had no significant effect on crime rates in any of the districts. Admittedly, other studies have found a correlation between more police and less crime, but this pattern can usually attributed to more effective policing methods, rather than more police.

Additionally, there is an overwhelming academic consensus that introducing stricter sentencing does not curb crime. What both of these things undeniably do though, is cost taxpayers dearly.

Contrary to one’s natural reaction, the violence gripping the city should be viewed as a cry for help that rises from marginalized communities struggling to get by courtesy of Toronto’s increasing lack of affordability.

Rather than marching through neighborhoods with guns and armour, we should be extending a proverbial loving hand. This can be done by dealing with affordable housing issues, providing more opportunities for lower-income families, and investing in community infrastructure such as sporting facilities. When dwellings in Toronto’s worst-off neighborhoods are converted from houses to homes, where people have a future, violence will inevitably decrease.

To all the doubters I say this; the reason that Toronto is so much safer than American cities, is because of a better social safety net. Thus, to fix the gun violence problem, we need to modernize the social safety net so that it meets the demands of modern Toronto life.

A law enforcement crackdown will only divert funds from going where they are needed.

For Your Earholes: Tunes for the week.

Bassackwards - Kurt Vile

Pretty Thing - Dizzy

Passed Out - Pkew Pkew Pkew

Better - Khalid

Squeeze - Lou Phelps

She Ain’t Gotta Do Much - Classified

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Robert Mugabe, Roy Moore, Republican Party: Your Weekend Briefing

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Robert Mugabe, Roy Moore, Republican Party: Your Weekend Briefing

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3. Details continue to emerge about Russia’s multipronged effort to sway the 2016 presidential election, including its attempts to enlist the Trump campaign. The latest: A top Russian official made a backdoor offer to set up a meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, which Jared Kushner, above, ultimately rejected.

Under questioning by Congress, Attorney General Jeff Sessions repeatedly claimed not to have been lying in the past, but said news accounts had now jogged his memory about a campaign aide’s offer to arrange a similar meeting.

Separately, he has begun considering appointing a special counsel to investigate allegations about Hillary Clinton, a potential bow to White House pressure that our correspondent says “would shatter post-Watergate norms.”

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4. Negotiators at the U.N. climate conference in Bonn, Germany, hammered out the beginnings of a “rule book” to chart progress in scaling back carbon emissions. It didn’t seem to square with the urgency expressed by the German chancellor, who called climate change “an issue determining our destiny as mankind.” (An overview of our Bonn coverage is here.)

South Dakota faced a more immediate concern: a 210,000-gallon oil leak, above, from the Keystone Pipeline, which carries crude from Canada. It came just days before Nebraska’s regulators are to decide whether to give final approval to a different, controversial pipeline, Keystone XL, which would be operated by the same company.

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5. A political whirlwind in Zimbabwe shook loose Africa’s longest-serving strongman and is sending echoes across the continent.

Thousands marched on Saturday in Harare, the capital, to urge a full transition away from the ousted leader, Robert Mugabe, 93. Above, Mr. Mugabe in 2012 with his wife, Grace, a significant player in Zimbabwe’s politics who has also been sidelined. Another strongman, known as the Crocodile, is more than eager to fill the power vacuum.

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On a separate note, the Trump administration paused a decision related to Zimbabwe that set off an international uproar: allowing U.S. hunters to bring home trophies from elephant hunts there.

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6. Speaking of trophies: “Salvator Mundi,” a 26-inch-tall oil painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, sold for a stunning $450.3 million — the most ever paid at an art auction. And that was despite its damaged condition and questionable authenticity. (Our critic says it’s no Mona Lisa.)

The buyer’s identity remains unknown.

The takeaway for the rest of us: marketing! And the recognition that art figures as much as stocks in financiers’ portfolios.

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7. An exhaustive, on-the-ground investigation presented in The Times Magazine reveals that the U.S.-led coalition is killing far more Iraqi civilians than previously acknowledged in its “precision” air campaign against the Islamic State — 31 times more, in fact.

At the same time, Iraq is trying to come to grips with the number of those killed by the Islamic State. At least 70 mass graves have been found. Our new Baghdad bureau chief shares the story of an Iraqi shepherd left to bury the bodies of his neighbors.

Neighboring Iran continues to pick up the pieces after suffering the world’s most deadly earthquake this year.

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8. There’s a new Great Migration.

Puerto Ricans are turning up in droves in Florida, particularly Orlando, in a post-Hurricane Maria exodus so large it rivals those from New Orleans to Houston after Hurricane Katrina and from Cuba to Miami during the Mariel boatlift. Many are staying with friends and family, above.

Back on the island, the state of constant uncertainty caused by a faltering power grid and a flimsy economy has unleashed a mental health crisis.

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“When it starts raining, they have episodes of anxiety because they think their house is going to flood again,” said a clinical psychologist. “They have heart palpitations, sweating, catastrophic thoughts. They think ‘I’m going to drown,’ ‘I’m going to die,’ ‘I’m going to lose everything.’”

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9. “Saturday Night Live” took aim at Al Franken, an alumnus of the show, over a 2006 photo showing him with his hands extended over a sleeping woman’s breasts.

“Sure, this was taken before Franken ran for public office, but it was also taken after he was a sophomore in high school,” Colin Jost said on “Weekend Update.” “It’s pretty hard to be like, ‘Oh, come on, he didn’t know any better. He was only 55.’”

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10. Finally, single men in China are turning to a distinctly 21st-century coach for a leg up in the dating scene. In a country where last year men outnumbered women by 33.6 million, the “Fall in Love Emotional Education” school offers instruction in grooming, dressing and, critically, making an approach.

The school’s founder says 90 percent of its graduates, who are trained in personal style (“sleeves should be folded up above the elbow”) and the art of the pensive profile picture, end up with girlfriends.

Have a great week.

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Alaska’s Sea Ice Completely Melted for First Time in Recorded History

“Even if we can’t escape its consequences, it is not too late to escape the mindset that brought us here.” —Alice O’Keeffe, reviewing This Is Not a Drill

Alaska, the largest US state, with a coastline almost as large as the rest of the continental united states itself, has reached a new low of zero percent sea ice for the first time in recorded history. But the indigenous people, are not alone in their grief.

The country of Iceland has held a funeral for its first glacier lost to the climate crisis. The once massive Okjökull glacier, now completely gone, has been commemorated with a plaque that reads: “A letter to the future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it.”

This reality is reverberating across the globe, far beyond Iceland. Even when no literal funeral is being held, we are, in a sense, witnessing an ongoing funeral for the world we once knew.

July was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth since record keeping began in 1880. Nine out of the 10 hottest Julys ever recorded have occurred since 2005, and July was the 43rd consecutive July in a row, to register temperatures above the 20th century average.

In Greenland, scientists were stunned by how rapidly the ice sheet is melting, as it was revealed the ice there was not expected to melt like this until 2070. The melt rate has been called “unprecedented,” as the all-time single-day melt record was broken in August as the ice sheet lost a mind-bending 12.5 billion tons of water in one day. It is worth remembering that the Greenland ice sheet contains enough ice to increase global sea levels by 20 feet, and it is now predicted that it will lose more ice this year than ever before. The massive amount of freshwater mixing with the warmer salt water has be so vast, this it has started to disrupt the north atlantic current.  And because this current also affects the winds, because of it’s size. This seems to be one of the key contributing factors to the ‘heat dome‘ events that have been plaguing Europe for the past 2 summers.  These heat domes can become a massive driver of extreme weather events, because they create larger differences in temperature, which is the engine of extreme weather systems. Scientists have yet to confirm this possible feedback loop which is the direct result of melting glaciers, which have seen unprecedented acceleration.  

Also for the first time in recorded history, Alaska’s sea ice has melted completely away. That means there was no sea ice whatsoever within 150 miles of its shores, according to the National Weather Service, as the northernmost state cooked under record-breaking heat through the summer.

Earth

A recent UN report estimates 2 billion people are already facing moderate to severe food insecurity, due largely to the warming planet. The other contributing factors are conflict and economic stagnation, Extreme weather events and shifting weather patterns are a large and growing contributor to this crisis, which is sure to escalate over time.

Another recent study, titled “Adaptive responses of animals to climate change are most likely insufficient,” showed that many animals are no longer able to adjust quickly enough to the climate crisis. While birds are laying their eggs earlier as temperatures and conditions change, and are doing what they can to coax their chicks to hatch sooner, it is still not enough to keep apace with the dramatically shifting climate. Many more extinctions are on the horizon.

Speaking of, Beluga whales in the Arctic are now clearly in a downward spiral toward their demise, due largely to climate crisis impacts, according to another study. Warming waters, lack of food, and pollution are taking their toll on the embattled whales. Over the past 20 years, their growth rates have been declining, which means their ability to forage for food is now also compromised.

It is interesting to see even mainstream outlets like People Magazine now reporting on climate grief, which the medical community has already been doing for quite some time, and expects to see a dramatic ramping up of climate-disruption-related mental health issues in the future.

In Greenland, residents are already traumatized by climate impacts, as they are coping with the reality that their traditional ways of life are clearly on the way out. Courtney Howard, board president of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, told The Guardian that she believes the climate crisis is causing worsening states of mental and physical health around the world, and says these issues will become some of the most important of our time. “Temperature change is magnified in circumpolar regions,” she told The Guardian. “There is no question Arctic people are now showing symptoms of anxiety, ‘ecological grief’ and even post-traumatic stress related to the effects of climate change.”

In the financial realms, a leading economic historian warned recently that the climate crisis could very well become the trigger for the next global financial crisis by way of causing instability and massive disruptions in markets.

Distressingly, a recently published study warned that a new super bug which erupted at the same time on three continents may well have been brought about from warming temperatures. The study pointed out how a drug-resistant fungal disease has now been made more prevalent by existing on a warming planet.

A recent report from Canada warned that British Columbia could see “catastrophic” consequences from climate disruption-related events in the next three decades. These include more severe wildfire seasons, increasingly intense and longer heat waves, water shortages, and storm surges across the province. Along with already experiencing disruptions

Speaking of Canada, that country’s Pediatric Society recently warned that children’s health is expected to be increasingly negatively affected by climate-disruption impacts, including things like air pollution and heat stress.

Water

Drought-induced blackouts are now besetting the people of Zimbabwe, where some places are seeing 18 hours per day without electricity. Imagine that in the summer heat. Dams providing hydro power lack water. Power blackouts are spreading.

In Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital city, the taps have run dry, affecting more than 2 million people, who have been trying to cope with not having access to municipal drinking water.

In India, a stunning 1 million people were displaced and at least 270 killed by severe flooding from heavier than usual monsoon rains.

Not all the news is bad though, China has actually seen an increase in rainfall, amazingly just in the areas with large farmlands. Well, not so amazingly, this unilateral geoengineering has had some, lets say interesting side effects. While also being the primary driver of Chinese development of Xinjiang because the home of this weather modification system mostly spans the Tibetan platue, from where their chosen leader, the Dalai Lama, still lives in exile in India.  And has led to the human rights violations of some 1 million ugihur. But hey, that is just the cost of doing business, as is the results of such massive amounts of sodium iodide changing the composition of the atmosphere, and in doing so, the remnants of this climate modification system are seen in the record breaking downpours that have become the norm across the entire equator, following mostly the path of the Subtropical jet steam, which just happens to pass right over the Chinese weather modification system.  This has lead to, a more or less yearly season of extreme weather, but because cheesiness state capitalism is successful at externalizing these costs, which actually enable them to extend their infrastructure footprint. Kind of like the “hero” firefighter who is a pyromaniac for the glory.  Truly a win-win. But WAIT! there’s more!

There is a theory going around that at least 2 earthquakes, occurring on 7-Sep-2017 and 19-Sep-2017which occurred after record setting rainfall in Texas from hurricanes Hurricanes Harvey Aug 2017 and Irma in Sep 2017.

A similar occurrence happened in Japan after Typhoon Jebi in Aug 26 – sept 9 2018, the Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake was on Sept 5th 2018. My conjecture is that the trillions of gallons of water was enough weight to slightly depress the earths crust, causing the slippage between tectonic plates, which triggered the earthquakes.

Back in the US., New York City’s summer has served as a preview of things to come, as an extreme heat wave coupled with flash flooding beset the iconic city.  So cheesiness unilateral geoengineering has in many ways, turned the atmosphere into a sponge, and since they are not themselves contributing as much to the water evaporation, that water has to come from somewhere, and so, dumroll please 

On the other end of the water spectrum, a recent study published in Science Advances warned that mega droughts will likely beset the U.S. Southwest within decades. The study stated that the mega droughts are “almost assured,” and will be on a scale not seen since medieval times. 

And nothing is better for the new normal of year round fire season. See, externalizing costs is fine.

At the same time, by 2050, another report warned that “snow droughts” will become far more common across the western U.S. This is critical, in that it compounds the aforementioned impending drought crisis, as mountain snow-pack is vital to providing water into the spring and summer.

A recent and critically important study showed that one quarter of the total global population across 17 countries is already affected by extreme water stress. Lebanon, Qatar and Israel/Palestine top a list of places with the worst water shortages, as the growing climate crisis threatens more “day zeroes” — days where major cities will literally run out of water.

Meanwhile, sea levels continue their inevitable and accelerating rise. In the U.S., a recent report showed how 21 beach towns, including Miami Beach, Galveston, Atlantic City and Key West, will soon be underwater.

Speaking of Galveston, the state of Texas is looking toward Dutch expertise for assistance in how to construct what would be the nation’s most expensive and most ambitious coastal barrier for protection against intensifying hurricanes. The Netherlands has been devising ways to protect massive parts of its low-lying country against the ocean for centuries. Now the skills it has cultivated are, increasingly relevant worldwide.

Meanwhile, the oceans continue to warm as they absorb the brunt of the heat human activity is adding to the atmosphere, and the warming waters are literally pushing Pacific salmon to the brink of their ability to survive, according to another report.

Distressingly, a recently published study showed that unexpected marine heat waves are now becoming the norm rather than the exception. Which seems bad for the fish, however, these coral reefs are also home to many of the algae which produce 50% of the oxygen that we breath. They are quickly out competed by Toxic algea which thrive in higher acidity. That almost feels like a metaphor for current state of journalism. 

Alpine mountaineering routes are disintegrating as glaciers and ice fields melt in the Alps. The ice-reliant climbing routes in the mountains are tumbling down and melting away faster than anyone expected. Along with parts of siberia and canada as well, which has been leading to vast releases of methane. Which is a canary in the coal mine for the Calthrate gun Hypothisis.

Greenland experienced a record heat wave in the middle of this summer, which dramatically accelerated the melting of the ice sheet, meaning its contributions to sea level rise are in the process of accelerating as well.

Meanwhile, scientists have expressed alarm and shock about the fact that the permafrost across the Canadian Arctic is thawing out 70 years sooner than previously predicted.

Things are so dire in the icy realms of Earth that the country of Iceland is now preparing for how it will cope without any more ice … something that country relies upon for its identity, businesses, government and very existence.

Fire

These stunning satellite photos show an Arctic burning up in front of our eyes. In Alaska alone, at the time of this writing, at least 1.6 million acres have burned from at least 100 wildfires this summer. Wildfires in Siberia could well burn into October when the first snows fall, as at least 6.7 million acres have burned across Russia.

Another report showed that, due to climate disruption, wildfires in California have already become 500 percent larger than they were since the 1970s.

Canadian media are reporting that forests that have been scorched in the Pacific Northwest are not growing back as expected. This brings into question numerous species of trees’ ability to regenerate as the fires get increasingly hot, burn longer, and scorch longer areas.

At the same time, another report reaffirmed the fact that even the rainy Northwest is now facing the inevitable increased risk of wildfires due to higher temperatures, increasing drought and lower humidity.

Air

By 2050, Florida will have more days that feel like 100 degrees Fahrenheit (100°F) than any other state in the U.S., according to a recent study. Washington D.C. currently averages one week per year of 100-degree days, while by 2050 that could rise to two months. The same study warned that climate disruption will expose millions of people across the U.S. to “off-the-charts” extreme heat.

Meanwhile, Europe sizzled under a record-breaking heat wave this summer, as heat from the Sahara baked the continent and temperature records toppled en mass. There are far too many records to name from that heatwave, but notable was the fact that Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands recorded their highest temperatures ever during Europe’s second major summer heatwave.

In Canada, the far northern community of Nunavut saw warmer temperatures than the city of Victoria, far to its south. According to CBC News, “the source of the Arctic beach weather is a large current of air that somehow found its way north from the U.S. southeast” — a much more common occurrence as warming intensifies.

Denial and Reality

Ever busy denying the crisis, in the last month the Trump administration buried a large climate disruption response plan, as revealed by Politico. The outlet revealed how the Agriculture Department prevented the release of an already completed and sweeping plan about how the government should best respond to the climate crisis.

Meanwhile, in what could have been a slip of the tongue, Trump’s Energy Secretary Rick Perry said during a recent nationally televised interview, “The climate is changing. Are we part of the reason? Yeah, it is. I’ll let people debate on who’s the bigger problem here.”

It’s not just the Trump administration that’s fueling denial. It was also revealed how DNC Chair Tom Perez introduced a resolution in an attempt to kill a climate debate among the Democratic presidential candidates.

Nevertheless, reality has a way of not going away, despite human efforts at denial.

A recent report showed that the climate crisis is already well along in causing childhood deaths and the stunting of growth in Australia and across the Pacific. Other impacts on kids include lowered cognitive capacity and higher susceptibility to the spread of diseases.

And, to keep all of this in perspective, as a final reality check, the burning of fossil fuels reached an all-time record last year, according to oil giant BP.

For perspective on the rate of acceleration now baked into the system, half of all fossil fuels used by humans have been burned since just 1990. Many more consequences are lurking just around the corner: It takes at least 10 years before we begin to see the impacts of the CO2 once the fuels are burned. But on the plus side, at least there are short term sources which can be stopped with military force if nessicary. And that is how I learned to stop worrying and love the AI.

This article was primarily authored by By Madeline Fitzgerald

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The Storm is Over, But in Southern Africa, Cyclone Idai Continues to Rage for Women and Girls

HARARE, Jun 13 (IPS) - In late March Cyclone Idai carved a path of devastation across Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Malawi.  It was the deadliest cyclone to hit the region in more than a century, others have even referred to it as "Africa's Hurricane Katrina." More than 1,000 people were killed. Many more saw their homes, food crops, and even entire villages washed away.

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HARARE, Jun 13 (IPS) - In late March Cyclone Idai carved a path of devastation across Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Malawi.  It was the deadliest cyclone to hit the region in more than a century, others have even referred to it as "Africa's Hurricane Katrina." More than 1,000 people were killed. Many more saw their homes, food crops, and even entire villages washed away.

Read the full story, “The Storm is Over, But in Southern Africa, Cyclone Idai Continues to Rage for Women and Girls”, on globalissues.org →

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Danai Jekesai Gurira (born February 14, 1978) is a Zimbabwean-American actress and playwright. She is known for her starring roles in The Walking Dead, Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame.

She is the playwright of the Broadway play Eclipsed, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play. She has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play, In The Continuum, which she co-wrote and starred in.

She was born in Grinnell, Iowa to Josephine Gurira, a college librarian, and Roger Gurira, a tenured professor in the Department of Chemistry at Grinnell College (both parents later joined the staff of the University of Wisconsin–Platteville). She lived in Grinnell until age five she and her family moved back to Harare, Zimbabwe, after the country gained independence.

She returned to the US to study at Macalester College, graduating with a BA in Psychology. She earned a MA in acting from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

She taught playwriting and acting in Liberia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. She performed in a production of the Ntozake Shange play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf”.

She appeared at the Global Green Sustainable Design Awards to read a letter written by a New Orleans native displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

She co-founded Almasi Arts, an organization dedicated to continuing arts education in Zimbabwe. She serves as the Executive Artistic Director.

She signed an open letter begun by the ONE Campaign. She founded the non-profit organization Love Our Girls, which aims to highlight the issues and challenges that specifically affect women throughout the world. She partnered with Johnson & Johnson in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

She was announced as a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador. As a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador, she dedicates her support to putting a spotlight on gender equality and women’s rights. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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The death toll from a cyclone that ravaged three southern African countries last week headed Thursday towards 400, as officials estimated that more than 1.7 million people had been affected by the storm and 15,000 people were still stranded in floodwater.

As the toll surged from the region’s biggest storm in years, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced plans to tackle an emerging threat to survivors from malaria and cholera.

Cyclone Idai smashed into the coast of central Mozambique last Friday, unleashing hurricane-force winds and rains that flooded the hinterland and drenched eastern Zimbabwe.

Mozambican Land and Environmental Minister Celso Correia said 242 lives had been lost and 15,000 out of 18,000 stranded people still needed to be saved, many of them on rooftops or even in trees.

“Yesterday we had counted 15,000 people that still need rescue today – 15,000 people who are in bad shape. They are alive, we are communicating with them, delivering food, but we need to rescue them and take them out,” he told reporters.

A total of 65,000 people are in transit centres, he said.

“Our priority now is to make sure we take food, shelter and medicine to the people that are isolated in small islands or in big islands and villages,” Correia said at Beira airport, the humanitarian relief coordination hub.

On Wednesday there were just five helicopters rescuing the marooned, according to Adrien Nance who is heading the operation.

“It’s encouraging that the humanitarian response is really starting to come to scale. But more help is needed,” said Jamie LeSueur of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).

World Food Programme (WFP) spokesman Herve Verhoosel said the number of people affected in Mozambique was 600,000, but warned: “That number will definitely go up.”

Ultimately, around 1.7 million people in Mozambique will need assistance, Verhoosel said in Geneva.

Pall bearers waded through flood waters carrying a black coffin containing the remains of Tomas Joaquim Chimukme, who died after his house collapsed on him in Beira.

Zimbabwe toll

In Zimbabwe, state broadcaster ZBC said the death toll had risen to 139, up from 100 on Wednesday, while the WFP said its estimates of the number of people there affected by the cyclone had jumped from 15,000 to 200,000.

In Chimanimani, close to Zimbabwe’s border with Mozambique, “some 90 percent of the district has been significantly damaged,” Verhoosel said. An AFP reporter in the area said the district had been cut off.

Roads had been gobbled up by massive sinkholes and bridges ripped to shreds by flash floods – a landscape that Zimbabwe’s acting defence minister Perrance Shiri, who is also agriculture minister, said “resembles the aftermath of a full-scale war”.

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa, after touring the area, said the country would observe two days of mourning from Saturday.

Mozambique declared three days of mourning, taking effect on Wednesday. “In Rusitu, I saw unmitigated despair,” Mnangawa told reporters in Harare. “Big boulders (were) recklessly strewn on what used be a settlement, a banana market and even a police post.”

At the police station, “both serving officers and prisoners were washed away alongside other government structures and private residences,” he said.

Mnangagwa also announced steps to cope with future disasters, including mapping the country for weather-related risk, creating a national disaster fund and stepping up global advocacy on climate change.

In Malawi, the WHO said on Wednesday, the storm had affected 922,000 others, of whom 82,000 had been displaced.

The WHO announced an emergency plan for 10,000 people.

“The displacement of large numbers of people and the flooding triggered by Cyclone Idai significantly increases the risk of malaria, typhoid and cholera,” said Matshidiso Moeti, the agency’s regional director for Africa.

The three countries are some of the poorest in the region and depend heavily on foreign aid.

Call for help

The UN launched an appeal for assistance overnight.

“We do not yet know enough about the level of destruction to give an accurate estimate of the amount of this call for funds, but it will be important,” spokesman Farhan Haq said at UN headquarters in New York.

Aid agencies said they were prepared for the cyclone but not for the massive floods that followed.

Mozambique bore the brunt from rivers that flow downstream from its neighbours.

Air force personnel from Mozambique and South Africa have been drafted in to fly rescue missions and distribute aid in central Mozambique.

Roads out of Beira have been destroyed and the city itself, home to around half a million people, has been 90-percent damaged or destroyed.

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Headlines

Dozens of Casualties After Suicide Blast in Afghan Province (Reuters) A suicide bomber in Afghanistan killed and wounded at least 45 people in an attack on a gathering on the highway between the eastern city of Jalalabad and a crossing into neighboring Pakistan, officials in Nangarhar province said on Tuesday.

Zimbabwe Declares Cholera Emergency in Capital After Death Toll Rises to 20 (Reuters) Zimbabwe has declared a cholera outbreak in the capital Harare after the death toll rose to 20 and more than 2,000 people were infected after drinking contaminated water, new Health Minister Obadiah Moyo said on Tuesday.

More Afghans Displaced by Drought Than Conflict, U.N. Says (Reuters) A total of 275,000 people have been displaced by drought in western Afghanistan--52,000 more than the number uprooted by conflict this year--with over two million threatened by the effects of water shortages, the United Nations said.

Catalan Separatists Gear Up for Mass Independence Rally (Reuters) Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to fill the streets of Barcelona on Tuesday for Catalonia’s first commemorative day since it unilaterally declared independence last year and pitched Spain into constitutional crisis.

Japan Culls 546 Hogs After Detecting First Swine Fever Outbreak in 26 Years (Reuters) Following Japan’s first outbreak of swine fever in 26 years, a local government said on Tuesday it had culled 546 hogs in the center of Honshu, the country’s largest and most populous island.

Ethiopia, Eritrea Reopen Border Point: Minister (Reuters) The leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea on Tuesday re-opened a border point between their two countries for road transport, in a first since the two neighbors fought a war two decades ago, Eritrea’s Information Minister Yemane Meskel said on Twitter.

International Court Says It Is Undeterred After Bolton Threatens U.S. Sanctions (Reuters) The International Criminal Court said on Tuesday it would “continue to do its work undeterred” a day after U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton threatened sanctions if the tribunal investigated U.S. activities in Afghanistan.

China Tells U.N. Rights Chief to Respect Its Sovereignty After Xinjiang Comments (Reuters) China on Tuesday called for U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet to respect its sovereignty, after she urged it to allow monitors into the restive far western region of Xinjiang and expressed concern about the situation there.

Mass Evacuations Ordered as Hurricane Florence Heads Toward Carolinas (Reuters) Mass evacuations were ordered along the U.S. Atlantic Coast as Hurricane Florence, a Category 4 storm and the most powerful to menace the region in nearly three decades, barreled toward the region on Tuesday.

Hokkaido Power Station Restart to Take Longer Than Expected: Minister (Reuters) The biggest coal power station on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, hit by a devastating earthquake last week, will take weeks longer than thought to restart, a government minister said on Tuesday.

China Will Buy 7,690 New Airplanes Over Next 20 Years: Boeing (Reuters) Chinese airlines are likely to buy 7,690 planes worth $1.2 trillion over the next 20 years, Boeing Co said on Tuesday.

China Does Away With Family Planning Offices (Reuters) China’s health commission is getting rid of three offices that were previously dedicated to family planning, it announced late on Sunday, the latest signal that Beijing may further reduce restrictions on childbirth to combat an aging population.

Officials: Bus Crash in South India Kills at Least 45 People (AP) A bus carrying pilgrims from a Hindu temple in the hills of south India plunged off a road on Tuesday, killing at least 45 people, officials said. At least 25 other people were injured.

Palestinian Mission in Washington Given a Month to Pack Up (AP) The Palestinian envoy to Washington says his staffers have been given a month to pack up after the Trump administration ordered the Palestine Liberation Organization mission closed.

US Accuses Venezuela’s Leader of Operating ‘a Kleptocracy’ (AP) A U.S. official on Monday accused Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro of “rapacious corruption” and operating “a kleptocracy” on a rarely seen scale that includes not only embezzling from the state-owned oil company but stealing from a government program created to feed millions of hungry people.

Spain Holds Talks With Saudi Arabia Over Weapons Deals (AP) Spain says it is holding talks with Saudi Arabia to resolve differences over a shipment of bombs that, according to Spanish defense authorities, could end up targeting civilians in Yemen.

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Our selection of the photos that defined 2017

This was quite a moment (Picture: Getty)

For many people, 2017 is a year they won’t mind saying goodbye to. 

It was filled with tragedy on a national and global scale, with war, natural disasters and loss of life dominating headlines.

As we come towards the end, it’s time to look back and consider everything that has gone before.

We’ve previously published the photos of the year selected by Getty and the Press Association.

Here are the ones our picture editors at Metro.co.uk have chosen as the stand-out images of 2017.

The image above was taken weeks after Donald Trump was inaugurated in January. Theresa May holding his hand was a powerful symbol of the new political landscape – very different from what many had expected last November.

The IPC World ParaAthletics Championships 2017

(Picture: Mike Hewitt/Getty Images)

London hosted the World Athletics Championships and the World ParaAthletics Championships, raising the country’s spirits.

Sara Andres Barrio of Spain and Fleur Jong of Netherlands are seen celebrating after competing in the Women’s 200m T44 final in July at London Stadium.

The Rohingya crisis

(Picture: AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Over half a million refugees are estimated to have fled the Burmese military into Bangladesh, many perishing on the dangerous journey.

In this photo, Hanida Begum, a Rohingya Muslim woman, kisses her infant son, Abdul Masood, who died when the boat they were traveling in capsized just before reaching the shore of the Bay of Bengal, in Shah Porir Dwip on September 14.

The Mediterranean migrant crisis

(Picture: Getty)

A migrant tries to board a boat of the German NGO Sea-Watch in the Mediterranean Sea on November 6.

During a shipwreck, five people died, including a newborn child. According to the German NGO Sea-Watch, which has saved 58 migrants, the violent behavior of the Libyan coast guard caused the death of five people.

Wildfires in Portugal

(Picture: Getty)

Raging wildfires in Portugal killed at least 25 people and injured 16 others in June, most of them burning to death in their cars.

This photo shows a wildfire reflected in a stream at Penela, Coimbra, central Portugal.

Several hundred firefighters and 160 vehicles were dispatched late on June 17 to tackle the blaze, which broke out in the afternoon in the municipality of Pedrogao Grande before spreading fast across several fronts.

Saffiyah Khan faces down an EDL demonstrator

(Picture: PA)

This photo became a powerful image of defiance in the face of bigotry.

Saffiyah Khan faces down English Defence League protester Ian Crossland during a demonstration in the city of Birmingham, in the wake of the Westminster terror attack.

Jeremy Corbyn hugs local councillor Mushtaq Lasharie after the Grenfell Tower disaster

(Picture: Getty)

This photo was taken in contrast to the government’s stilted response to the Grenfell Tower disaster in June, when 71 people were killed in the burning building.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is shown hugging councillor Mushtaq Lasharie as he arrives at St Clement’s Church in west London where volunteers provided shelter and support for people affected by the fire.

A war photographer dies documenting Afghanistan

(Picture: Reuters)

This incredibly powerful photo shows the moment a mortar accidentally exploded, killing four Afghan soldiers and the US Army photographer who took the photo, Spc. Hilda I. Clayton.

It happened during an Afghan National Army live-fire training exercise in Laghman Province in July 2013.

The combat photographer’s family gave permission for the picture to be released four years on.

The military takes over Zimbabwe

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Young women walk past an tank stationed by an intersection as Zimbabwean soldiers regulate traffic in Harare on November 15.

Zimbabwe’s military took control, with Robert Mugabe stepping down shortly later.

Emmanuel Macron is elected French president

(Picture: AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

French centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron kisses his wife Brigitte before addressing his supporters at his election day headquarters in Paris on April 23.

Macron and far-right populist Marine Le Pen went head-to-head in a runoff in France’s presidential election, setting up a showdown over its participation in the European Union.

French riot police are set on fire

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Officers were engulfed in flames as they faced protesters during a march for the annual May Day workers’ rally in Paris on May 1.

Six officers were injured during riots in protest against far right Marine Le Pen’s success in the first round of the French presidential election.

One officer, believed to be the man pictured above, was seriously hurt by a firebomb which exploded on the top of his helmet.

Firefighters respond to Grenfell Tower

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A rainbow appears in the water as firefighters respond to Grenfell Tower, painfully contrasted with the blackened building it appears in front of.

71 people died when the tower block was engulfed by flames in June.

An inquiry is now taking place into fire safety at the block, and whether there were failings which contributed to the loss of life.

Kellyanne Conway slouches on the sofa as Trump welcomes black dignitaries

(Picture: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

This photo went viral as it as seen as disrespectful for Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the President, to kneel on the sofa with her feet on the seat while others stood.

Donald Trump was welcoming leaders of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) in the Oval Office of the White House in February.

Sloane Stephens wins the US Open

(Picture: AP Photo/Nick Didlick)

Winning player Sloane Stephens reacts as the lid to the championship trophy falls off during a photo app after the women’s singles final in September.

She beat Madison Keys, of the United States, to win the championship.

The UEFA Super Cup final soccer match

(Picture: AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

Manchester United’s Marouane Fellaini heads the ball during the final between Real Madrid and Manchester United at Philip II Arena in Skopje, on August 8.

People evacuate the beach due to wildfires

(Picture: AP Photo/Claude Paris)

Sunbathers are evacuated from the beach in Le Lavandou on the French Riviera as plumes of smoke rise in the air from burning wildfires on July 26.

The Invictus Games

(Picture: Chris Jackson/Getty Images for the Invictus Games Foundation)

Prince Harry sits with David Henson’s wife Hayley Henson and daugther Emily Henson at the Sitting Volleyball Finals during the Invictus Games 2017 on September 27, 2017 in Toronto, Canada.

The prince founded the annual games for disabled war veterans.

Jay Z and Beyonce

(Picture: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for NARAS)

Jay Z and Beyonce pictured at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles in February.

The couple welcomed twins this year.

Brexit is mocked in Germany

(Picture: Getty Images)

This float in a German parade gives an idea of what many think of Brexit on the continent.

Theresa May’s likeness was seen in Dusseldorf’s annual Rose Monday parade in February.

Political satire is a traditional cornerstone of the event, which also took aim at Trump, the rise of the far right across Europe and Germany’s national elections.

Jermain Defoe walks on onto the pitch with Bradley Lowery

(Picture: Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)

Cancer sufferer Bradley Lowery achieved his dream of being a football mascot when his ‘best friend’ Jermaine Defoe, of Sunderland, brought him out onto the pitch.

The picture is taken before the Premier League match between Sunderland and Swansea City at the Stadium of Light on May 13.

Bradley lost his fight with neuroblastoma in July.

Defoe said ‘He will always be in my heart for the rest of my life.’

  Hurricane Irma approaches Cuba and Florida

(Picture: NOAA via AP, File)

This satellite image taken on September 8 shows the super-strength storm approaching Cuba and Florida.

It devastated large parts of the Caribbean, including Richard Branson’s home on Necker Island. 

The Westminster terror attack

(Picture: Reuters)

A woman assists an injured person after an incident on Westminster Bridge in London.

Five people were killed and dozens injured when Khalid Masood mowed down pedestrians on March 22.

Trump looks at the solar eclipse without glasses

(Picture: Reuters)

Donald Trump is pictured looking at the solar eclipse along with wife Melania and son Barron.

People were warned not to look directly at the eclipse without glasses, but Trump decided he knew bettern August 21.

The Queen is pictured in the mirror of her Range Rover

(Picture: Peter Macdiarmid/LNP)

Queen Elizabeth II was reflected in the door mirror of her Range Rover as she drove herself from the Royal Windsor Horse Show.

The five day equestrian event took place in the grounds of Windsor Castle.

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