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New rules target ‘picky’ state house tenants
Social Housing Minister Paula Bennett said that it was in response to some people being “unrealistically picky” when offered state houses.
“Every year people are refusing offers of hundreds of social housing properties without a good reason and this is holding up others from getting into warm, dry and adequate homes.”
Under the new rules, people will only have the opportunity to turn down a house once – down from three times – without having a “good and sufficient” reason, before being removed from the social housing register.
People will be asked to pick at least three suburbs they would be willing to live in, whereas at the moment they only have to give one.
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Million Mask March protest underway in London
Thousands of people dressed in Guy Fawkes masks in Trafalgar Square are met by ‘significant policing operation’, including thousands of extra officers to tackle expected unrest
The Guardian
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MSF Report on U.S. Bombing of Hospital: “Attack Was Conducted with Purpose to Kill”
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Israel arrests Palestinian teenager over Facebook posts
Israeli police have arrested a Palestinian teenager for Facebook posts as unrest continues in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.
Anas Khateeb, a 19-year-old activist, is one of at least 205 Palestinian citizens of Israel – among them several activists and minors – who have been arrested since the beginning of October, according to Adalah Legal Centre, a Haifa-based rights group.
The wave of detentions is part of an ongoing crackdown on protests across Palestinian communities in Israel and throughout the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the besieged Gaza Strip.
“Israeli police targeted [Khateeb] in order to cause a ripple effect among activists,” Amjad Iraqi, Adalah’s media coordinator, told Al Jazeera.
Aljazeera
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Persian Gulf Nations Might Be Screwed No Matter What the World Does About Climate Change
Unless the world does something about climate change, much of the Middle East is screwed.
In a region where summer temperatures already top 40 degrees Celsius — into triple digits on the Fahrenheit scale — recent research suggests an ever-warmer future will pose new hazards to human health and could cripple economic productivity in a region that aspires to be a global financial power.
But if the world actually does something about climate change, the Middle East may be screwed, too.
The region’s economy leans heavily on exporting oil and natural gas, fossil fuels that much of the world says it wants to phase out this century.
In other words: The big economies of Middle East seem damned if we don’t rid our economies from fossil fuels, and damned if we do transition to green energy production.
Vice News
