- Amnesty says the police in the Philippines are operating a ‘large scale murdering exercise’ in their war on drugs

- The New York Times says sorry not sorry for an advert it places looking for a a Nairobi bureau chief

- Abu Dhabi opens solar project which can power 90000 homes

- Snowball the cockatoo with 14 dance moves!

#Newsfeed #Duterte #The New York Times

00:55 : The US women’s team are world champions. Now they are reinforcing their demands for equal pay with the men’s team

05:41 : Disney’s live action remake of Mulan drops its trailer

09:54 : Netflix say they will reduce the amount of smoking shown on the streaming service

#Newsfeed #Mulan #Netflix

00:43 : The gender pay gap is narrowing. Could some new apps help women achieve parity sooner than the estimated 200 years

05:35 : Dengue fever is spreading. Climate change is too blame

12:29 : A stolen bust of King Tut sell for nearly 6 million dollars. Egypt won’t get a penny

#Newsfeed #equalpay #denguefever

It reads like something from a Joseph Conrad novel. The New York Times is being criticised for a running a job advert, for a bureau chief based in Nairobi which rehashes old tropes about ‘darkest Africa.’ Its offensive and the paper is taking a kicking online. Our man from Kenya, Philip Owira, explains what happened and why it's so problematic.

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California is the first state to protect its citizens from discrimination based on their hairstyle. They call it the ‘Crown Act’. It’s an update to the state’s anti-discrimination law so that ‘race’ includes ‘traits historically associated with race.’

#Newsfeed #CrownAct #California

00:58 - The New York Times released an ad for a job in Nairobi. Its description used in the ad of the region is something out of a Joseph Conrad novel and is being rightly mocked

3:25 - The co-founder of Wikipedia has called for a social media strike today to Declare our Digital independence day. Did you take part?

8:09 - And California passes a law to stop discrimination based on hair people in a win for people who don’t have white people hair

#NewsFeed #NewYorkTimes #SocialMediaStrike

The death of a teenager in Tel Aviv has brought people to the streets. They are protesting his killing as well as the historic marginalisation and discrimination against their community.

#NewsFeed #SolomonTekah #BlackLivesMatter

There are loads of apps out there which are designed to get us into better sleep habits. New research suggests all that sleep monitoring may be keeping us up at night

#NewsFeed #SleepAnxiety #Sleep

It was the hottest June ever recorded in Europe. Antarctica is melting faster than scientists thought. The earth is in a climate crisis

#NewsFeed #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

- An Ethiopian Israeli killed by Israeli police. People riot in the streets and Ethiopians there say this is their ‘Black Lives Matter’ moment

- Europe overheats and the poles, north and south, melt faster than ever. The climate crisis is here and happening

- Are sleep tracking apps making us more anxious about getting enough sleep

#NewsFeed #SolomonTekah #ClimateEmergency