Category: Science
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
The pandemic sent hunger soaring in Brazil. They’re fighting back with school lunches According to a study conducted by the Brazilian Research Network on Food and Nutrition Sovereignty and Security, hunger affected 9% of homes in Brazil by the end of 2020, wiping out the gains of the early aughts. By 2022 the rate had reached 15.5%…
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Starving Palestinians loot aid trucks as desperation mounts in Gaza’s Rafah “The humanitarian situation has become very desperate, not only for the residents of Rafah city but also for the one million displaced Palestinians here who are becoming hungry, thirsty and traumatised as the war pounds on,” said Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Rafah.…
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Hamas releases a second group of hostages to Israel in temporary cease-fire deal “It is time to remove bureaucratic hurdles and restrictions on UNRWA so that we can expand and accelerate the delivery of much-needed humanitarian assistance to more than two million people,” #Hamas #IsraeliHostages #GazaUnderGenocide #war China-Middle East summit told ‘Israel seeks to end…
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Conflict in Sudan Growing in Scope, Brutality as World Remains Silent At the end of each year, she said, U.N. officials are usually hopeful of receiving any remaining funds left over for such an emergency. But, she added, “because of what is happening in Gaza … the funds that were intended or that could have…
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Second Israeli airstrike hits Gaza refugee camp “Given the high number of civilian casualties & the scale of destruction following Israeli airstrikes on Jabalia refugee camp,” the office wrote, “we have serious concerns that these are disproportionate attacks that could amount to war crimes.” #GazaUnderFire #Israel #JabalyaRefugeeCamp Top UN official in New York steps down citing ‘genocide’…
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The Evolved ‘Young’ Man of the Week: Heman Bekele
Welcome to the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved “Young” Men of the Week’ profile. Today, we will highlight historical and contemporary figures who embodied what it means to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to the teenager from Arlington, Virginia, by way…
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Israeli Apartheid Is at the Heart of the Brutality in Gaza and Israel We need to change the conditions from which this brutality sprang. Sending more bombs, warplanes, guns and bullets won’t solve the problem. We’ve been providing Israel billions of our tax dollars—supplying about 20% of Israel’s entire military budget—for years. And we’ve done it…
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Israel-Palestine escalation updates: Gaza under bombardment Following one of the deadliest attacks on Israel in decades, Netanyahu promised to turn all Hamas hideouts in Gaza to “rubble”, telling residents of the besieged enclave to “leave now”. It is a statement that underscores the fundamental plight of Palestinian civilians in Gaza who live under Israeli blockade…
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Canada’s House speaker has stepped down after inviting a Nazi veteran to Parliament Observers over the weekend began to publicize the fact that the First Ukrainian Division also was known as the Waffen-SS Galicia Division, or the SS 14th Waffen Division, a voluntary unit that was under the command of the Nazis. #CanadaNews #NaziCanada #JustinTrudeau…
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Death toll in Libya’s Derna flooding could reach 20,000: Mayor ‘We undertook all the precautions and informed the … the inhabitants of the areas the disaster could have taken place, we created an emergency room .. the security forces carried out their duty,” he said. #Libya #LibyaFlood #Africa #NaturalDisasters Japan says swarms of tourists defiling…
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