Tag: Science
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
23-Year-Old Kezia Asiedua Sanie Becomes Youngest Member Of Board Of Trustees For Head Of State Awards Scheme. ” It’s more than just a title to me – it’s a chance for me to help expand the initiative to reach thousands of young people to make positive changes in their lives by helping them to reach…
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ECOWAS leaders say all options open in Niger, including ‘use of force’ The bloc also said it would enforce all measures, in particular, “border closures, travel bans, and assets freeze, on all persons or groups of individuals whose actions hinder all peace efforts in ensuring the smooth and complete restoration of constitutional order”. #NigerCoup #NigerCrisis…
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200 Members of Congress Vow Not to Interfere If UPS Workers Strike “All workers, including UPS Teamsters, deserve fair wages, safe conditions, and decent benefits,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. “If a bargaining agreement can’t be reached, we will not intervene if UPS workers strike.” #UPS #WorkersRights #Solidarity #UnionStrong A spicy taste of freedom in China…
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From South America to the American South, Abortion Bans Devastate Latinas “The lack of reproductive rights that persists in the lives of the Latine community — both in the US and in Latin American and Caribbean countries — is an urgent issue that requires the building of a transnational movement. “ #ReproductiveRights #SouthAmerica #latinos #Caribbean…
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Heatwave 2.0
June 2023 was the hottest June on record. Each year continues to get hotter and hotter due to the climate crisis. Humankind has known that our rapid industrialization has altered the Earth’s atmosphere. In the long run, the Earth will survive, but humankind will be on the ropes. Again I quote the legendary comedian George Carlin. Who once…
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Jenin updates: Residents start rebuilding after Israeli attack “[Palestinians] cannot be treated as a collective security threat by the occupying Power, all the more while it advances the annexation of occupied Palestinian land, and displacement and dispossession of its Palestinian residents,” #Jenin #FreePalestine #isreal #WarCrimes OceanGate and How the Wealthy Kill One Person Killed, Several…
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Nigeria: Degrees of Heat – Northern Nigeria Students Wilt in Climate Extremes “Whenever the weather is hot, students’ performance declines,” says Abubakar Kawu Monguno, Director of the Centre for Disaster Risk Management and Development Studies at the University of Maiduguri. He says that daily temperatures in the north can surpass 40°C and go as high…
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Tunisian black women: ‘My skin colour says I don’t belong’ In 2018, Tunisia passed a landmark law to criminalise racial discrimination, in particular anti-black racism against black Tunisians and black African migrants. It became the first country in the Arab region to make discrimination specifically on racial grounds a criminal offence. #Tunisia #Racism #BlackLivesMatter #Africa…
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As the West surges toward electric cars, here’s where the unwanted gas guzzlers go “Today with climate change, it doesn’t really matter where the emissions are taking place,” de Jong said. “Whether in Washington, DC, or Lagos, it makes no difference.” #Benin #Kenya #ClimateCrisis #cars China slams G7 statement; lodges protest against brazen interference in…
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BIDEN IS SELLING WEAPONS TO THE MAJORITY OF THE WORLD’S AUTOCRACIES Rather, the new figures reveal the continuity between Republican and Democratic administrations. While Biden signaled early on that his arms sales policy would be based primarily on strategic and human rights considerations, not just economic interests, he broke from that policy not too long after entering…
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