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In Asia Pacific climate crisis is happening now, not in future
Dec 26, 2019 04:48Many big Asian cities, including Mumbai, Shanghai, Bangkok, and Jakarta, are coastal and low-lying, making them susceptible to sea level rise and other extreme weather events.
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Iran holds 28th nationwide ritual Prayers Congress
Dec 25, 2019 14:14The ritual prayer in Islam is performed five times a day. All over the world, roughly 1.6 billion Muslims at the specified times of the ritual prayers, bow, kneel, and place their foreheads to the ground in the direction of the focal point, that is the sacred Ka’ba, the symbolic House of the Unseen but Omnipresent Lord, in the holy city of Mecca.
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UK Home Office accused of ‘ignoring offers to give homes to child refugees’
Dec 25, 2019 07:05UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Parliament recently he was reducing legal protections for refugee children in his new Brexit bill.
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Thoughts for a Merry Christmas
Dec 25, 2019 06:40Although Muslims, as well as, many learned Christians well-versed with the history and development of their faith, do not believe that Prophet Jesus (peace upon him) was born on December 25, the advent of this day every year affords us the chance to dwell on the Prophet of Peace, whose teachings have sadly been distorted beyond recognition by those who have turned him into a godhead.
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Okinawans keep up fight against US military base in biodiverse Oura Bay
Dec 24, 2019 16:31Marine biologists and environmentalists say that the controversial construction project of US military base in Okinawa could disrupt ocean currents that corals need to survive, such as carrying in nutrients, filtering out sediment and debris, and maintaining the ecological balance within the bay. The base also poses a risk to other marine wildlife, including the northernmost dugong population.
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The real lesson of Afghanistan is that regime change does not work
Dec 24, 2019 14:17“It shouldn’t take 18 years for US officials to publicly admit that there is no military solution to a murderous and unwinnable war for which the US is politically and legally responsible. But the debacle in Afghanistan is only one case in a fundamentally flawed US policy with worldwide consequences”, says Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK for Peace in an article titled: The Real Lesson of Afghanistan Is That Regime Change Does Not Work.
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The Afghanistan fiasco and the decline and fall of the American military
Dec 24, 2019 06:58The Afghan War’s true costs have never been precisely calculated, though they certainly exceed $1 trillion and counting.
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Future of poverty policy: Five years of momentum must not go to waste
Dec 24, 2019 06:55Poor quality of health care, education and other essential services available to many are the product of insufficient and unequal public spending and investment.
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EU policies don’t tackle refugee crisis
Dec 24, 2019 06:49There are clear misinterpretations and ambiguities in Europe’s war-on-terror agenda towards migration and refugee crisis, which have toxically been coined with security politics of Washington. Europe has no choice but to find a common ground and work towards a genuine security union with other countries which are at the forefront of the real war on terrorism and extremism, including Iran, Russia and China.
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Bolivia’s new US-backed interim gov’t wastes no time privatizing economy
Dec 23, 2019 13:18Senator Jeanine Añez is a strongly conservative politician who has described Bolivia’s indigenous majority as “satanic”.