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Iran raps Europe for caving in to ‘high school bully’ Trump in nuclear deal
Jan 20, 2020 17:41The Washington Post reported on Wednesday Jan. 15, that the United States had threatened to impose a 25% tariff on European automobile imports if the three European powers, namely Germany, France and the UK (the E3), did not formally accuse Iran of breaking the nuclear agreement.
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Debt will kill the global economy, but it seems no one cares
Jan 10, 2020 09:33The World Bank said emerging-market and developing economies (EMDEs) had pushed their borrowing to a record $55 trillion (£42 trillion) in 2018.
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Iran in 2019 at a glance (2)
Jan 06, 2020 16:10Welcome to the second and final episode of the series "Iran in 2019 at a glance". Today, we will review some of the other most important developments of Iran in 2019.
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Climate crisis threatens a third of plant species, endangering food supply
Dec 26, 2019 08:31"Botanists have made a new census of terrestrial plants — only to find that with nearly 40% of them rare, or extremely rare, this may put food at risk", says Tim Radford, environmental activist in an article published in the Truthout website under the heading: “Climate crisis threatens a third of plant species, endangering food supply.”
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5G won’t give you cancer, but it is messing up weather reports
Dec 26, 2019 08:24Both 5G and weather monitoring rely on the electromagnetic spectrum to work. If 5G encroaches into the space the weather satellites need to work then it creates an interference that blinds weather monitoring systems.
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Forget about water at your peril
Dec 21, 2019 16:04Even by climate change's destructive standards, water is in an increasingly grim bind. Droughts and monster floods are having devastating effects on the human civilisation, as the situations in much of Africa, Australia, and China attest.
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High time for NATO’s end for the sake of global peace
Dec 13, 2019 14:15"NATO is the cause of the new arms race with Russia, including upgrading of nuclear arsenals. Therefore, the sooner it is disbanded the better for world peace and stability, since a relic of the cold war shouldn’t be reconfigured to prolong the US domination of Europe, or to pick up fights with Russia, China, and the Resistant Front of the Muslim World, or to launch suicidal space wars."
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Great uncertainties in UK election polls suggest fight against Brexit isn’t over
Dec 10, 2019 13:52A poll for the Independent newspaper suggests a much smaller Tory lead, with the likelihood of a hung Parliament, meaning that no single party would command a majority after the election, and the main parties would set off on a scramble for coalition partners, presumably with two rival camps coalescing around support for and opposition to Brexit.
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The climate emergency has already begun as earth systems collapse
Dec 09, 2019 15:26More than 11,000 scientists across 153 countries are shouting out a new climate change warning. The delay for action has been too long. Addressing our rapidly degrading and already overly dangerous climate is now officially an emergency.
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Are electric vehicles really so climate friendly?
Nov 29, 2019 11:34Electric vehicles emit substantial amounts of CO2, the only difference being that the exhaust is released at a remove — that is, at the power plant.