Новости за 09.05.2024

By Fernanda Canofre

On April 27, MetSul, a meteorology agency, posted on X (former Twitter) a warning about a cold front, heavy rain, gales, and hail, and risks of severe weather in parts of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil’s southernmost state. This is the same state that endured three climate disasters in 2023 alone, with 80 people confirmed dead and many cities hit.

The following day, the agency posted another alert: ”Serious risk of floods in southern Brazil because of excessive to extreme rain. Читать дальше...

The East African Federation is a proposition on the table. It is to be a union of the eight EAC members and any other member that would join it in the future into a single federated sovereign state. The current members include in Alphabetical order the countries of Burundi, DR Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. The main features of the union include the following:

Access to clean water is a fundamental human right, yet millions worldwide lack this necessity. In Morocco, progress is evident through the government’s unwavering dedication to the “national program for supplying potable water to rural areas.”

Recently, there’s been growing concern over climate change, viewed as a significant threat to global security. As the UK’s former Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry emphasized in the UN Chronicle, climate change extends beyond environmental issues, posing a grave risk to global stability. 

While the planet is too hot to be habitable, detecting its atmosphere can provide insights into the early conditions of Earth, Venus, and Mars. Thus, researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have detected atmospheric gases surrounding 55 Cancri e, a hot rocky exoplanet 41 light-years from Earth. Renyu Hu from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is lead author on a paper published in Nature; 55 Cancri e is one of five known planets orbiting the Sun-like star 55 Cancri. 

Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations Saeed Iravani disavowed claims leveled by the Israeli regime that Tehran has regional proxies by which it makes operations in the region, adding that such allegations are made to obscure and justify the Israeli regime’s acts of aggression and destabilizing measures.

The race to dominate the so-called swing states of Asia is heating up. The rise of China has compelled not only the US, but has impelled Australia, India and Japan to try to acquire influence in the countries that have not yet joined hands with either bloc. Various political analysts, refer to the US-China rivalry as a new Cold War. Yet it is crucial that the US and its allies not over emphasize the analogy to original Cold War, or misinterpret the challenges China poses in the rivalry over Asia’s swing states. Читать дальше...

The forthcoming Special Prosecutor’s Office must do better than the mechanism set up to deal with Dergue-era crimes.

The H5N1 avian influenza virus has so far shown no signs of adapting to allow human to human transmission, the UN health agency said on Wednesday, urging continued surveillance.

An Al-Qaeda-linked Islamist armed group killed at least 32 civilians, including 3 children, and set fire to over 350 homes in central Mali in January 2024, forcing about 2,000 villagers to flee, Human Rights Watch said. Earlier in January, an ethnic militia killed at least 13 civilians, including 2 children, abducted 24 other civilians, and looted property and livestock in central Mali. These attacks violate international humanitarian law and are apparent war crimes.

By Anthony V Rinna

A mere 2000 kilometres from South Korea, mineral-rich Mongolia has the potential to be a solid partner in Seoul’s current efforts to diversify its mineral supply chains, particularly for rare earths. This is especially true as technologically cutting-edge South Korea has recently taken steps to provide official development assistance (ODA) to Mongolia to improve the latter’s extractive capabilities.

South Korea’s membership in the US-led Minerals Security... Читать дальше...

By Jacob R. Swartz

When we consider markets, we typically think of commerce - the buying and selling of goods and services, international trade, investing, supply and demand. Markets are the backbone of our economy. Almost everything has a market - food, medical care, toys, films and entertainment, weapons, drugs, stocks. But there is one market that surpasses them all in importance, without which no other market could exist - the labor market.

Labor is crucial for commerce. Читать дальше...

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began just over four years ago, one of the most notable transformations has been in how and where people work. The pandemic emergency forced the traditional office environment to undergo a seismic shift, as organizations across the US swiftly converted to remote work out of necessity. Where remote work was somewhat of a novelty before the pandemic, it quickly became normalized as a viable option for many jobs.

The UN’s peacekeepers and its humanitarian workers are increasingly victims of killings in war zones—in the midst of civil wars and military conflicts.

The spirit of the Constitution, drafted by men who chafed against the heavy-handed tyranny of an imperial ruler, would suggest that one’s home is a fortress, safe from almost every kind of intrusion.

By Felix Corley

In one District of southern Kazakhstan, Shu District close to the border with Kyrgyzstan, police in March and April conducted raids on four worship meetings of three local Protestant churches. Officers filmed those present, demanded that some write statements explaining why they were present and issued six summary fines. One of the church leaders was also fined in court and another, 77-year-old Pastor Andrei Boiprav, is awaiting a court hearing.

Members of the... Читать дальше...

By Jason Gutierrez

The Philippine defense chief on Wednesday called for a probe into whether China violated wiretapping laws during an alleged phone conversation between a Chinese official and a senior Filipino military commander about a new bilateral arrangement over a contested South China Sea shoal.

The Chinese embassy in Manila released to selected news outlets what it described as a transcript of a call in January between Philippine Vice Adm. Alberto Carlos and an unidentified Chinese official... Читать дальше...