The UN climate conference in Glasgow runs until 12 November. Johnson: “It’s one minute to midnight, we must act now”. The world must accelerate its commitments to keep the temperature rise below 1.5 degrees to avoid the worst effects of climate change. The emissions gap report shows
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Our planet has fewer and fewer surprises in store, and with globalisation, the extermination of many animal and plant races, the different climatic zones tend to resemble each other more and more. There remain a few paradise islands, not yet destroyed by mining or mass tourism, where
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For years, competitors of PMI Philip Morris International (and especially BAT British American Tobacco) have been claiming that PMI also sells its cigarettes through smuggling. According to many observers, international cigarette smuggling takes place using four main hubs: Greece, South Africa, Iran and the United Arab Emirates.
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“If you want to build high, you must dig deep”, a Mongolian proverb says[1]. Digging deep is how Mongolia makes a living. Copper, coal, gold, Iron and zinc are the country’s leading exports[2], while deposits of molybdenum, fluorspar, uranium, and tungsten put Mongolia on the map of
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It is Sunday morning, 5 September 2021, and in the Kaloum district of Conakry, numerous gunshots can be heard: more than 500 ‘red berets’, riding on military vehicles that left before dawn from the Forecariah base to occupy the country, are storming the Presidential Palace of Sékhoutouréya
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Kismayo, the heart of Jubaland (southern Somalia), is a strategic port. Hodan Nalayeh, a BBC Somali Canadian journalist, lives there, back to her roots, her people. Kismayo and Jubaland are among the safest areas in Somalia since Ahmed Mohamed Islaam Madobe, who was already in charge of
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On the morning of 20 September 2021, Federal Finance Minister and Social Democratic candidate for the Chancellery, Olaf Scholz, appeared before the Finance Committee of the Bundestag to answer accusatory questions from his colleagues about a scandal raised by the criminal investigation of the Osnabrück public prosecutor’s
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On the night of 6 to 7 July 2021, an armed commando broke into the home of President Jovenel Moïse and shot him dead with 16 bullets, seriously wounding his wife. Prime Minister Claude Joseph said the men spoke English and Spanish and were disguised as Drug
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February 1, 2021. The metropolis of Yangon, the former capital of Myanmar, wakes up under a stormy sky: the leader and icon Aung San Suu Kyi is arrested along with President Win Myint. The coup organized by the army brings General Min Aung Hlaing to power. It
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The earth is not at peace. The New Cold War is no longer the opposition between the United States and the Soviet Union as after World War II, but the conflict between various Arab countries which, thanks to oil, have gone from poverty to opulence in just
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