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The sun rises over a smoldering landscape that was burned by a wildfire dubbed the Cave Fire, burning in the hills of Santa Barbara, California, US, in this Nov. 26, 2019, file photo. — courtesy Reuters/David McNew
Why business and government must act on the IPCC climate change report
GENEVA — In the race against climate change, every fraction of a degree by which the global temperature rises counts. Every country — and every business — must bring the best they have to this race with the shared goal of winning it.The latest IPCC report makes these truths indisputable. Climate change is happening, human activities are the source of the problem and our norms need to shift rapidly to limit further damage. We are in the red zone; we don’t have time to lose.The report proves that to win the race to zero, it’s imperative that we go all in on climate action, collaborating across both business and government. We need to do it now because the window of time to stabilize the climate is vanishing fast. This year the G20 and COP26 are decisive moments for the future of...
August 22, 2021

Why business and government must act on the IPCC climate change report

The United Kingdom will roll out a national surveillance program to measure antibodies in people who test positive for COVID-19 to better understand people's response to an infection.
UK to offer antibody tests to people who test positive
LONDON — The United Kingdom will roll out a national surveillance program to measure antibodies in people who test positive for COVID-19 to better understand people's response to an infection.The NHS will send antibody tests to anyone who tests positive for the virus if they decide to opt into the program.It's meant to measure the antibodies, or proteins used by the immune system to recognize and fight off the virus, in a person's body. A person develops these antibodies in response to an infection or vaccination in order to fight off the virus.Those who test positive for COVID-19 will be sent two finger-prick tests.One is meant to be completed right away to determine if the person already has antibodies against the coronavirus. The second will be completed 28 days after an...
August 22, 2021

UK to offer antibody tests to people who test positive

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven announced on Sunday that he will resign in November to allow a successor to prepare for the 2022 elections.
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven to resign in November
STOCKHOLM — Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven announced on Sunday that he will resign in November to allow a successor to prepare for the 2022 elections."I will resign from my position as party leader at the November congress and therefore from my post as Prime Minister," he announced at a meeting.Lofven has been head of his party for nearly 10 years, and became prime minister in 2014, a post he continued to hold until June 28 when he resigned but stayed on as a caretaker PM. He was eventually reappointed prime minister in July.The announcement of his forthcoming resignation is meant to better his party's chances in the elections scheduled for September 2022."Everything comes to an end, and I want to give my successor the best possible chance," he said on...
August 22, 2021

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven to resign in November

Thousands of people demonstrated in the streets of France again on Saturday against the government's COVID-19 vaccination policies amid concern from rights groups about anti-Semitic sentiment in the protest movement.
French health pass drives increase in COVID-19 tests as vaccinations slow
PARIS — French biologists and pharmacists carried out a record number of COVID-19 tests in the week following the extension of the country's "health pass" to restaurants, trains and other activities.A health pass and QR code is provided for those who are vaccinated or who have recovered from COVID-19 in the past six months but also applies for people who have tested negative in the past 48 hours (for a rapid test) or 72 hours (for a PCR test).The effort, largely viewed as a way of encouraging the population to get a COVID-19 jab, has stretched thin those carrying out the millions of tests."We are really at the peak of our capacities and it will be very complicated to go beyond this," Henry-Pierre Doermann, vice-president of the lab-workers union, told AFP.There...
August 22, 2021

French health pass drives increase in COVID-19 tests as vaccinations slow

A farmer prepares to burn crop remnants in a field in Punjab, India. — courtesy CIAT/Neil Palmer
Extinguishing the practice of crop burning
GENEVA — Around the world, people are preparing to choke their way through what is called ‘the season of smog’, when farmers burn their fields to make way for new crops.This practice produces highly toxic black carbon and, according to the UN Environment Program (UNEP), and degrades the land.Black carbon is incredibly dangerous to human health and the planet; it is responsible for millions of premature deaths each year, and its impact on global warming is 460 to 1,500 times greater than carbon dioxide, the main driver of climate change.There are UN-related initiatives to ignite a commitment among farmers to end field burning, using a combination of education, technology and assistance. — UN News
August 22, 2021

Extinguishing the practice of crop burning

Angela Merkel's party kicked off its election campaign in the hopes of continuing to lead the country even as the chancellor steps down.
Merkel's CDU kicks off election campaign amid falling poll numbers
BERLIN — Angela Merkel's party kicked off its election campaign in the hopes of continuing to lead the country even as the chancellor steps down.Armin Laschet, the state governor who now leads Merkel's center-right party, said he would "fight with everything" he can to win the Sept. 26 election.Merkel has been in office for 16 years and announced in 2018 that she wouldn't seek a fifth term as chancellor.But poll numbers for the CDU have decreased in recent weeks, with the party polling just a few points ahead of the center-left Social Democrats and the environmentalist Green Party.The CDU took 32.9% of the vote in the last election, in 2017 and in its best result under Merkel, the bloc won 41.5% in 2013.Meanwhile, Laschet's Social Democratic rival Olaf Scholz...
August 21, 2021

Merkel's CDU kicks off election campaign amid falling poll numbers

EU Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarcic.
EU makes available additional funding of €41 million to fight the pandemic
BRUSSELS — The EU will provide €41 million to help low and middle-income countries facing an unprecedented health, humanitarian and socio-economic crisis as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to persist, combined with the imbalance in the delivery of vaccines.To help countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and Asia tackle the consequences of the pandemic, the EU has allocated €31 million for, among others, health assistance to vulnerable populations, support for the management of COVID-19 cases, and for building resilience in the local health systems in view of future surges.In addition, €10 million are allocated to support the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in delivering vaccines to children under the COVAX Humanitarian Buffer.Commissioner...
August 21, 2021

EU makes available additional funding of €41 million to fight the pandemic

Turkey is ready to hold talks with the Taliban if necessary, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
Turkey ready for talks with Taliban: Erdogan
ISTANBUL — Turkey is ready to hold talks with the Taliban if necessary, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday.“If there is a knock on our door, we will open it for dialogue,” Erdogan told reporters after Friday prayers in Istanbul.He criticized the Western world and Islamic states for “their lack of interest and car for Afghanistan over the past two decades.”Turkey has been putting the necessary effort for Afghanistan’s development and will continue to do so, the president asserted.On the wave of migration from Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover, Erdogan said Turkey is also hosting some 300,000 undocumented Afghan migrants.The Turkey’s president announced that his country greets the adequate declarations made by Taliban leaders.During a mutual TV...
August 20, 2021

Turkey ready for talks with Taliban: Erdogan

NATO's former Deputy Assistant Secretary-General Jamie Shea, left, with a picture of the alliance on right.
'Terrorism is going to be on the rise again' predicts former NATO official
BRUSSELS — NATO foreign ministers are holding an emergency video conference later Friday to discuss the unfolding crisis in Afghanistan.The alliance's former Deputy Assistant Secretary-General Jamie Shea expects NATO to agree on a plan to coordinate all of these evacuations and to get them under control.Speaking to Euronews, he said: "The immediate issue is to get a grip on the evacuations taking place from Kabul airport.“I have the impression that nearly everybody is sort of organizing it along purely national lines at the moment, whereas NATO had the coordinating responsibility for the airport for many years."NATO's former official warns that due to the debacle in Afghanistan, "terrorism is going to be on the rise again"."Everybody's been...
August 20, 2021

'Terrorism is going to be on the rise again' predicts former NATO official

File photo; German Chancellor Angela Merkel is heading to Moscow on Friday for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Merkel and Putin to meet on anniversary of Navalny's poisoning as relations hit low
BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel is heading to Moscow on Friday for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.The visit comes during a low point in the relationship between the two countries, which continues to suffer from ongoing tensions over Moscow's treatment of opposition politician Alexei Navalny and Russia's aggression towards Ukraine.Other challenging issues that are certain to arise are the current crisis in Afghanistan, the disputed Nord Stream 2 pipeline, and Alexander Lukashenko's repression of dissent in Belarus as well as his government's efforts to channel migrants into Latvia, Lithuania and Poland with the aim of destabilizing the European Union.Merkel's visit to Putin comes as the chancellor is nearing the end of her almost 16-year-long...
August 20, 2021

Merkel and Putin to meet on anniversary of Navalny's poisoning as relations hit low

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