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June 21, 2021
EU promises new sanctions will hurt Belarus
June 21, 2021
Macron’s party scores poorly in regional vote
June 21, 2021
Incumbent Pashinyan wins Armenian election but opposition contests result
AMSTERDAM — The Western Peat Meadows of the Netherlands look like classic Dutch countryside (cows, windmills and green fields), but the views mask a significant loss of biodiversity, caused by intensive farming methods.As the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration begins, a local organization is planning to restore 100 million of hectares of land, across the world.The not-for-profit organization, Commonland, an official partner of the UN Decade, which began in June, plans to transform tracts of land, equivalent to the size of Spain, into thriving ecosystems by 2040.The projects range from the Western Peat Meadows, to the Maasai Mara in Kenya.The former is affected by climate change, and is seeing rising sea waters and the gradual sinking of the soil; many farmers are struggling to make ends...
June 21, 2021
Restoring Dutch ‘green deserts’
SARAJEVO — Activists briefly blocked the Croatia-Bosnian border on Saturday in a protest to highlight the European Union's migration policies.About 100 people from different human rights organizations across Europe gathered near the border in Maljevac, Croatia, and held up traffic for about two hours.Police attended the protest but no incidents were reported. The demonstrators, who hailed mostly from Italy but also came from Germany, Austria, Spain and Slovenia, demanded an end to deportations and the dissolution of EU border agency Frontex.Francesco Cibati, from a rights group based in Trieste, Italy, said the group wanted to highlight that everyone should be granted the right to seek asylum.“The European Union is violently pushing people back," he said, "and Croatian...
June 20, 2021
Activists protest treatment of migrants on Bosnia-Croatia border
June 20, 2021
Bitter election in Armenia amid shadow of a lost war
June 20, 2021
Sustainability solution or climate calamity? The dangers and promise of cryptocurrency technology
June 19, 2021
One dies, 10 hurt as school under construction collapses in Antwerp
GENEVA — The UN Special Envoy for Myanmar said on Friday she has called for timely action from the Security Council in response to the ongoing crisis in the Southeast Asian country stemming from the military coup in February.Speaking to journalists following her closed-door briefing to the Council, Christine Schraner Burgener described the situation in Myanmar as “very worrisome” and “very bad”.Alarming, on the ground Some 600 people have been killed in the nearly five months since the coup, she said, and 6,000 arrested, with 5,000 still in detention. Around 100 people have “disappeared” without trace.The crisis has uprooted some 175,000 people, which has added to internal displacement that existed before the military seized power and detained political leaders, including...
June 19, 2021
Myanmar: Timely support and action by Security Council ‘really paramount’
June 19, 2021
COVID-19: Vaccines donated next year, ‘too late for those who are dying today’
