08/11/2012
Syria has been wracked by violence, with at least 20,000 people, mostly civilians, killed since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began some 20 months ago. The violence has spawned more than 380,000 refugees – many of them seeking safety and aid in neighbouring countries – while more than 2.5 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, according to UN estimates.
*Collage made by Futuretrillionaire (talk · contribs); Photos from: FreedomHouse, Elizabeth Arrott , and Bo yaser
On 7 November 2012, the head of the United Nations food relief agency today expressed her thanks to the people and Government of Lebanon for their support of Syrians seeking refuge from the violence affecting their country.
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08/11/2012
Exclusive by RT*, 8 November, 2012 — In an exclusive interview with Russia Today (RT), Syrian President Bashar Assad said he will not leave Syria. Assad also spoke on the calls for armed foreign intervention in Syria, and the possible fallout on the country’s internal conflict and across the region.
**Bashar_al-Assad.jpg: Fabio Rodrigues Pozzebom / ABr. Derivative work: César (talk)
“We are the last stronghold of secularism and stability in the region and coexistence, let’s say, it will have a domino effect that will affect the world from the Atlantic to the Pacific and you know the implication on the rest of the world,” Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad told RT in an exclusive interview that will air on Friday, November 9.
“I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country,” he said. “I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria,” Assad said during the interview.
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08/11/2012
A landmark study of Kenya’s high-elevation forests shows that the economic cost of deforestation in the East African country exceeds national gains from forestry and logging by more than four-to-one, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) reported.
*Photo: IRIN/Angela Dewan
“Deforestation deprived Kenya’s economy of 5.8 billion shillings ($68 million) in 2010 and 6.6 billion shillings in 2009, far outstripping the roughly 1.3 billion shillings injected from forestry and logging each year,” according to a UNEP news release on 5 November on the joint UNEP-Kenya Forest Service (KFS) study.
The economic impact of Kenya’s five montane forests – called ‘water towers’ as these forests store water during the rainy season and release it slowly, thus ensuring water flow during dry periods – are assessed in the study, entitled The Role and Contribution of Montane Forests and Related Ecosystem Services to the Kenyan Economy.
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08/11/2012
By Christoph Dreier, WSWS*, 8 November 2012 — Shortly after midnight on Thursday morning, the Greek Parliament voted in favor of the country’s fifth austerity program within the last three years. Voting in favor of the sweeping cutbacks were 153 deputies, with 128 voting against and 18 abstentions.
**Greek protests | By Philly boy92 | Wikimedia Commons
Earlier in the afternoon, more than a 100,000 angry workers marched through the rain to the parliament.
They made clear they are no longer prepared to accept the poverty and misery bound up with more cuts. The police forcibly dispersed the protests using tear gas and stun grenades against demonstrators.
The powerful mass demonstration together with a two-day national strike were an expression of the strength of the Greek working class.
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