01/12/2015
By John Scales Avery*
1 December 2015
In a recent article, Bruce G. Blair of the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University writes that “The Russian warplane recently shot down inside Turkey’s border with Syria fits a pattern of brinkmanship and inadvertence that is raising tensions and distrust between Russia and U.S.-led NATO….
**Painting shells in a shell filling factory during World War I. | This artistic work created by the United Kingdom Government is in the public domain. | HMSO has declared that the expiry of Crown Copyrights applies worldwide | Wikimedia Commons
… Low-level military encounters between Moscow and Washington are fanning escalatory sparks not witnessed since the Cold War. And there exists a small but steadily growing risk that this escalation could morph by design or inadvertence into a nuclear threat.”
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01/12/2015
A new report launched by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) shows that the total value of illicit heroin and opium trafficked from Afghanistan to Western Europe through the Balkans amounts to some $28 billion every year.*
**Harvested poppy capsules. | Author: Zyance | Wikimedia Commons.
Sixty-five per cent of this total ($18 billion) is generated in Western and Central Europe.
The four largest European markets for heroin – France, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy – account for nearly half of the gross profits, as the major heroin benefits are made by traffickers on the retail markets.
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01/12/2015
30 November 2015 – On the opening day of the United Nations climate change conference (COP21), dozens of announcements were made in Paris by Governments and leaders of the public and private sectors, all aiming to generate climate solutions and build a sustainable future.
In Pasig, Philippines, a city worker cleans the Manggahan Floodway, built to reduce flooding along the Pasig River during the rainy season. Photo: World Bank/Dominic Chavez | Source: UN News Centre
A new initiative to build climate resilience in the world’s most vulnerable countries was launched by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and 13 agencies of the UN system.
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01/12/2015
Warning of a further “dramatic” worsening of the humanitarian situation in Iraq, a senior UN relief official on 30 November 2015 urged increased international support to assist millions in need and to rebuild areas retaken from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) so people can return to their homes “voluntarily and safely.”
A group of internally displaced Iraqi girls queue for food at a community kitchen in a village in Iraqi Kurdistan’s Dohuk governorate. Photo: UNHCR/B. Szandelszky
“The human cost of the crisis is devastating. We are extremely worried that all indicators point to a dramatically worsening situation in the months ahead,” said the UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Kyung-wha Kang in a news release issued by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
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01/12/2015
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, 29 November 2015 (IPS) – On a sunny November day in Addis Ababa the courtyard of the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) centre is packed with people—some attend a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reception clinic, others get essential supplies, while students attend classes, and many simply play volleyball, table football or dominoes to pass the time.
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Benyamin told IPS he came to Ethiopia from Yemen because practising his religion freely just wasn’t an option. After converting from Islam to the Jewish faith, he was put in a psychiatric hospital. “If I’d been sent to court I could have been put to death,” Benyamin adds phlegmatically.
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01/12/2015
30 November 2015 (RT)* – If the Turkish government does not come clean and fight ISIL then the fighting will get to Istanbul, and in no time we will see terrorism on the street of Istanbul and Ankara, warns Mowaffak al-Rubaie, Iraqi MP and Iraq’s Former National Security Advisor.
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**Topographic map of Turkey | Author: Captain Blood | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. | Wikimedia Commons
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ISIS is illegally selling Iraqi and Syrian oil on the black market at low prices. They smuggle crude into Turkey on an industrial scale. Ankara has denied ever buying Islamic State’s oil.
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01/12/2015
30 November 2015 (RT)* – Russia has received additional intelligence confirming that oil from deposits controlled by Islamic State is moved through Turkey on an industrial scale, said Vladimir Putin. President Recep Erdogan said he will resign if this is confirmed.
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**Vladimir Putin | Presidential Press and Information Office | Kremlin.ru | Wikimedia Commons
Moscow has grounds to suspect that the Su-24 was downed by Turkish jets on November 24 to secure illegal oil deliveries from Syria to Turkey, he said speaking on the sidelines of the climate change summit in Paris on Monday.
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