27/01/2018
By Richard Casson*
25 January, 2018 (Greenpeace)* — Ever since the first production car rolled off the assembly line more than 100 years ago, our love affair with automobiles has grown and grown. In countries like the UK, France, Italy and Germany there are now around 5 vehicles for every 10 people. In the USA, Australia and New Zealand, the number is higher still.
Traffic jam in Beijing
But, after a century of the automobile playing a central part in our lives, we’re starting to see a shift toward alternative forms of transport. If this trend continues, the car’s domination of global transport could soon come to a spluttering end.
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27/01/2018
Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, 26 January 2018 (IOM)* – “The reason we have the mirror is that after everything that has happened to them, many of the women cannot bear to look at themselves,” says Lufta Bokshi, a psychosocial support officer who is helping Rohingya women refugees in Bangladesh come to terms with life after fleeing deadly violence and rape in Myanmar.
The UN Migration Agency (IOM) opens a new women’s safe space for Rohingya women in one of Cox’s Bazar’s refugee camps. Photo: Fiona Macgregor / UN Migration Agency (IOM) 2018
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27/01/2018
By Neil Clark*
26 January 2018 (RT)* –
– The Swiss resort of Chateaux-d’Oex is known for its hot air balloons. The Swiss resort of Davos is known for hot air. Or at least for one week a year, when some of the world’s biggest windbags meet to discuss ‘significant’ issues.
**Photo: A sports shop has turned into a temporary informal reception location “Caspian week”, WEF 2018 | Author: Anidaat | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
This year, the cool and trendy thing to express concern over at the World Economic Forum is ‘inequality.’ OK, ya?
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27/01/2018
At least 30 refugees and migrants drowned when their boat capsized off the coast of Aden, Yemen, the United Nations on 26 January 2018 reported, saying the overcrowded vessel was believed to have been operated by unscrupulous smugglers who were trying to extort money from the passengers.
Somali refugees wait on Yemen’s Red Sea coast for transport to Aden. Photo: UNHCR/R. Nuri
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) expressed outrage and sadness over the incident, which occurred Tuesday [25 January 2018].
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27/01/2018
Geneva, 26 January 2018 –– IOM, the UN Migration Agency, and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, are outraged and saddened at the drownings of at least 30 refugees and migrants off the coast of Aden, Yemen earlier this week.
Survivors of the incident have reported to UN and partner staff that an over-crowded boat packed with at least 152 Somalis and Ethiopians departed 23 January from the Al Buraiqa coast in Aden in a boat headed across the Gulf of Aden towards Djibouti.
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