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14/07/2018

Lula and the Future of the Brazilian Coup

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By Pilar Troya Fernández*

12 July 2018 (La Línea de Fuego/openDemocracy)* –  The coup government has failed to overcome the political crisis and reactivate the economy 2 years after impeaching ex-president Rousseff. What will happen now that their main opponent is behind bars? Español
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Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Photo: Ricardo Stuckert on Facebook Lula.

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After more than two years of a coup d’état government in Brazil, a democratic solution has not yet become clear.

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14/07/2018

Rising Sea-Levels – How to Stop a City from Sinking

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July 2018 (UN Environment)* — When William Buco, father of five, moved to Dar-es-Salaam thirty years ago the coastline was unrecognizable to today. He could sit on the beaches and picnic with his friends. Coconut sellers came by with fresh harvests, and newly married couples posed for wedding photographs with the oceanic backdrop. Then the tide turned, and all this began to change.

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Photo from UN Environment.  

Sea-levels rose and eroded the coastline. The tunnel of trees that once flanked the coastal road died from salt poisoning and rotted by the roadside. Businesses corroded along with the coastline – there were no more residents around to sell to.

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14/07/2018

7 Secrets that Forests Have Been Keeping from You

14 July 2018 (FAO)* — Forests do more for us than we realize. They clean our water and filter our air, and they provide food, medicine and fuel for more than a billion people worldwide.
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Where would you find the world’s largest recreation center and the most natural supermarket? Forests wouldn’t have been your first answer, would it?

That’s the thing about forests. They keep secrets.

For too long we have seen trees as purely functional or ornamental, objects in the backdrop or on the sideline. They decorate city streets. They give us shady spots for resting and relief from the sun. They provide us with paper and fuel, fruit and nuts. These benefits are fairly obvious.

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14/07/2018

“Not Enough!”

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By Uri Avnery*

14 July 2018

The State of Israel has no oil wells. It has no gold mines. What has it got? It has the ownership of the remembrance of the Holocaust.

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Uri Avnery

That is worth a lot. Everyone who wants to clean himself from the stain needs a certificate from the State of Israel. Such a document is worth very much. And the larger the guilt of the applicant, the higher the price of the dispensation.

What does that remind us of?

FOR MANY centuries the Catholic Church sold “dispensations”.

These were documents issued by the pope and the cardinals, which allowed the recipient to dispense with religious duties or to do things forbidden by the church.

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14/07/2018

Security Council Imposes Arms Embargo on South Sudan

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The Security Council on 13 July 2018 narrowly passed a measure aimed at stopping the flow of weapons to armed groups in South Sudan, with those Members in favour saying it would protect civilians, while abstainers voiced concerns that it would undermine the ongoing peace process in the world’s youngest country.  
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UNMISS / Eric Kanalstein | A child stands behind Ghanaian Peacekeepers at the makeshift camp next to a base of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) in Leer, South Sudan, where approximately 2,000 civilians have taken refuge from the recent fighting.
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13/07/2018

Trump’s Visit Marks the Start of Shock Doctrine Brexit

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By Adam Ramsay*

The radical right want a no-deal Brexit so they can force Britain into a disaster capitalist trade deal with the USA.

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Image: Trump Baby, Twitter, fair use.

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13 July 2018 (openDemocracy)* – Trump landed with a negotiating position. If Theresa May’s Brexit plan goes ahead, it would probably “kill the deal”, he told The Sun, referring to the trade agreement he’s here to discuss.

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13/07/2018

Humanitarian Situation Worsens as Over 800,000 Displaced People Face Cold and Heavy Rains in Ethiopia

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Dilla, 13 July 218 (IOM)* –  Over 800,000 internally displaced persons are living without adequate shelter and safe sanitation in Ethiopia, resulting in a worsening humanitarian situation further exacerbated by cold, wet weather brought on by the rainy season.
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Samira,* a displaced Ethiopian, holds one of her seven children in front of the tiny space she shares with other families at the Gedeb site. Photo: Olivia Headon/IOM 2018

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13/07/2018

Returning Congolese Find Homes in Ruins, Livelihoods Destroyed

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By Natalia Micevic*

Visiting UNHCR team reports enormous humanitarian challenges in DR Congo’s Ituri province.

The General Hospital site in Bunia, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ituri province.  © UNHCR/Natalia Micevic

TCHOMIA, the Democratic Republic of the Congo,  13 July 2018 (UNHCR)*  – Fishing boats line the shore of Lake Albert in the north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Children play in the shallow water, while adults throng the busy market.

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13/07/2018

Villages ‘Reduced to Ash’ amid ‘Barbaric Violence’ in DR Congo – UN Refugee Agency Reports

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Humanitarian needs are enormous in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, has reported accounts of “barbaric violence”.
UNHCR/Gloria Ramazani | A view of an internally displaced site at the General Hospital in Bunia, Ituri province. 19 March 2018.
In all, 350,000 people are estimated to have fled months of ethnic clashes between the Hema and Lendu groups, in the eastern part of the country.

Spokesperson Charlie Yaxley on 13 July 2018 told journalists in Geneva that UNHCR staff had obtained access to Ituri province, in the northeast of DRC, where people are now returning, only to find their villages and homes “reduced to ash”.

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13/07/2018

These Women Fight Wildlife Conflict in Bangladesh

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13 July 2018 (UN Environment)* — Twenty-eight-year-old wildlife defenders Zenifar Azmiri and Sahrin Jahan have been woken up more than once in the middle of night.

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Photo from UN Environment. 

Their camp in Cox’s Bazar, the largest refugee camp in Bangladesh bordering Myanmar, houses one million Rohingya refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar.

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