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The vital role that fishing and fish-farming play in supporting some of the poorest families across the world, came under the spotlight on 9 July 2018 with the publication of the annual United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report on the global industry.
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9 Jul 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service * — Israel finally built an access road to the West Bank village of Khan Al Ahmar last week, after half a century of delays. But the only vehicles allowed along it are the bulldozers scheduled to sweep away its 200 inhabitants’ homes.
If one community has come to symbolise the demise of the two-state solution, it is Khan Al Ahmar.
It was for that reason that a posse of European diplomats left their air-conditioned offices late last week to trudge through the hot, dusty hills outside Jerusalem and witness for themselves the preparations for the village’s destruction.
That included the Israeli police viciously beating residents and supporters as they tried to block the advance of heavy machinery.
9 July 2018 (UNRWA)* — Nine year old Noor Eideen Nasrallah is from Balata refugee camp, in the northern West Bank. He is a talented third grade student at the UNRWA Balata Basic Boys’ school and has a special hobby: he excels in the field of Intelligent Mental-Arithmetic.
Noor Eideen’s skills have attracted the attention of his teachers, school principal and even the UNRWA West Bank education office. They observed his talent for mental-arithmetic when he was in the first grad. Noor can solve complex equations that have been described to develop both sides of the brain while using the hands and the brain simultaneously.
Significant production increases foreseen over coming decade – Sector faces major challenges.
Rome, Italy, 9 July 2018 (FAO)*– Global fish production will continue to expand over the next decade even though the amount of fish being captured in the wild has levelled off and aquaculture’s previously explosive growth is now slowing, says a new report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
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Davis’ resignation was first reported by the UK’s Press Association on Twitter. The full letter of resignation later appeared in the British media. It is “effective immediately,” according to Reuters, which cites a source close to Davis.
The resignation comes as PM Theresa May is taking flak for the “soft” Brexit deal she is planning to arrange with the EU.
Following the Friday Cabinet meeting at Chequers, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson called agreeing to May’s proposal “polishing a turd,” as he and several other high-ranking officials called for a tougher stance against Brussels.
Geneva, 7 July 2018 (IOM)* – IOM, the UN Migration Agency, reports that 46,449 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea through the first half of 2018. That total compares to 101,213 at this time last year, and over 231,503 at this time in 2016.
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IOM Rome’s Flavio Di Giacomo reported Friday [6 July 2018] that arrivals of irregular migrants to Italy thus far in 2018 are less than one-fifth (19%) the total arriving through mid-year 2017, and less than one-fourth (24%) the total through mid-year 2016.
8 July 2018 — Twenty-three-year-old Kodi Moumdau laughs with a group of young women in brightly coloured shawls in her ward at the National Fistula Centre [Centre National de Référence de Fistule Obstétricale] in the outskirts of Niamey, the capital of Niger. They can consider themselves amongst the lucky women who have been treated for and survived an obstetric fistula condition.
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