An evangelical pastor will head the upcoming CNN Brasil and the channel will adhere to Bolsonaro’s policies.
Upcoming CNN Brasil’s CEO will be an evangelical pastor. | Photo: Reuters | Photo fromteleSUR.
17 January 2019 (teleSUR)* — Edir Macedo, an evangelist pastor will be the CEO of CNN Brazil. The United States media giant Cable News Network (CNN) will open for the first time in the Latin American country during the first year of the far-right President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration.
Edir Macedo is the founder of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus). He is the main evangelist leader of the country and an open supporter of Bolsonaro and his policies.
Washington’s wars are unendable as well as unwinnable
17 January 2019 (openDemocracy)* — President Trump’s sudden decisions in December to withdraw United States forces from Syria and halve the number of troops in Afghanistan caught almost all his advisors by surprise. They led to the resignation of defense secretary James Mattis, and hasty backtracking in the state department as Turkey vigorously protested.
15 January 2019 (Norwegian Refugee Council)* —A new caravan heading towards Mexico and the United States is reportedly set to leave San Pedro Sula in Honduras on Tuesday 15 January. “The large number of people expected to leave Central America is a true testimony to the desperate situation for children, women and men in this poor and violence affected region,” said Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), Jan Egeland.
In spite of the hardships and the dangers of the journey to Mexico and the US, many Hondurans are still planning on leaving again even though they know of the slim chances of reaching the US. Photo: European Union/ECHO/A. Aragon 2016 | Photo fromNRC.
“Instead of talking about a crisis at the US-Mexican border, North Americans must wake up and address the real humanitarian crisis in Central America”.
17 January 2019 — After fleeing her home in Macina, a small village in central Mali, where she was due to be forced into marriage against her will, 16-year-old Fatouma took shelter with her brother.
UN Women/Sandra Kreutzer | Fatouma in Mali with her mother, brother, his wife and their children. Her family knows how important education is for the 19-year-old’s future.
Having failed the national high school exam twice, coupled with expensive school fees, Fatouma had little choice but to drop out to become a cleaner, earning around $17 a month.
17 January 2019 — Global risks are intensifying but the will to tackle them collectively is eroding, as forces across the planet call for “taking back control”, the World Economic Forum warned in its latest report published on Wednesday (16 January).
A helicopter water-bombing a forest fire raging in Hammarstrand, Sweden, 16 July 2018. Wildfires have been raging in Sweden in what authorities descirbe as the ‘most serious’ situation of modern Swedish history. Environmental risks, including wildfires, top WEF’s ranking of global risks. [EPA-EFE/Mats Andersson] | Photo from EurActiv.
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