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3 June 2020 (Wall Street International)* — The Age of Reason, or the Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas during the 17th to 19th centuries.
On 19 August 1982, at its emergency special session on the question of Palestine, the General Assembly, “appalled at the great number of innocent Palestinian and Lebanese children victims of Israel’s acts of aggression”, decided to commemorate 4 June of each year as the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression.
– Indonesia’s founding President Sukarno delivered his annual Independence or National Day address on 17 August 1964 anticipating the forthcoming year as Tahun vivere pericoloso, the ‘year of living dangerously’. 2020 may well be the world’s turn, and not only due to the obvious Covid-19 threat to the world.
US as number one
With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the US became the world’s sole superpower.
Many argue that after abandoning its pre-Second World War isolationism to become the post-war hegemon, the US has needed threats to justify ever rising military spending for the US ‘military-industrial complex’, as President (General) Dwight D. Eisenhower warned.
This decision affects Air China, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Hainan Airlines, Sichuan Airlines, and Xiamen Airlines.
Air China Airbus A330-300 | Photo: Twitter/ @NewsRadio1470
3 June 2020 (teleSUR)* — The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced that all regular flights by Chinese civilian airlines to and from the United States will be suspended beginning June 16.
(UN News)* — Voices calling for an end to “the endemic and structural racism that blights US society” must be heard and understood, for the country to move past its “tragic history of racism and violence”, the UN Human Rights chief said on Wednesday [3 June 2020].
Geneva, 2 June 2020 (WHO)* — A record number of countries are now monitoring and reporting on antibiotic resistance – marking a major step forward in the global fight against drug resistance. But the data they provide reveals that a worrying number of bacterial infections are increasingly resistant to the medicines at hand to treat them.
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“As we gather more evidence, we see more clearly and more worryingly how fast we are losing critically important antimicrobial medicines all over the world,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO).
Through radio or in classrooms, cattle camp schools ensure education, and greater food security and peace
Ayem, one of the students, after her class. ©FAO/Andreea Campeanu
3 June 2020 (FAO)* — In South Sudan, livestock means life. As South Sudanese herders put it: here, cattle can chase away hunger.
Over 65 percent of the population relies on livestock for their survival. Children grow up on milk. Families survive on meat, milk and cattle’s blood.
Losing one’s cattle is like losing one’s life savings.
A seven-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker pictured at the Fylakio reception and identification centre near the Greek-Turkish border, February 14 2020. © UNHCR/Achilleas Zavallis
2 June 2020 (UNHCR)* — UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is deeply concerned over government-arranged exit of some 9,000 recognized refugees from Greece’s reception system which began yesterday (1 June).
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Plight of Unaccompanied Migrant Children Is Focus of New Campaign
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If the poorest countries are not provided with more assistance, their leaders will be forced to put the economy first
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 