09/01/2020
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 7 2020 (IPS)* – The latest November 2019 UBS/PwC Billionaires Reportcounted 2,101 billionaires globally, or 589 more than five years before. Earlier, Farhad Manjoo had seriously recommended, ‘Abolish Billionaires’, presenting a moral case against the super-rich as they have and get far, far more than what they might reasonably claim to deserve.
Manjoo also argues that unless billionaires’ economic and political power is cut, and their legitimacy cast in doubt, they will continue to abuse power to further augment their fortunes and influence, in ways detrimental to the economic, social and public good.
Benign billionaires?
In defence of billionaires, Josef Stadler, head of ultra-high net worth at UBS Global Wealth Management, argued that their wealth “has also translated into their philanthropy, as billionaires seek new ways to engineer far-reaching environmental and social change.”
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09/01/2020
(UN News)* — The top UN official in West Africa and the Sahel updated the Security Council on Wednesday [8 January 2020], describing an “unprecedented” rise in terrorist violence across the region.
@OCHA/Eve Sabbagh | A girl runs outside a small community school in Korioume, Mali, where children lack basic equipment, including notepads and pens. Parts of the school have been attacked and in 2013 the village was a Jihadist stronghold.
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09/01/2020
The spread of polio internationally remains a global public health concern, experts meeting in Geneva have concluded. (*).
© UNICEF/Frank Dejongh | A young girl receives a vaccination against polio from a health worker in Kabul, Afghanistan.
The opinion comes in a statement released on Tuesday [7 January 2020] following the latest meeting of the Emergency Committee convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) that provides technical advice on international public health emergencies.
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09/01/2020
7 January 2020 (UN News)* — Countries are being asked to step up assistance to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) which is facing the world’s worst measles epidemic, with more than 6,000 deaths since the start of last year. The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday said some 310,000 suspected cases of the disease have been reported since then.
© UNICEF/Karel Prinsloo | A mother holds her 3-month-old baby as he receives a vaccination against measles at a health centre in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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07/01/2020
On 3rd January 2020, Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, and up to top six others were assassinated by a US military drone and missile attack at Baghdad airport.
Mairead Corrigan Maguire
The cruel assassinations were directly ordered by President Trump and were illegal, immoral and a breach of international law.
This is a serious action that has already increased the fear of escalating violence and potential for war against Iran.
Trump has also ordered an additional 3,000 troops be sent to Iraq (where the US has the largest of its 800 bases in the world).
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07/01/2020
7 Jan, 2020 (RT)* — The US Air Force is sending six B-52 Stratofortress long-range bombers to Diego Garcia, a secretive military outpost in the Indian Ocean, as tension soars in the wake of a US assassination strike on a top Iranian general.
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07/01/2020
The top UN official in Libya has delivered a stern message urging other nations to stop intervening in the country’s ongoing crisis. (*).
UN Libya | On 3 January, four schools came under attack in the Soug al Jum’aa locality, east of Tripoli, causing extensive damage and affecting nearly 3000 students.
Ghassam Salamé, head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (
UNSMIL), was speaking to reporters in New York on Monday
[6 January 2020], following a closed-door meeting of the Security Council.
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07/01/2020
UN Photo/Mark Garten | The UN Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the media at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
The New Year has begun with our world in turmoil. We are living in dangerous times”, said the UN chief, noting that turbulence is only escalating.
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06/01/2020
5 January 2020 (Wall Street International)* — On Friday, 3 January, 2020, progressives in the United States and all peace-loving people throughout the world were horrified to learn that Donald Trump had added to his long list of crimes and imbecilities by ordering the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani, who is a hero in his own country, Iran.
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06/01/2020
6 January 2020 (UN Environment)* — Mangrove ecosystems support the planet and people in unique ways. Many Nigerians living near the river in Cross River State know that. “Mangroves provide the best firewood, as people who roast fish know,” says Idem Williamson, a villager living in Esierebom community in Cross River State. “But by cutting the wood, the mangroves disappeared. And without the mangroves, water floods our houses.”
Shop selling mangrove produce. Photo by UN-REDD
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The need to restore mangroves inspired Williamson to get involved for a
REDD+ project that saw the whole community come together to plant more than 10,000 seedlings.
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HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 