29/01/2018
By Leonardo Boff*
22 Jan 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service — Most readers will find it difficult to accept what I am going to express here.
Leonardo Boff
Even though it is based on the best scientific minds that have been studying the universe, the situation of planet Earth and her eventual collapse, or qualitative leap to another level of reality, for almost a century, it has not penetrated into either the collective consciousness or the major academic centers.
The old atomic, mechanistic and deterministic paradigm that arose in the XVI century with Newton, Francis Bacon and Kepler, continues in force, as if Einstein, Hubble, Planck, Heisenberg, Reeves, Hawking, Prigogine, Wilson, Swimme, Lovelock, Capra or so many others who have elaborated a new vision of the Universe and of the Earth had never existed.
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28/01/2018
January 2018 (FAO)* — Somalia boasts the longest coastline of continental Africa.
A woman, in a camp for displaced people in Bossaso, holds a dish made with sun-dried fish. ©FAO/Arete/Will Baxter
Yet, its fisheries industry is one of the least developed in the world; only about 1 percent of the county’s annual gross domestic product (GDP) derives from fishery.
Coastal communities are some of Somalia’s most food insecure people.
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27/01/2018
At least 30 refugees and migrants drowned when their boat capsized off the coast of Aden, Yemen, the United Nations on 26 January 2018 reported, saying the overcrowded vessel was believed to have been operated by unscrupulous smugglers who were trying to extort money from the passengers.
Somali refugees wait on Yemen’s Red Sea coast for transport to Aden. Photo: UNHCR/R. Nuri
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) expressed outrage and sadness over the incident, which occurred Tuesday [25 January 2018].
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25/01/2018
In an increasingly fractured world, change will not happen if the current model of corporate greed continues to dominate the future, 2018 World Economic Forum co-chair Sharan Burrow told EURACTIV in an exclusive interview.
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24/01/2018
22 January 2018 (Wall Street International) — Being in the same place, in the same family, in the same city is to live with the other, to live with others. Simple proximity is what defines the coexistence between people, between beings.
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Proximity also encompasses temporality and is so comprehensive in this sense that it explains the concepts of contemporaneity and antiquity. Coexistence scenarios are experienced (nurtured) now, before and after, both near and far.
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22/01/2018
(Jerusalem) Israeli authorities should abandon a new policy that could lead to the indefinite detention of thousands of Eritrean and Sudanese nationals for refusing to leave Israel for Rwanda or Uganda, Human Rights Watch on 22 January said.
**Photo: The entrance to Holot immigration detention center, Negev desert, Israel. | Author: TrickyH | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
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19/01/2018
A record 4.1 billion passengers took to the skies in 2017 onboard some 37 million scheduled flights globally, the United Nations civil aviation agency on 18 January 2018 reported, highlighting that the fastest growth was seen among low-cost carriers.
An airliner being serviced before takeoff at Frankfurt Airport in Germany. Photo: UN News/Vibhu Mishra
According to preliminary figures released by the UN International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), air travel demand growth too gained “solid momentum” on the back of improved global economic conditions throughout the year.
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19/01/2018
By Akshey Kalra*
15 January, 2018 (Greenpeace)* — This morning, people around the world are waking up to pictures of penguin sightings across the globe. The penguins have been spotted travelling on trains, arriving at international airports and at iconic landmarks. From Sydney to Buenos Aires and from London to Johannesburg, the question on everybody’s mind – what are they here for?
Arriving in Sydney, wasting no time in seeing the iconic Sydney Opera House after the flight.
The penguins are part of a new Greenpeace campaign calling for the creation of the largest protected area on earth: a 1.8 million square kilometre ocean sanctuary in the Antarctic.
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14/01/2018
Mozambican Ngulinda’s story is part of the UN International Organisation for Migration (IOM) series: “i am a migrant“.*
Ngulinda — 7,903 km from home — Current Country: Portugal– Country of Origin: Mozambique — Photo Credit: IOM/Tiago Figueiredo
“I was born in Mozambique and I have lived in Portugal for many years now. I first came on holiday in 2000 and did not want to go back to Mozambique.
My parents ended up accepting my choice, so I stayed here with my grandparents.
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10/01/2018
Geneva, 9 January 2018 (IOM)* – IOM, the UN Migration Agency, reports that 1,072 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea during the first week of 2018, with around 450 each landing in Italy and Greece and the remainder in Spain. This compares with almost an identical number – 1,159 – coming ashore during a similar period in 2017.
Data on deaths at sea, however, are much grimmer. Through the first eight days of the new year, a total of 81 Mediterranean Sea deaths of irregular migrants or refugees were recorded. Five of those deaths were in Western Mediterranean waters off Spain and Morocco.
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