The 2020 theme for World Wetlands Day is an opportunity to highlight wetland biodiversity, its status, why it matters and to promote actions to reverse its loss.
The official’s comments disregard the fact that as of Thursday, there have been 8,137 confirmed cases of Wuhan coronavirus in mainland China, including 171 deaths.
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross at the 50th World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 22, 2020. | Photo: Reuters (Photo posted here fromteleSUR‘s article).
30 January 2020 (teleSUR)* — The United States Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said Thursday during an interview with Fox News that the coronavirus outbreak could be a good thing for the U.S. economy as it would bring back jobs.
The top UN official in Libya on Thursday [30 January 2020] expressed his “deep anger and disappointment” over intensifying conflict in Libya despite a high-level summit held in the German capital of Berlin earlier this month, that set out measures to de-escalate fighting and put the divided country back on a path towards peace. (*).
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe | Ghassan Salamé of Lebanon, newly appointed Special Representative and Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya
“There are unscrupulous actors inside and outside Libya who cynically nod and wink towards efforts to promote peace and piously affirm their support for the UN”, Ghassan Salamé, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya, told the Security Council.
(UN News)* — The rise in new coronavirus cases outside China, now constitutes a global health emergency, the World Health Organization’s Emergency Committee declared on Thursday [30 January 2020], calling on all countries to take urgent measures to contain the respiratory disease.
UN News/Jing Zhang | Passengers wear face masks while riding the subway in Shenzhen, China.
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Latest WHO figures state there are more than 7,800 confirmed cases globally, with 7,736 confirmed in China, and a further 12,167 suspected cases inside the country where the outbreak began in Wuhan, a city of around 11 million which remains in lockdown.
29 January 2020 (Wall Street International)* — I am truly a personal fan of any James Bond movie but for me Skyfall was one of the best films ever made in the franchise.
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The dark environment where it is developed shows a complete asymmetry between the classic enemy and our lovely agent 007, because since the beginning of the story, he seems to be in a clear disadvantage from an opponent that is a mastermind in hacking and technology of all kinds.
GENEVA, Jan 24 2020 (IPS)* – The failure of large-scale bailout operations, historically low interest rates and rapid injection of liquidity to bring about a strong recovery from the 2008-2009 financial crisis and recession created a widespread concern that advanced economies suffered from a chronic demand gap and faced the spectre of stagnation.
Inequality out in the open. Credit: A.D. McKenzie/IPS
29 January 2020 (UN Environment)* — At the beginning of this decade, millions of people around the world made new year’s resolutions, with the hope of bettering themselves.
Photo by Pixabay @ Jonny Belvedere
Whether you pledged to exercise more, to save money, or to take up a hobby, the reality is that many pledges are likely to have been broken. However, attitudes toward single-use plastics must change this year.
(UN News)* — More than 800 people died last year crossing deserts, rivers and remote lands while migrating across the Americas, making 2019 one of deadliest years on record, the UN migration agency said on Tuesday [28 January 2020].
28 January 2020 (UN Environment)* — Taking action to stem biodiversity loss was the focus of several events, reports and activities in January—important reminders that 2020, the “Super Year” for nature, is a real opportunity to stop and indeed reverse ecological devastation.
DAYLESFORD, Australia, 28 January 2020 — As we approach the 72nd anniversary of the assassination of Mohandas K. Gandhi on 30 January 1948, it is worth reflecting on one simple fact that he did not realize.
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His efforts to teach humanity that conflict, including violent conflict, could be resolved without violence were based on one fundamentally flawed assumption: that at least some humans were interested in, and committed to, seeking out and using nonviolent strategies for dealing with conflict in each and every context.
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross at the 50th World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 22, 2020. | Photo: Reuters (Photo posted here from teleSUR‘s article).
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