SYDNEY & KUALA LUMPUR, Sep 18 (IPS) – George Soros, Bill Gates and other pundits have been predicting another financial crisis. In their recent book, Revolution Required: The Ticking Bombs of the G7 Model, Peter Dittus and Herve Hamoun, former senior officials of the Bank of International Settlements, warned of ‘ticking time bombs’ in the global financial system waiting to explode, mainly due to the policies of major developed countries.
Seven Countries Join to Hunt Ships Smuggling Fuel to North Korea
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Ethiopians and Eritreans have been celebrating the reopening of two key crossing points more than 20 years after a border war shut them. Hundreds of people from the two countries hugged each other and some wept as their leaders led celebrations to mark the reopening.
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Rich Nations Vowed Billions for Climate Change. Poor Countries Are Waiting.
Some delegates to a climate change conference in Thailand lament the shortfall in a United Nations program meant to help poor countries.
Environmentalists in over 100 countries coordinated global protests on Saturday demanding that governments end reliance on fossil fuels and move more rapidly toward renewable energy.
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Last year 920,000 children died of pneumonia, mostly in countries without access to expensive medical care. Now a Bangladeshi doctor has fashioned and artificial respirator out of shampoo bottles. It has been routinely deployed in his hospital, and infant pneumonia deaths have dropped by 75%.
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Last year 920,000 children died of pneumonia, mostly in countries without access to expensive medical care. Now an Indian doctor has fashioned and artificial respirator out of shampoo bottles. It has been routinely deployed in his hospital, and infant pneumonia deaths have dropped by 75%.
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E.U. Will Let Countries Decide Whether to Use Daylight Saving
Some countries have lobbied to end the requirement that all 28 member states spring forward and fall back each year.
If Vanuatu Can Ban Single-Use Plastics, so Can the Other Commonwealth Countries!
PORT VILA, Aug 21 (IPS) – Op-ed by Ralph Regenvanu, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vanuatu.
Cradled in the South Pacific, my home country Vanuatu is made mostly of ocean. The Pacific covers 98% of the national jurisdiction. Here, some 280,000 Ni-Vanuatu like myself live simply off the land and sea. We view the ocean as a living ‘bridge’ that connects islands and continents while sustaining life in all its forms. Where we come from, the ocean has a heartbeat.