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23/12/24
Author: 
Hamed Aleaziz and Zolan Kanno-Youngs
A family of refugees from Sudan arriving in Connecticut last year. People from the war-torn country are eligible for a program that allows them to live and work legally in the United States.Credit...Todd Heisler/The New York Times

Dec. 20, 2024

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13/12/24
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Associated Press
Mark Rutte: ‘Our deterrence is good – for now. But it’s tomorrow I’m worried about.’ Photograph: Olivier Matthys/EPA

Dec. 13, 2024

Russian president wants to ‘wipe Ukraine off the map’ and could target other European countries next, says Mark Rutte

The Nato secretary general, Mark Rutte, has said that Vladimir Putin wants to “wipe Ukraine off the map” and could come after other parts of Europe next, as he urged Europeans to press their governments to increase defence spending.

13/12/24
Author: 
Jeffrey D. Sachs
A boy carries an unexploded Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) at the site of the previous evening's Israeli airstrike that targeted shipments of weapons that belonged to Syrian government forces in Qamishli, in mainly Kurdish northeastern Syria, on December 10, 2024. The UN special envoy for Syria called on Israel on December 10 to halt its military movements and bombardments in Syria, after a war monitor reported 300 air strikes since the fall of president Bashar al-Assad. (Photo by DELIL SOULEIMAN/ (Photo by

Dec. 12, 2024

American interference, at the behest of Netanyahu’s far-right Israel, has left the Middle East in ruins, with over a million dead and open wars raging in Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine, and with Iran on the brink of a nuclear arsenal.

In the famous lines of Tacitus, Roman historian, “To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.”

13/12/24
Author: 
Sophia P.
Save Old Growth co-founder Zain Haq, who is in Canada from Pakistan on a study permit, has had his deportation halted just three days before Canadian immigration officials were to force him to leave the country. (CBC)

Dec. 13, 2024

Hello,

This December 6th, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) re-initiated Zain Haq’s deportation order. Now, Zain is required to leave for Pakistan by January 21, 2025.

11/12/24
Author: 
Josie Garthwaite, Stanford University
Probability of peak warming in response to cumulative emissions. Credit: Geophysical Research Letters (2024). DOI: 10.1029/2024GL111832

Dec. 10, 2024

Researchers have found that the global goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels is now almost certainly out of reach.

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