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WORLD
Greek Syrian mayor and refugees bring tourist village back to life
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Parakalounhcr.org – In a two-storey, white-painted apartment beside a picturesque beach, Tarek Al-Felou and his wife, Kinda, are making a shish barak, a Middle Eastern dish of meat dumplings. Their neighbours are some…
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US had extensive contact with Ayatollah Khomeini before Iran revolution | World news | The Guardian
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Mark Geoffrey Kirshnermarkgeoffreykirshner.com – Documents seen by BBC suggest Carter administration paved way for Khomeini to return to Iran by holding the army back from launching a military coup Source: US had extensive contact with Ayatollah …
BUSINESS
Refugees No Pay Back Loans From Taxpayers, Obama’s Orders | RickWells.US
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Peaches Terryrickwells.us – Once again the American taxpayers are providing benefits to others that they are not entitled to receive themselves. An out of work coal miner whose workplace was targeted for extinction by Hussein…
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The 5 richest countries host just 5% of refugees — 86% are in developing countries
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Tina Stevenssalon.com – Those who oppose admitting more refugees in Western countries often ask why other countries aren’t taking them. The reality is they are. In fact, the five wealthiest countries — which make up half …
LEISURE
Accidental activists: the British women on the front line of the refugee crisis
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Barry Shapirotheguardian.com – Last August Lliana Bird and Josie Naughton were just two friends with interesting jobs in London, vibrant social lives and a good set of contacts. Bird, who is 34, is a writer and radio presenter, …
WORLD
UN: Return Saudi-led Coalition to ‘List of Shame’
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Human Rights Watchhrw.org – (New York) – The United Nations secretary-general should immediately return the Saudi-led coalition to his “list of shame” for violations against children in Yemen, Human Rights Watch and 19 other …
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‘Corruption has no limit’: Hooligan Sparrow – the film China doesn’t want you to see | Hong Kong Free Press
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Human Rights Watchhongkongfp.com – Pursued by shadowy security men in plain clothes, New York filmmaker Nanfu Wang mounts the staircase of a decrepit, gloomy apartment block in China, gasping for breath as she reaches the upper floo…
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Institutionalized and Isolated: How Serbia is Failing Children with Disabilities
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Human Rights Watchhuffingtonpost.com – As a passionate advocate for improving the lives of people with disabilities, I’m always eager to learn how different countries approach the obligation of inclusion. So, in late 2014, when I had th…
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“The Uncondemned” is a documentary that retraces the first-ever genocide conviction
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Human Rights Watcheurope.newsweek.com – Michele Mitchell was stuck on Interstate 405 in Southern California when she realized she needed to make a film about sexual violence. It was 2012 and Todd Akin, a former Missouri congressman, ha…
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China: Buddhist Monastery Faces Demolition
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Human Rights Watchhrw.org – (New York) – China’s authorities should suspend plans to demolish residences at a historic Buddhist monastery in Sichuan province and negotiate with the community’s leadership, Human Rights Watch s…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
The original suffragette: the extraordinary Mary Wollstonecraft
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Mark Geoffrey Kirshnermarkgeoffreykirshner.com – Meet the original suffragette: Mary Wollstonecraft. The founder of feminism, a philosopher, travel writer, human rights activist, she was a profound influence on the Romantics, and an educational p…
WORLD
Fearing rejection in Hungary’s cold comfort transit zones
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vincent cochetelunhcr.org – RÖSZKE, Hungary, June 7 (UNHCR) – Omid Ahmadi, a student journalist from the Afghan capital of Kabul, sits in a field on the Serbia-Hungary border and contemplates the fence that separates him from…
EDUCATION
2 Valedictorians in Texas Declare Undocumented Status, and Outrage Ensues
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G’s New & Usednytimes.com – When Mayte Lara Ibarra, the valedictorian of her high school’s graduating class, revealed her plans to attend the University of Texas at Austin on a scholarship, she did what any graduate would do:…
WORLD
Ex-wife of suspected Orlando shooter: ‘He beat me’
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Nervana Mahmoudwashingtonpost.com – The ex-wife of the 29-year-man suspected of killing 50 people in a Orlando nightclub early Sunday said that he was violent and mentally unstable and beat her repeatedly while they were married. The…
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Time to change expectations: zero retribution to zero tolerance
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UN Womenunwomen.org – By Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director The drugging, abduction and violent gang rape of a 16-year-old girl in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil calls us all to t…
SCIENCE
Putting sustainable pastoralism on the global agenda
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UN Environmentunep.org – Nairobi, 9 June 2016 – Pastoralists are stewards of rangelands covering a quarter of the planet’s land surface, providing high value food and protecting globally important biodiversity and ecosyste…
TECHNOLOGY
Pinterest Metrics You Should Be Tracking
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerseowebmarketing.co.uk – Pinterest has become an exceptionally popular social media platform for brands looking to extend the reach of their web marketing efforts. A number of brands who have created and overseen insightfu…
LEISURE
Uvi Poznansky: Cover design for The Music of Us
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MarkGeoffreyKirshneruviart.blogspot.com – In designing the cover for The Music of Us I had in mind a particular passage from the book, where Natasha is just about to perform, and her hand is raised over the keys in contemplation of the not…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
whatitfeelslikeforandy
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerwhatitfeelslikeforandy.tumblr.com – Unseen images from the iconic photographer’s extensive archive A jeshvan è piaciuto A mieeve è piaciuto spaceship-mariana ha rebloggato questo post da nowness A spaceship-mariana è piaciuto A elyps…
LEISURE
Vintage Photos Of The First Modern Olympics Show Sports Are Timeless
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerhuffingtonpost.com – ATHENS, Greece — As the world prepares for this year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, an exhibition in Greece is taking visitors on a digital journey back to the first modern Olympic Games in Athens …
SPORTS
Girls kick violence with Grassroot Soccer
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UN Womenunwomen.org – On a windy afternoon in Khayelitsha, the largest informal township in Cape Town, South Africa, over 100 adolescent girls between the ages of 10-14 from Yomelela Primary School gathered to play socc…
LEISURE
The Non-Smoker’s Guide to Amsterdam’s Coffee Shops
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Exploretravelereatingamsterdamtours.com – It’s the elephant in the room: no matter how cultured, foodie or health-conscious you are, if you tell your friends and family you’re visiting Amsterdam, they’re bound to ask if you plan to smoke w…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
#Review #BookTour – The Rest of my Life by Sheryl Browne #Giveaway
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Susan Tarrcancersuckscouk.ipage.com – It’s always a pleasure to welcome Sheryl to the blog .. such a lovely lady & one of my favourite authors. If you haven’t yet read any of her books do yourself a favour & start now 🙂 There is the o…
LEISURE
Portrait of Postman Joseph Roulin by Van Gogh Canvas Print
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Abo Faisalzazzle.com – Portrait of Postman Joseph Roulin by Van Gogh Canvas Print Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin by Vincent Van Gogh, oil on canvas 1889, is a painting of a bearded man in blue postal uniform with …
LEISURE
Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom June 4-10
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BINGBING Readjudithstarkston.com – Here are some posts I enjoyed around the web this week: Roman writing tablets found in London mud. One of them has the earliest reference to Londinium (Roman name) from about AD 65-80. Another show…
LEISURE
The Art of Deception 18 #wewriwar #amwriting
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Glenn Soucyrharrisonauthor.com – Welcome to Weekend Writing Warriors. This week continues a spy story set in late Georgian England, the year before Trafalgar. Last week, they exchanged words, and Roderick gave her a French recogni…
LEISURE
7 Questions Sunday: David & Jason Benham Living Among Lions – Life Letter Cafe
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David JB Millerlifelettercafe.com – LifeLetter Cafe: What is the tipping point between individuals like yourself refusing to compromise your faith and beliefs in God . . and an entire culture experiencing revival? The Benham’s: Boldn…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
The Black Journalist and the Racist Mountain
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HoneymoonGondoltheatlantic.com – Howard French has an interesting piece in The Guardian tackling “the enduring whiteness of American media.” French’s claim is two-fold: 1.) Big media organizations have failed to produce a staff th…
WORLD
Iran: Most recent backlash against Baha’is exposes authorities’ extreme intolerance for religious minority group
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UN Human Rightsohchr.org – GENEVA (8 June 2016) – Two United Nations human rights experts today said that the current wave of incitement of hatred of the Baha’i community reflected in speeches made by religious, judiciary an…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Film Club | 6 Must-Watch Gender-Related Documentaries for Teens
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UN Womenlearning.blogs.nytimes.com – For our final Film Club of this school year, we’re doing something a bit different. Instead of highlighting one short documentary film, three teenagers from our spring Student Council have suggeste…
WORLD
Dispatches: Still No Justice for UK’s Role in Rendition and Torture
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Human Rights Watchhrw.org – In 2011, Human Rights Watch found documentary evidence in Tripoli that UK authorities were involved in the rendition of Abdul Hakim Belhadj and his wife Fatima Boudchar to Libya in 2004, and in the…
WORLD
Crimes against humanity in Eritrea
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Human Rights Watchohchr.org – A man recalled the day he was sent, along with his friend, to Wi’a military training camp in Eritrea. The day after he arrived, the guards sent them on a training exercise that entailed a 15 kilome…
LEISURE
Ladakh Adventure Expedition and Cultural Journey India
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froth1000milejourneys.com – Ladakh Adventure Expedition and Cultural Journey. Set deep in the Indian Himalayas on the western edge of the Tibetan plateau, Ladakh , or “Little Tibet” is one of the driest and highest inhabited …
SCIENCE
For a More Creative Brain, Travel
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Dayton Jamestheatlantic.com – There are plenty of things to be gained from going abroad: new friends, new experiences, new stories. But living in another country may come with a less noticeable benefit, too: Some scientists say…
WORLD
Gulf war syndrome: British Legion calls for more help for veterans
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Arun John Gotttheguardian.com – The Royal British Legion is calling on the government to do more to help veterans suffering from Gulf war syndrome. Up to 33,000 former soldiers could be living with illnesses linked to serving in …
LEISURE
10 Most Popular Posts of 2015 | Girl vs Globe
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〔ブロード〕broadband_stargirlvsglobe.com – As we near the end of 2015, I think it’s safe to say that this year has been an absolute game changer for ‘Girl vs Globe’. Thanks to you (yes, I mean you specifically!) I have been able to take up …
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Confessions Intimes 22 : Jumelles
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Dominique Hasselmannlescosaquesdesfrontieres.com – Encore une journée comme les autres, sans surprise. Une journée de cire, figée dans le temps. Une journée de silence, sourde et muette. Ils sont partis depuis si longtemps. La maison est vide sans …
POLITICS
Eric Holder: Fingerprinting Is Racist
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StopTerrorismInUSAtownhall.com – I was surprised to read about Holder’s opposition, as I have trouble seeing Holder as a model for social justice. As deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration, Holder gave a “neutral-le…
LEISURE
8 Marvelous Rock Cut Structures in India – Mapping Megan
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Glenn Soucymappingmegan.com – Rock cut architecture has been a major part of the history and culture of India. From temples and caves to living spaces cut into the hillside, Indian rock cut architecture is more diverse and foun…
SCIENCE
Greenland’s big meltdown in 2015 wore jet stream’s fingerprints
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#ActOnClimateinsideclimatenews.org – Extraordinary melting in Greenland’s ice sheet last summer was linked to warm air delivered by the wandering jet stream, a phenomenon that scientists have increasingly tied to global warming. This …
BUSINESS
Government’s Proposed Superannuation Policy May Have a Devastating Effect on Divorcees
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sircogoldszabosolicitors.com.au – If you have lost your superannuation in a divorce settlement, you face losing the ability to replace it under the proposed super changes. Non concessional contributions (made after tax) will be lim…
LEISURE
Wildcraft Brewery
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EmbracingMyselfcrowdfunder.co.uk – Wildcraft brewery has been born out of a love for wild, foraged ingredients, many of which will be used in our beers. We want to create unique, amazing tasting ales, that will blow you away. As we…
TECHNOLOGY
Google’s Project Tango Phone Is Finally (Finally!) Here
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Nicky Santorogizmodo.com – At. Last. The great leap in smartphoning that all us schlubs have been waiting for is here. Point your phone at a wall to measure how wide it is, or choose a table on Wayfair and put it in your din…
WORLD
NEW NOVELS FOR 2016
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The Cover Collectionwaynezurlbooks.net – Coming in June: A TOUCH OF MORNING CALM Sam Jenkins’s experience as a New York detective and Tennessee police chief may be varied, but none is more interesting than his encounter with Korean organi…
LEISURE
Flooding in Paris: Exceptional Weather or the New Normal? – Alex Verbeek
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Hope Thomasalexverbeek.net – Slowly but surely, climate change will start to influence daily life. One day, you’ll realize that some misfortune has happened to you that is caused by climate change. From then on, it is no longe…
EDUCATION
HEGEL, LA NOTTOLA DI MINERVA
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Abou Reda ابو رظاfilosofico.net – Nella Prefazione ai Lineamenti di filosofia del diritto è presente la famosa espressione “Ciò che è razionale è reale, ciò che è reale è razionale”.La filosofia come sapere epistemico non s’interes…
SCIENCE
Elephant calves more likely to survive in the care of their grandmothers
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nicoletta grassisciencedaily.com – Grandmothers often provide vital childcare in human communities across the world. In traditional societies such help even increases grandchildren’s survival prospects and leads to shorter birth int…
WORLD
La mort de louis XVII ou le symbole de la haine à la française
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deboutsion hassibabvoltaire.fr – Le 8 juin, les royalistes font mémoire de la mort de Louis XVII en 1795. Tous les royalistes ? Non. Que cela plaise ou non, Louis XVII fut, dès l’âge de sept ans, un enfant martyr au sort atroce : …
WORLD
David Cameron squirms over alleged Tory election fraud during BBC interview
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Clive Farndonmirror.co.uk – David Cameron squirmed under questioning over the Tory election fraud allegations, during an interview this morning. He was asked by the BBC’s Andrew Marr whether he had authorised the party dispat…
BUSINESS
Everything Is Awesome And Everything Is Awful – Mattermark
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Mary Oehlerichmattermark.com – tl;dr: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. The 2016 tech market is a confusing place. Public tech stocks took a beating early in the quarter, leading to fear of a dramatic valuatio…
BUSINESS
‘Creative industry can end unemployment’ – The Nation Nigeria
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Doro Happythenationonlineng.net – Foluke George is the brain behind the Vision of the Child (VoTC) project. With over 123 paintings in its yearly art competitions, VoTC has been nurturing young talents. The 2016 edition, which ende…
TECHNOLOGY
Instagram 3rd Party App Crack-Down Arrives Early
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#Chaos_Fractalsinstarevealed.com – Instagram has detailed scheduled changes coming to 3rd party apps on June 1st, 2016, but we are seeing a LOT of changes early. now, Read it later Well, it looks like Instagram is putting those June…
WORLD
The Latest: ‘It sounded like fireworks – pop, pop, pop’
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RODObigstory.ap.org – ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on the shooting at an Orlando nightclub (all times local): Families and friends are awaiting word outside an Orlando hospital to learn whether their loved ones are a…
LEISURE
The Moroccan Garden of One Man’s Dreams
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Citizen Halonytimes.com – I FIRST CAME HERE, to this patch of dusty land 40 miles south of Tangier, 18 years ago. Tired after a long walk, I fell asleep under a fig tree and had a strange dream, full of words whose relation…
SCIENCE
WTF: Why Do Birds Sit on Telephone Wires?
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Arun John Gottsevendaysvt.com – The snarky response? “Because it’s easier than sitting in a circle.” Or perhaps “Because they can.” But what really attracts birds to human-strung wires, even when there are plenty of tree branches…
POLITICS
Gun measures fail in Senate
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KHARY PENEBAKERpolitico.com – Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid took to the Senate floor on Thursday morning to chide his colleagues. | AP Photo By Burgess Everett and Seung Min Kim One day after the deadliest U.S. mass shootin…
WORLD
FBI criminal investigation emails: Clinton approved CIA drone assassinations with her cellphone, report says
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Ray Sultzsalon.com – The FBI has been conducting a criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information for months. An explosive new report reveals just what it is that the FBI is looking to…
WORLD
How Clinton Donor Got on Sensitive Intelligence Board
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Margaret Whiteabcnews.go.com – Newly released State Department emails help reveal how a major Clinton Foundation donor was placed on a sensitive government intelligence advisory board even though he had no obvious experience in …
SPORTS
Governor: County attorney job unusual ‘for a young lady’
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Era Haxhiubigstory.ap.org – JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant said Saturday he was expressing pride in his daughter when he said her job as a county board of supervisors’ attorney is “usually not a position f…
POLITICS
Gabby Giffords Applauds Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy’s Signature of Bipartisan Bill to Protect Domestic Violence Survivors, Help Keep Guns Out of the Hands of People Under Temporary Restraining Orders – Americans for Responsible Solutions
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Helen Magnavitaamericansforresponsiblesolutions.org – June 2, 2016 – Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, the Co-Founder of the national gun violence prevention organization Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS), today applauded Connecticut Go…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
TripleSix – A NEW International Horror Film Festival for Manchester UK in 2017 – The Slaughtered Bird
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John T. Biggstheslaughteredbird.com – 2 of Britain’s leading horror websites, UK Horror Scene and The Slaughtered Bird, have teamed up to bring the UK a new horror film festival in May 2017. TripleSix will be a 2-day horror film festiv…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Online risks for children — Photography and social change
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Kent Pagemedium.com – With the many opportunities now available to them online, children are accessing different social media sites and the Internet through their mobile phone, personal computer or both. Teenagers visit…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Thing, a short biography
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnernataliaantonova.com – Once upon a time, there was a girl who had an official name – the name in her birth certificate, a name for bureaucrats and people who didn’t know her well – and a true name. The true name was Thin…
WORLD
Muhammad #Ali’s Humility, My Greatest Lesson
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerdiplomatartist.com – He was so different that we might have expected him to go to the grave screaming of his greatness. However, we all saw a piece of ourselves in him, and his greatest character strength was that he s…
SCIENCE
FANTOMATIK: Secret garden
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerpinterest.com – Kirlian Photography, Amazing Flower, Photography Technique, Electrified Flowers, Electrified Plant, Electrocuted Flower Photos of Flowers Being Shocked With 80,000 Volts | DeMilked http://www.demil…
LEISURE
This vegan leather is made from a truly sustainable source: pineapples
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerglobalcitizen.org – You’ve probably heard of pleather or PVC, but what about faux leather made from pineapples? London-based company Ananas Anam has found a way to use the leaves of this tropical fruit to make a truly…
SCIENCE
How to apply – Royal Academy of Engineering
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerraeng.org.uk – Policy Engineering policy Current issues Responses to government and other bodies Panel for Biomedical Engineering PolicyNet Engineering Policy Committee International activities International miss…
ENVIRONMENT
Water Scarcity Could Impact West Asian Credit Ratings
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UN Developmentipsnews.net – NAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 9 2016 (IPS) – Water scarcity, conflict and refugee exodus is the strongest megatrend in West Asia, indicating the status of current trends and how these factors may shape the f…
POLITICS
Regional Parliamentary Forum in Causeni:
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UN Developmentmd.undp.org – 40 residents from Causeni, Stefan Voda, Tiraspol, Tighina and Grigoriopol districts met with members of the Parliament and representatives of the Parliamentary Constituency and Information Offices …
ENVIRONMENT
Building a brighter future for rice farmers in Cambodia
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UN Developmentundp.org – Farmers in the small community of Tuol Sdey, in the Svay Rieng province of southeastern Cambodia, have reason to be happy. For the first time in decades they can rejoice in having two harvests in o…
BUSINESS
Kenya to Host 6th Tokyo International Conference on African Development
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UN Developmentafrica.undp.org – African and Asian heads of state and government, representatives of private sector, international organizations and civil society will convene in Nairobi, Kenya during 27-28 August 2016 for the Six…
SCIENCE
What the public sector can learn from startups
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UN Developmentdevex.com – How can we learn more quickly what works, and discard what doesn’t? This question is at the core of virtually every startup across the globe. Launching a new product or service with limited resourc…
BUSINESS
UNDP, UNFPA, UNOPS: Executive Board
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UN Developmentnorway-un.org – I am pleased to deliver this statement on the Midterm review of the UNDP integrated budget on behalf of Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, the Un…
ENVIRONMENT
Bhutan joins nations to pioneer a new financing approach for biodiversity conservation
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UN Developmentundp.org – With SDG 15 on ‘Life on Land’ as a Royal Government priority, the UNDP-led BIOFIN project kicks off in the world’s only ‘carbon-negative’ nation. National biodiversity and climate partners are set …
ENVIRONMENT
Ethnic minorities escape poverty in Viet Nam
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UN Developmentvn.undp.org – In Muong Lat, a mountainous district of the Thanh Hoa province in Viet Nam, Luong Thi Xuan’s family is now better-off by raising Kerria Lacca, an insect that lives on palm trees and produces shella…
ENVIRONMENT
El Niño adds to Asia’s climate fears – raconteur.net
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UN Developmentraconteur.net – In Can Tho, the commercial and political heart of the Vietnamese Mekong, pleasure cruisers float on the water by night, neon hoardings pulsing across the river while young people lark about on the …
ENVIRONMENT
This is how cities can fight climate change
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UN Developmentweforum.org – Cities are a crucial area for taking action on climate change. By 2050, over two thirds of mankind will live in cities. Cities generate roughly 80% of global GDP and account for more than 60% of al…
ENVIRONMENT
Helen Clark: Speech at the “Wildlife and Forest Crime” event
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UN Developmentundp.org – President and CEO of the Wildlife Conservation Society, Dr. Cristián Samper; Hon. Edna Molewa, Minister of Environment of South Africa; Hon. Grant Shapps, Minister of State of the United Kingdom; E…
LEISURE
It’s in the Bag for UNICEF | Riviera Buzz
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerriviera-buzz.com – I had a wonderful opportunity to take photographs of the delightful singer and actress Bobbi Crawford at Le Negresco in Nice. You may ask why a patchwork handbag features in every single shot? Let …
WORLD
Voice of Free Iran (VOFI): Iran: silent army of unemployed people will topple the regime
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnervofi-news.blogspot.com – Neglecting population and housing numbers in the past few years, and lack of adequate planning by the government, have led to a major unemployment crisis in the society, in a way that one can say a…
SCIENCE
Scientists catch a black hole in an unusual feeding frenzy
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerwashingtonpost.com – An artist’s illustration of the black hole devouring cold clouds. (NRAO/AUI/NSF and Dana Berry/SkyWorks) Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a black hole chowed down on a chilly supper of cold gas…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
The Picture | The Story by David Fahey – The Eye of Photography
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerloeildelaphotographie.com – I have always collected portraits of artists. My reasons are quite simple– I have a curiosity to see how artists present themselves in front of a camera. Creative people exude an indefinable presen…
WORLD
Palestinian prisoners speak out on ICRC family visit cuts, pledge to boycott ICRC
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Sarah Leah Whitsonsamidoun.net – The International Committee of the Red Cross has announced that it plans to implement a 50% cut in family visits for Palestinian men prisoners beginning in July 2016. Over the objections of Palesti…
WORLD
U.S. officials: No evidence of direct ISIS link to Orlando shooting
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Amor Shabbi عمر شابيreuters.com – WASHINGTON U.S. officials said on Sunday they had seen no immediate evidence of any direct connection between the worst mass shooting in U.S. history and Islamic State or any other foreign extremis…
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Vengeance Reigns in New Staging of ‘Elektra’
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerhuffingtonpost.com – Vengeance may best be served cold for some people, but in Strauss’s Elektra it is a rite of unbridled passion and Nina Stemme conveys all its fury in a fiery performance of the title role in the Me…
SCIENCE
Google Scholar: Providing Academic Results
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerseowebmarketing.co.uk – Google Scholar is a search engine that provides academic results to its users, showing links to journal articles or theses on a selected topic. It’s free to access, and scans the text of academic l…
LEISURE
✿ Earl MORAN (1893 -1984) ✿ – Catherine La Rose Poesia e Arte
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnermarkgeoffreykirshner.com – A young model named Norma Jean Dougherty approached this famed artist in an attempt to pose for a painting. For four years Moran painted Marilyn Monroe and they created a lasting friendship. She al…
LEISURE
Gorgeous Photos Show How This Charity Is Helping Kids In Cuba ‘Free Their Minds’
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerhuffingtonpost.com – Rene Lecour remembers feeling like an outsider as a teen until he found a place in what he calls the “punk rock BMX skate culture.” But during a family skate trip to Havana in 2010, he learned that…
WORLD
Lessons Learnt from 67 Years of UNWRA Support to the Education of Palestinian Refugees
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnernorrag.wordpress.com – By Husein Abdul-Hamid, Joel Reyes, Harry Patrinos, World Bank. Delivery of education services to communities in conflict-ridden states requires an adjustment in the education model to make it meani…
ENVIRONMENT
Sickening images show 88 frozen crocodile tails seized in China
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerdailymail.co.uk – Police in China have seized 88 frozen crocodile tails along with 70 frozen wild Siamese crocodiles from smugglers in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The gruesome discovery was made …
ART & ENTERTAINMENT
LA Film Fest Winners: “HEIS (chronicles),” “Political Animals,” “Paint it Black” All Honored — Women and Hollywood
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerblog.womenandhollywood.com – The LA Film Festival, produced by Film Independent, has announced the winners of the 2016 fest. The festival, which ran from June 1–9 this year, handed out juried awards in the categories of: U.S. …
SCIENCE
Watch Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the US, shrink dramatically over 15 years
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnervox.com – Earlier this week, I wrote about how Lake Mead, America’s largest man-made reservoir, has shrunk to its lowest level ever. It’s a huge deal for the 25 million people in California, Arizona, Nevada,…
WORLD
Yemen’s warring sides agree to release child prisoners – U.N. envoy
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnernews.trust.org – DUBAI, June 6 (Reuters) – The parties to over a year of civil war in Yemen have agreed to release all child prisoners they are holding, U.N. envoy to peace talks in Kuwait Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed …
WORLD
Three ways activists use media to support freedom
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerfnf-europe.org – The fight for freedom is not the sole prerogative of the political arena. In countless countries around the world freedom is being oppressed and it is up to civil society and committed individuals …
LEISURE
My Sweet Engagement | wedding inspirations (SweetEngagement)
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerpinterest.com – Because Love is Sweet. Inspirational wedding blog. ♥ Follow us on Instagram (@mysweetengagement) and Facebook.com/mysweetengagement Wedding Dresses My Sweet Engagement | wedding inspirations Follow…
POLITICS
A Corruption Crusade in Guatemala
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnernytimes.com – Last year, Guatemalans watched in awe as their president, Otto Pérez Molina, and his vice president, Roxana Baldetti, were charged in a kickback scheme and forced from power. This month brought a s…
TECHNOLOGY
The Screen Conspiracy eBook: Maxwell Black: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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MarkGeoffreyKirshneramazon.co.uk – Format: Kindle Edition Verified Purchase In Jack Halpin, Maxwell Black has created a character who most people of a certain age will relate to. In an ever changing, technical world, Jack finds hims…
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Rising temperatures could cut 3.6% of India’s daylight work hours by 2025
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerscroll.in – India is set to lose 3.6% of annual daylight work hours by 2025 due to rising temperatures, reveals an IndiaSpend analysis of data in a new United Nations report. The loss of daylight work hours co…
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Aung San Suu Kyi Is in Power. So Why Is She Ignoring Her Country’s Most Vulnerable People?
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerforeignpolicy.com – As Burma’s new government gets down to business, one thing is increasingly clear — there won’t be much to look forward to for the country’s one million or so Rohingya people. The West has rejoiced …
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Dishing it up/ with Sharon Insul
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnertableofferingsblogdotcom.wordpress.com – Come sit with me for awhile . . . and see what I’m bringing to the table © Yes, yes I know Halloween is barely over, and here I come with thoughts of Thanksgiving tabelscapes . . . Sheesh!!! We…
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Donate – Animal Hope and Wellness
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MarkGeoffreyKirshneranimalhopeandwellness.org – The Animal Hope and Wellness Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit foundation. We welcome any donations to help us rescue more dogs and care for them at the rescue. All donations are tax deductible. O…
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Sign the petition against the Yulin Dog Meat Festival
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MarkGeoffreyKirshneraction.hsi.org – I respectfully urge you to end the mass slaughter and consumption of dogs for the annual dog meat ‘festival’ in Yulin to be held on June 21st. I was shocked to learn that thousands of dogs and cats…
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The Robert Mapplethorpe photo you haven’t seen: The one he took of me
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerlatimes.com – I first met Robert Mapplethorpe in the elevator of the Chelsea Hotel in 1973, when I was 4. My father had just died in a car accident, and my mother was simply lost. The New York hotel was a perfec…
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How I Learned to Love Yoko Ono
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnernytimes.com – Yoko Ono is not pretty, she is not easy, her paintings aren’t recognizable, her voice is not melodious, her films are without plot and her Happenings make no sense. One of her paintings you are tol…
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Arthur Rothstein
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerlis471.wordpress.com – Darrel Coble is the youngest boy pictured in Fleeing a Dust Storm, the boy who was directed by Rothstein to cover his eyes with his arm. Ganzel photographed Coble, in his home, still in Cimerron Co…
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The Picture | The Story par David Fahey – L’Œil de la photographie
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerloeildelaphotographie.com – J’ai toujours collectionné les portraits d’artistes. La raison en est simple, j’ai toujours eu la curiosité de voir comment les artistes faisaient face à l’objectif. Les artistes dégagent souvent u…
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After Nine-Year Battle, Illinois Will Provide 11,000 Prisoners With Mental Health Care
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerthinkprogress.org – Illinois, a state that gutted mental health funding by 31.7 percent between 2009 and 2012, will soon guarantee specialized mental health services for 11,000 prisoners. Under the terms of a final se…
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Tajikistan: Verdicts of Opposition Activists Travesty of Justice
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerhrw.org – (Washington) – Tajikistan’s Supreme Court sentenced leaders of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) on June 2, 2016 to lengthy prison terms on charges of attempting to overthrow the g…
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This Startup Trains Africa’s Elite Coding Apprentices For Giants Like IBM & Microsoft
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerfastcompany.com – As a teenager growing up in Lomé, the capital of Togo, Faiçal Tchirou taught himself to code at a cybercafé. He wanted to help his mother manage the small pharmacy she owned. Prescription orders, i…
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Get a Fly-on-the-Wall View of John Lennon Recording & Arranging His Classic Song, “Imagine” (1971)
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MarkGeoffreyKirshneropenculture.com – In a recent interview, the perennially cheerful Paul McCartney talked candidly about his depression after the Beatles’ 1970 breakup, a revelation that may have come as a surprise to some people giv…
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How a Museum Cancelling a Controversial Mapplethorpe Exhibition Changed My Life
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnersmithsonianmag.com – Twenty-seven years ago, controversy erupted over Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs. It changed my life. In June 1989, I was 22, a newly declared art history major at Northwestern University, about …
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Barack Obama: “I’m with her.”
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnernewsweek.com – Updated | President Barack Obama on Thursday endorsed Hillary Clinton, his former secretary of state, for president of the United States. “I want to congratulate Hillary Clinton for making history …
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IKEA Redesigns Its Big Blue Bag For The First Time Ever
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerfastcodesign.com – Short of Swedish meatballs and Billy bookcases, the simple blue-and-yellow bag (technically known as the Frakta) might be IKEA’s most iconic product. Debuting in 1996, more than 3 million Big Blues…
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Voyager
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnergrandosicua.deviantart.com – OK, weird story time. Bear with me here. This piece made me immediately think of the song “Death of a Cosmonaut” and so I went to youtube and tried to find a link to it but there wasn’t one. Instea…
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Why Is American Democracy So Broken, and Can It Be Fixed?
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerthenation.com – Few elections in the Western world offer the spectacle that is an American presidential race. While Brits tend to keep a stiff upper lip when jockeying for position, and Canadians prefer the power …
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Queen’s 90th birthday is marked at Trooping the Colour parade – BBC News
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerbbc.co.uk – Thousands of people turned out to watch the annual Trooping the Colour parade on the Queen’s official 90th birthday. Dressed in a vivid lime green coat and matching hat, the Queen was escorted down…
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Wars and poverty force Gaza children to work
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerdailymail.co.uk – Instead of going to school, Walid and Ibrahim spend hours each day rummaging through houses destroyed in Gaza’s wars in search of scrap to raise a few shekels for their families. They were once goo…
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David Lynch presenta la historia del cine surrealista – ENFILME.COM
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerenfilme.com – ¿Qué director, aún con vida, ha sido catalogado con mayor frecuencia como “surrealista”? Creador de atmósferas intrigantes como Eraserhead (1977), Lost Highway (1997), Mulholland Drive (2001), Inla…
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‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ part two: Is this darkest story yet?
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnereurope.newsweek.com – Tuesday night saw the first performance of part one of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child , J.K. Rowling’s new stage play that takes place 19 years after the events of her best-selling novels, and o…
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In Conversation with Anaïs Volpé director of the film HEIS (chronicles) @ LA Film Festival 2016
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerwomenoccupyhollywood.com – Cinema as a form of expression. Cinema as a necessity. Cinema as an art form. These are the urgencies that move Anaïs Volpé, the young actress-writer-director-producer who envisioned the cross-medi…
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Hackers selling stolen Twitter log-in data
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerfrance24.com – Tens of millions of stolen Twitter credentials evidently lifted from web browser programs were put up for sale online, according to a search engine devoted to leaked data. Twitter on Thursday was a…
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Omar Sharif Jr. on Coming Out: ‘I Had Suicidal Thoughts…Then Something Wonderful Happened’
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerout.com – Omar Sharif Jr. recently gave a speech at the 2016 Oslo Freedom Forum, a global platform for human rights defenders to share their stories. When he came out in a 2012 letter published in The Advoca…
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Labour MP John Mann Comes Out For Brexit
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnernews.sky.com – Labour MP John Mann has thrown his support behind the campaign to leave the European Union, and says he thinks a majority of the party’s voters could very well back a Brexit on 23 June. In an open …
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Moving Up to the Big Leagues, 1946 — Central Intelligence Agency
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnercia.gov – On July 11,1946 the new Central Intelligence Group formally created its first operational unit, the Office of Special Operations. Formed from the remnants of William Donovan’s wartime Office of Str…
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The possibility of flying taxi drones was among the things we learned this week
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnereurope.newsweek.com – From the possibility of an artificial intelligence “off switch” to bulletproof bookbags, here are five things we learned this week in Tech and Science: What if Skynet, the fictional artificial int…
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Child marriage in Nepal: ‘A girl is a girl, not a wife’
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnertheguardian.com – “Am I a girl, or a mother?” Rachana Sunar opens her speech at the Oslo Freedom Forum quoting one of the child brides she has been supporting in the past four years. It is poignant to think that a 1…
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Read Joe Biden’s letter to the Stanford University rape victim
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnereurope.newsweek.com – Vice President Joe Biden, who in 1990 introduced the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), has penned an open letter to the Stanford University sexual assault victim in which he commends her for speak…
WORLD
Remembering CIA’s Heroes: Nels “Benny” Benson — Central Intelligence Agency
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnercia.gov – This is part of our series about CIA employees who have made the ultimate sacrifice. Here we will look at the lives of the men and women who have died while serving their country. Currently, there …
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Surprisingly Simple Ways You Can Trick Your Brain Into Focusing
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerfastcompany.com – What separates strategic, visionary thinkers from the rest of us? And why do we tend to worry about our ability to remember names—or where our keys are—rather than loss of cognitive memory that mak…
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Laura Taylor ebooks, NOOK Books
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerbarnesandnoble.com – You are looking at NOOK Books Refine by Subjects Business Computers Fiction Graphic Novels & Comics Kids Mystery & Crime Romance Science Fiction & Fantasy Self-Help & Relationships Advertising Show…
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DNI Clapper, FBI Director Comey and DIA Director Stewart To Salute #LGBTSpies at #2016ICPride Summit
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerodni.gov – DNI Clapper, FBI Director Comey and DIA Director Stewart To Salute #LGBTSpies at #2016ICPride Summit NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ODNI News Release No. 13-16 June 8, 2016 DNI Clapper, FBI Dir…
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Elizabeth Warren for Vice President? Yes, That’s Possible
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerthenation.com – Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren has been ripping into the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee for president with the precision and focused fury of a great prosecutor. “Donald Trump says t…
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Oslo Freedom Forum 2016
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerkasparov.com – The Oslo Freedom Forum 2016, an annual gathering of human rights activists, journalists, former heads of state and sympathizers, took place in Oslo from May 23 to 25th 2016. This year, the Oslo Fre…
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Marilyn Monroe’s Unpublished Poems: The Complex Private Person Behind the Public Persona
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerbrainpickings.org – Did you ever begin Ulysses? Did you ever finish it? Marilyn Monroe did both. She took great pains to be photographed reading or holding a book — insistence born not out of vain affectation but of a…
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Van Gogh Museum verwerft schilderij ‘De druivenoogst’
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerhistoriek.net – Het Van Gogh Museum heeft zijn collectie verrijkt met het schilderij De druivenoogst uit 1880 van de Franse kunstenaar Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884). Het werk is in maart 2016 aangekocht op de T…
ENVIRONMENT
GEF Steps Up Efforts to Combat Wildlife Crime with Additional $40 Million to Expand Program – UNEP
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UN Environmentunep.org – Washington DC, June 8, 2016 – The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council today approved an additional $40 million for the Global Wildlife Program (GWP) expanding its support in the fight against…
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#WithRefugees – World Refugee Day – UNHCR
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UNHCR United Kingdomunhcr.org – 1. Baw Meh Baw Meh dreams of a safer future for her grandchildren. Baw Meh’s story 2. Mojtaba Mojtaba’s story 3. Carmen Carmen hopes to inspire other women through her work. Carmen’s story 4. Sola…
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Closing Remarks on 2016 High-level Meeting on Ending AIDS
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UNAIDSun.org – Heads of State and Government, Honourable Ministers, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, We have come to the end of three truly engaging days of discussion and I would like to thank the Co-chairs o…
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The Latest: Hungary to close its largest migrants center
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UNHCR Central Europebusinessinsider.com – ATHENS, Greece (AP) – The Latest on Europe’s immigration crisis (all times local): Hungary says it is planning to close its largest remaining reception center for migrants and refugees. Janos Lazar…
BUSINESS
In The Future, ‘Made In China’ Could Become ‘Made In Africa’
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UNIDO Newsroomhuffingtonpost.com – There’s a pretty good chance that some of the clothes you’re wearing, the shoes on your feet and even the device you’re using to read this were made in China. Even as its economy slows, China remai…
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This startup helps Syrian refugees earn a living. All they need is a laptop.
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UN Refugee Agencypri.org – I’ve come to a cafe in Beirut to meet a young Syrian refugee named Ghaith. His name is easier to write than to say. In Arabic, “gh” makes something like an “r” sound, but from the depths of your th…
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�We Came with Nothing, We Have Nothing�: Thousands flee Fallujah as Fighting Intensifies
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World Food Programmewfp.org – BAGHDAD – The UN and partners are in a race against time to provide life-saving assistance to people fleeing escalating violence in Anbar, particularly around the battle for Fallujah. On 5 June, UN…
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UNAIDS Gala
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Alcohol Doesn’t Rape People
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Say NO – UNiTEtime.com – He was unanimously convicted of assault with the intent to commit rape, sexual penetration with a foreign object of an intoxicated person and sexual penetration with a foreign object of an unconsci…
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Global Youth Forum 2016
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UNYouthworldbank.org – With the world’s 1.8 billion young people, it is critical the global community interact more with you to address and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, the World Bank Group’s twin goals, an…
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#WithRefugees – World Refugee Day – 20 June – UNHCR
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ONU Mujeresacnur.org – 1. Baw Meh Baw Meh sueña con un futuro a salvo para sus nietos La historia de Baw Meh 2. Mojtaba Mojtaba sueña con encontrar una cura para el cáncer La historia de Mojtaba 3. Carmen Carmen espera i…
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UN News – UN announces first-ever global standard to measure food loss and waste
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UN Environmentun.org – 7 June 2016 A partnership of leading international organizations, including the United Nations, has announced the launch of a first-ever global standard to measure food loss and waste while at th…
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UN News – Justice for crimes committed in Darfur must not be sacrificed – ICC Prosecutor
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United Nationsun.org – 9 June 2016 More than a decade has passed since the situation in Darfur, Sudan, was referred to her Office, yet the victims’ quest for justice is still far from being realized and they continue t…
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Young Syrian footballer aims high in Germany
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UN Refugee Agencyunhcr.org – A wide, gappy grin spreads over Ahmad Alzaher’s youthful face. He gazes at his father, Mohammed, who is kneeling on the pitch nearby, a water bottle balanced precariously atop his head. Ahmad steps…
HEALTH
Breaking the silos: empowering adolescent girls and young women to access integrated health-care services
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UNAIDSunaids.org – NEW YORK/GENEVA, 9 June 2016—At the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS, taking place in New York, United States of America, the Organisation of African First Ladies a…
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The Art of Logistics: Going Behind the Scenes with WFP in El Salvador
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United Nationsmedium.com – Carlos Sorriano is a logistics veteran. With nearly two decades of experience, you would be hard pressed to find someone more knowledgeable about the ins-and-outs of how to get food from one place …
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6 Jun 2016 – UNESCO celebrated World Environment Day in Tehran – United Nations in Iran
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UN Environmentun.org.ir – 6 Jun 2016 – UNESCO celebrated World Environment Day in Tehran Dr. Ebtekar, Vice-President of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Head of the Department of Environment, delivers her speech on the occa…
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Ramadan pulls despair of millions of Syrians into sharp focus
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UN Refugee Agencyunhcr.org – AMMAN, June 7 (UNHCR) – For Abu Ahmad, Ramadan got off to a shaky start this year. As the 44-year-old from Homs and his family looked forward to breaking their first day of fasting with the traditi…
WORLD
Children fleeing South Sudan struggle in CAR refugee villages
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UN Refugee Agencyunhcr.org – BAMBOUTI, Central African Republic, June 9 (UNHCR) – At home in South Sudan, priests cared for Semo and Seto Abu, disabled 10-year-old twins who struggle to walk and look after themselves. But civi…
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UNHCR Sample FaceBook title
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UN Refugee Agencyunhcr.org – NAIROBI, 6 June 2016 – Today, UNHCR Staff members in Nairobi joined the rest of the world in signing the Open Letter to End Statelessness. The Open Letter is part of the media element of the Global…
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UN News – Ban commends India and United States for supporting early entry into force of Paris Agreement
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UN Environmentun.org – 8 June 2016 United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has commended a joint statement on climate change made by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and United States President Barack Obama an…
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Letters from our Founder and CEO | 2015 Annual Report
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United Nationsannualreport.bloomberg.org – When I visited Moscow for the first time last June, I found a dynamic city filled with beautiful architecture, fascinating history, and welcoming people. It turns out, though, that the most remarka…
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Two years after capture of Mosul, displaced Iraqis struggle
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UN Refugee Agencyunhcr.org – BASRA, Iraq, June 10 (UNHCR) – Iraqi mother-of-six Ahlam Tariq Ali once enjoyed what she calls a “luxurious life” in Iraq’s second city of Mosul. But that ended when militants stormed the city two …
WORLD
International Day of UN Peacekeepers – UN Stamps
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UNMASunstamps.org – The International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers was established by the General Assembly in 2002, in tribute to all men and women serving in peacekeeping operations for their high level of prof…
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U.N. says Syria blocking food aid; seeks airlift approval
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UN Refugee Agencyuk.reuters.com – GENEVA/UNITED NATIONS The United Nations is still waiting for Syrian government agreement for an aid convoy to enter the besieged town of Daraya and has requested approval to airlift food into four…
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Full Transcript of Secretary-General’s Press Encounter
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UN Environmentun.org – Good morning. It is a great pleasure to see you all once again. Before I take your questions, I would like to highlight three challenges that affect the wide sweep of our work today. First, we n…
HEALTH
20 Million People Living With HIV Are Being Left Behind
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UN Developmenthuffingtonpost.com – Marking World AIDS Day 2014, Zimbabwe, Photo: UNDP / Nigel Coulson This week, world leaders gather in New York for the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS to chart the…
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Coverage: UN Women Executive Director visits Canada
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UN Womenunwomen.org – From 6-8 June, UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka is undertaking her first official mission to Canada, visiting three cities in as many days—Ottawa, Toronto and Waterloo. Read the a…
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Syrian women rise above differences and forge a statement of unity
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UN Womenunwomen.org – In an effort to build consensus to end the Syrian crisis, a diverse group of over 130 Syrian women political and civil society activists met in Beirut, Lebanon from 20-22 May and forged a statement…
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Asia-Pacific Region Aims at Hunger-Free Goal by 2030
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UN Womenipsnews.net – UNITED NATIONS, Jun 9 2016 (IPS) – The Asia Pacific region – home to two of the world’s most populous countries – faces major food security challenges. According to the Asian Development Bank (ADB)…
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Tennis plays host to Women’s Economic Empowerment – News – Tennis Australia
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UN Womentennis.com.au – Melbourne VIC, Australia, 8 June 2016 | tennis.com.au Tennis Australia CEO Craig Tiley and Jetstar Group CEO Jayne Hrdlicka have co-chaired an historic consultation, bringing together delegates fro…
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Gloria Steinem’s new show links global instability to violence against women: “For the first time there are fewer females on earth than males”
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UN Womensalon.com – Most of us don’t think of Canada as an unstable or violent place, but one of your episodes looks at the massive problem of their women, especially First Nations women, disappearing or getting murde…
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Hundreds show up for funeral of veteran with no known living relatives | Fox News
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnerfoxnews.com – Four people were expected to attend the funeral Tuesday of a 91-year-old U.S. Navy veteran who died last month with no known living relatives. But 20 minutes before the ceremony at Quantico Nationa…
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Freed Gaddafi loyalists found dead in Libya’s Tripoli – News from Al Jazeera
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Sarah Leah Whitsonaljazeera.com – The bodies of at least 12 loyalists to the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi have been found in the country’s capital, Tripoli, just days after they were released from prison. The victims were p…
WORLD
Dreams of My Muslim Son
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Sarah Leah Whitsonnytimes.com – LONG before I came to the United States, I was fascinated by the American electoral process. I grew up in Pakistan in the 1980s, during the brutally repressive military dictatorship of President Mo…
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Three reasons why attacking Egypt’s top auditor is bad news — Voices on Corruption
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Sarah Leah Whitsonblog.transparency.org – Putting Egypt’s top auditor on trial sends a clear message: the Egyptian government is waging a war. Not against corruption but against those who fight against it. When President Abdel Fattah Al Si…
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#WithRefugees Campaign | Tinalbarka story
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UN Womenunhcr.org – Tinalbarka, 16 year old: “I am 16 years old. I come from Mali. My family and I fled Bamako because of war. So we arrived here [in Mbera, Mauritania], where where I now live with my parents. Fortuna…
WORLD
Muslim refugees stuck in Greece miss home more than ever during Ramadan
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M R Bpri.org – On the first night of Ramadan, residents of the informal tent camp at Piraeus port in Athens line up for special meals to break their fast. As the sun sets behind the massive ferries that take trav…
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Air pollution now major contributor to stroke, global study finds
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UN Environmenttheguardian.com – Air pollution has become a major contributor to stroke for the first time, with unclean air now blamed for nearly one third of the years of healthy life lost to the condition worldwide. In an unpre…
WORLD
Sudanese refugees in Chad must adapt or starve
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Bernie Media Blasteririnnews.org – The Darfur conflict fell out of the headlines years ago, but more than 300,000 Sudanese are still living as refugees in neighbouring Chad, a country with its own problems of poverty, climate change…
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For Refugees, Private Groups Fill in Shortfalls in the World’s Response
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حسين الطوال الخالديwsj.com – As Syria’s civil war worsens and Islamic State continues to hold on to large swaths of Iraq, Europe has been shaken by the worst refugee crisis since World War II. Nearly 5 million Syrians have fle…
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Child marriage on the rise among Syrian refugees
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Elena Haskinsjordantimes.com – AMMAN — Salma, a 13-year-old Syrian refugee, was playing with friends outside her tent when her step-mother asked her to come inside and told her to prepare to get married in two days. Salma, who f…
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To really improve the lives of Syrian refugees, Turkey and the world must cooperate better
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Charlotte Williamsbrookings.edu – The Syrian crisis is now in its sixth year. Half of Syria’s population is now either an internally displaced person or a refugee. Frontline countries are now hosting close to five million refugees….
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Resettling refugees in Australia would not resume the people-smuggling trade
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Linda Sparrowtheconversation.com – In normal circumstances, deaths of asylum seekers, sexual assaults on adults and children, and widespread severe mental illness – including self-harm – attributable to the length and conditions of …
WORLD
Bilderberg 2016: US election and refugees top of agenda at secret invite-only conference (PHOTOS)
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Badcraigsnewsblacklistednews.com – “It’s one of the most secretive and powerful organizations you’ve probably never heard of,” reported Al Jazeera. The top-secret, four-day meeting launched on Thursday in the German city of Dresden…
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The Small Animal That’s Making a Big Difference for Women in the Developing World — Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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World Bankmedium.com – Chickens in America have it rough. They’re the symbol of cowards. They’re the butt of corny cross-the-road jokes. Every kind of mystery meat is supposed to taste exactly like them. But if you ask a…
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Gov. Cuomo’s BDS Blacklist Is an Affront to Free Expression
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Sarah Leah Whitsonaclu.org – New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order this week requiring state agencies and authorities to divest from any company or institution that supports the Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctio…
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Welcome to the insult election, Twitter’s biggest show ever
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnertheverge.com – Imagine this: Donald Trump, having just been sworn in as the 45th President of the United States, strolls into the Oval Office. He takes a seat at the historic Resolute desk — built from the remain…
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✿ Paul LAURENZI ✿
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MarkGeoffreyKirshnercatherinelarosepoesiaearte.blogspot.com – ‘Questa notte… come quasi ogni notte… ho bramato fino alla cecita’ il mio silenzio lo faccio spesso quando…. quando credo di esser sola tra me e sempre me anima e cuore…’ ~ Catherine La Ros…
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In Colombia, training ushers more women into politics
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UN Womenunwomen.org – “I managed to overcome the fear of running for election. I stood as a candidate and I won,” explains Lucía del Socorro Basante, a 60-year-old lawyer and the only woman on the Municipal Council in P…
ENVIRONMENT
Ocho países de América Latina y el Caribe suscribieron el primer tratado mundial contra la pesca ilegal
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FAO Newsroomfao.org – 6 de junio de 2016, Santiago de Chile– Ocho países de América Latina y el Caribe se sumaron a un acuerdo internacional pionero en su género que pretende acabar con la pesca ilegal, el cual entró en…
ENVIRONMENT
WCS Gala 2016 Honors Sir David Attenborough and Walt Disney Company > WCS Newsroom
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United Nationsnewsroom.wcs.org – Max Pulsinelli, 571-218-7601; mpulsinelli@wcs.org WCS: We Stand for Wildlife (1:37) David Attenborough Award Acceptance (3:14) WCS GALA 2016 CELEBRATES “WE STAND FOR WILDLIFESM” MISSION SIR DAVID …
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UN News – Haiti: UN supports Government in potable water campaign reaching 30,000 residents
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United Nationsun.org – 10 June 2016 Some 30,000 residents of three localities in Haiti now have access to potable water, thanks to a sanitation campaign launched by the Government and supported by the United Nations fo…
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CSA 101: your new online guide to climate-smart agriculture
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FAO Newsroomccafs.cgiar.org – The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and partners developed a website presenting the climate-smart agriculture (CSA) approach to food security and sus…
LEISURE
The Government of Nigeria and UNHCR organize a regional Protection Dialogue on the Lake Chad Basin – kora
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UN Refugee Agencykora.unhcr.org – A Protection Dialogue on the Lake Chad Basin – the first of its kind in the region – will be hosted in Abuja by the Government of Nigeria, with the technical support of UNHCR, from 6 to 8 June, 201…
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Go Circular :: Our Planet
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UN Environmentweb.unep.org – The circular economy is a tangible set of solutions – and our best chance of reaching sustainable patterns of production and consumption. The implications are enormous, not just for the way we do b…
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