EU climate targets won’t be met unless greenhouse gas emissions linked to beef and dairy consumption are dramatically reduced, a Swedish study published on Monday said.
Tears of joy as refugee family reunited with cat in Norway
The Al Alaf family lost their cat Kunkush while fleeing from the Islamic State in Iraq. Thanks to a Facebook campaign, they have now been reunited with their feline friend in Norway.
Soldiers of Odin expand Norway patrols
Volunteer street patrols calling themselves the Soldiers of Odin and claiming to protect locals from asylum seekers walked the streets of several Norwegian towns this weekend, as the group founded in Finland branches out across northern Europe.
French told to avoid 185 cosmetic products
A French consumers group has told the public to steer clear of 185 cosmetic products due to their toxic contents, with big name brands like L’Oréal among those on the blacklist.
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Alfred W. McCoy: How a Pink Flower Defeated the World’s Sole Superpower – Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics
Long and good on analysis – very, very short on plausible solutions.
Even in troubled Afghanistan, however, there are alternatives whose sum could potentially slice through this Gordian knot of a policy problem. As a first and fundamental step, maybe it’s time to stop talking about the next sets of boots on the ground and for President Obama to complete his planned troop withdrawal. Next, investing even a small portion of all that misspent military funding in rural Afghanistan could produce economic alternatives for the millions of farmers who depend upon the opium crop for employment. Such money could help rebuild that land’s ruined orchards, ravaged flocks, wasted seed stocks, and wrecked snowmelt irrigation systems that, before these decades of war, sustained a diverse agriculture. If the international community can continue to nudge the country’s dependence on illicit opium down from the current 13% of GDP through such sustained rural development, then perhaps Afghanistan will cease to be the planet’s leading narco-state and just maybe that annual cycle can at long last be broken.
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Egyptian Aak 2016 – Week 7 ( Feb 15-21)
“That a private citizen can file moral charges against an author for fictional work in #Egypt makes culture hostage to the stupidest citizen”
Top Headlines
- Egypt author jailed for violating ‘public modesty.’ Saturday
- Egyptian-Arab military exercises commence in Saudi Arabia. Sunday
- Hundreds protest in Cairo over police shooting. Friday
- Egypt’s El Nadeem Centre for rehabilitation of torture victims challenges possible shutdown. Thursday
Main Headlines
Monday
- Egypt says Italian student was not arrested before his death
- Egypt is fully cooperating with the Italian team involved in investigating the killing of Italian student
- Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood cuts ties to Egypt’s parent group
- Cairo University bans face veil for all women involved in treating patients
- Salafi preacher calls on Cairo University students to disobey veil ban
- Egypt’s jobless rate eases to 12.7percent in Q4/2015
Tuesday
- Egyptian diplomat and former UN Secretary General Boutrous-Ghali passes away at 93
- Egyptian court clears policeman over the 2011’s torture, killing case
- Egypt orders arrest of Facebook administrator after unfaithful wives comments
- Egypt’s central bank currently has no intention…
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