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Using ‘biochar’ to combat climate change
A new rstudy suggests that biochar – a carbon-rich material – could be an important tool to use in agriculture to help mitigate climate change.
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Women and girls continue to be killed, based on gender alone
“Women and girls continue to be killed on the basis of their sex and gender, rendered more vulnerable to femicide when being women and girls intersect with other grounds or…
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UN supports ‘monumental step’ for cancer sufferers in northwest Syria
The arrival of the first radiotherapy machine in northwest Syria is a game-changer for cancer treatment in the region, providing much-needed local care.
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Atrocity crimes still being committed in Ethiopia, UN experts warn
The International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia said it was vital independent investigators continue to review the country’s dire human rights situation.”“We are gravely concerned about the situation…
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Pineapple and our body
When Christopher Columbus returned from one of his trips to America, back in the 16th century, he brought with him a fruit completely unknown in Europe and which was named…
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Looming hunger emergency for South Sudanese families fleeing war
A hunger emergency is looming for scores of South Sudanese families fleeing the war in Sudan, the World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Tuesday. Source link
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Karabakh: Humanitarians respond to growing health needs
Concerns also remain for those unable to leave the Karabakh Region town of Khankendi – known as Stepanakert among Armenians – which the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)…
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World News in Brief: ‘Competing’ efforts to rebuild Derna, Myanmar mines threat, schools shut in Burkina Faso
Abdoulaye Bathily, who is also UN Special Representative, said that plans floated by different institutions and leaders for reconstruction, run the risk of deepening the existing rift between the internationally…
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We’re better off thanks to migrants, says new IOM chief
Speaking to reporters in Geneva on her first official day as head of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Amy Pope said that migrants were “people first” who should not…
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UN Karabakh mission told ‘sudden’ exodus means as few as 50 ethnic Armenians may remain
As few as 50 to 1,000 ethnic Armenians are reported to be left in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan after the exodus of recent days saw more than 100,000 flee,…