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How—and Why—Yemen’s Houthi Rebels Are Poised to Seriously Disrupt the Global Economy

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Loaded containers stacked on top of a cargo ship sailing in a canal, Suez Canal, Red sea, Egypt
Loaded containers stacked on top of a cargo ship sailing in the Suez Canal.Camille Delbos—Art In All of Us/Corbis/Getty Images

BY GREGORY BREW

DECEMBER 19, 2023 12:00 AM EST

Gregory Brew is a historian of international energy, U.S. foreign policy, the Cold War, U.S.-Iranian relations, and modern Iran. He is currently an Analyst at Eurasia Group.

After two months, the crisis in the Middle East is poised to seriously disrupt the global economy as well as regional stability—thanks to the Houthis, a rebel Shi’a group in Yemen, and their successful effort to disrupt shipping through the Red Sea.

While attacks by the Houthis on commercial shipping began on November 19, they escalated last week, with the Yemeni rebels firing anti-ship ballistic missiles at several passing ships and hitting one (the first time such a weapon has ever been used successfully). As none of the ships were bound for Israel or owned by Israeli companies, the attacks signaled the Houthis were stepping up their efforts to pressure local commerce as a way to force Israel to suspend its campaign in Gaza.

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Shipping companies got the message. Five of the largest shipping firms announced they would redirect their container ships away from the Bab al Mandab strait, the strategic waterway through which ships must pass on their way to the Suez Canal and which handles over 10% of global commerce.

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“Gaza: Children after children after children who are lying in the hospital corridors, with horrific injuries”

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[2 bài] Thiếu vắc xin Tiêm chủng mở rộng: Có thể phá huỷ thành tựu phòng, chống dịch của ngành y tế -Thế bế tắc của vắc xin nội địa

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Thiếu vắc xin Tiêm chủng mở rộng: Có thể phá huỷ thành tựu phòng, chống dịch của ngành y tế

Ngọc Thuý – Thứ Bảy 30/09/2023 12:16 (GMT+7)

VietTimes – Sau gần 20 năm vắng bóng, căn bệnh bạch hầu đã xuất hiện trở lại tại Hà Giang và Điện Biên với hàng chục người mắc bệnh, trong đó có 3 ca tử vong. Điều này một lần nữa cho thấy tính nghiêm trọng của việc thiếu vắc xin.

Tiêm phòng vắc xin đầy đủ, đúng lịch sẽ giúp trẻ tránh được bệnh và góp phần giảm tải cho các bệnh viện

3 ca tử vong do bạch hầu tại tỉnh Điện Biên và Hà Giang đều có điểm chung là chưa tiêm phòng vắc xin ngừa bệnh bạch hầu hoặc đã từng tiêm nhưng chưa đủ liều, dẫn đến khi mắc bệnh, bệnh nhân chuyển nặng nhanh và tử vong sau vài ngày phát bệnh. Dịch bạch hầu là một minh chứng thực tiễn cho thấy vấn đề vắc xin cấp thiết ra sao, khi nó liên quan đến tính mạng của người dân.

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Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war

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CPJ.org December 21, 2023 4:07 PM EST

The Israel-Gaza war has taken a severe toll on journalists since Hamas launched its unprecedented attack against Israel on October 7 and Israel declared war on the militant Palestinian group, launching strikes on the blockaded Gaza Strip.

CPJ is investigating all reports of journalists and media workers killed, injured, or missing in the war, which has led to the deadliest period for journalists since CPJ began gathering data in 1992.

As of December 21, 2023, CPJ’s preliminary investigations showed at least 68 journalists and media workers were among the more than 20,000 killed since the war began on October 7—with more than 19,000 Palestinian deaths in Gaza and the West Bank and 1,200 deaths in Israel.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) told Reuters and Agence France Press news agencies that it could not guarantee the safety of their journalists operating in the Gaza Strip, after they had sought assurances that their journalists would not be targeted by Israeli strikes, Reuters reported on October 27.

Journalists in Gaza face particularly high risks as they try to cover the conflict during the Israeli ground assault, including devastating Israeli airstrikes, disrupted communications, supply shortages and extensive power outages.

As of December 21:

CPJ is also investigating numerous unconfirmed reports of other journalists being killed, missing, detained, hurt, or threatened, and of damage to media offices and journalists’ homes.

Australian City Uses Drainage Nets to Stop Waste from Polluting Waterways

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City of Kwinana

Pollution in our waterways is not only dangerous and unsanitary for humans but it also affects wildlife. That’s why it is so exciting to see an initiative aimed at preventing such waste.

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The Australian city of Kwinana has designed a simple and cost-effective solution to deal with the discharge of waste from drainage systems. The town has put nets on the outlet of drainage pipes.

Australian City Uses Drainage Nets to Stop Waste from Polluting Waterways
Source: City of Kwinana

These nets stop waste and pollutants from leaving the sewers, preventing garbage transported by rain waters from contaminating the town’s local water reserve. It is a simple filtering system and it works like a charm.

Australian City Uses Drainage Nets to Stop Waste from Polluting Waterways
Source: City of Kwinana
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In memoriam: Saleemul Huq (1952-2023) – “For three decades, Huq was arguably the foremost champion of poorest countries in UN climate negotiations”

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This short film pays tribute to professor Saleemul Huq, an environmental and climate change giant who died on 28 October 2023.

Professor Saleemul Huq OBE (1952-2023)

Following the passing of Professor Saleemul Huq, senior fellow of IIED. This book of remembrance is open to all who wish to share their memories of Saleem.

Article, 29 October 2023

Head and shoulders photo of Saleemul Huq.

Professor Saleemul Huq was an environmental and climate change giant and senior fellow and dear friend of IIED and many IIED colleagues past and present.

Director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) and a senior associate of IIED, he was awarded an OBE by the Queen in the 2022 New Year’s Honours List for his services to combating international climate change.

The honour was awarded in recognition of his work to build climate expertise in Bangladesh, the UK and across the world. 

Saleem was an expert on the links between climate change and sustainable development, particularly from the perspective of vulnerable developing countries. A constant voice for climate action and justice for the global South, he was the lead author of chapters in the third, fourth and fifth assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Huq’s work with the IPCC spanned 1997 to 2014 and he contributed to reports that led to the panel being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.

A professor at the Independent University, Bangladesh, and an advisor to the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group of the UNFCCC, Huq published hundreds of scientific as well as popular articles and was named by Nature in 2022 as one of its top 10 scientists. 

He set up the climate change research group at IIED in 2000 and was its initial director – continuing as a senior fellow until 2021 – and worked across the institute to ensure climate was at the heart of all that IIED did. 

IIED executive director Tom Mitchell said: “I would like to offer my deepest sympathy and condolences to Saleem’s family and loved ones on behalf of IIED. There was no one quite like Saleem and I will remember his unique combination of warmth, generosity of spirit, academic prowess and enormous standing in climate science. 

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Siêu thị và chợ: “Cuộc chiến” thấy trước đoạn kết?

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Tiasang – 29-11-2023 – THANH NHÀN

“Cuộc cách mạng siêu thị” (supermarket revolution) ở Việt Nam rút cục có dẫn đến sự lụi tàn của chợ truyền thống trong lòng đô thị, nơi chúng đã tồn tại hàng thế kỷ? Và nếu điều này thực sự xảy ra thì hệ quả sẽ là gì?

Chợ Cửa Nam thời Pháp thuộc.

Trong ký ức mà thời gian đang phủ dần các dải mờ, bà Cao Thu Hà, một người nay tuổi ngoài 90 đã sống ở đường Cột Cờ (Hà Nội) trước năm 1945 (mang tên đường Điện Biên Phủ kể từ năm 1964), còn nhớ bác bếp của gia đình hay xách làn đi chợ Cửa Nam cách nhà không xa, “một chợ lớn, sầm uất và nhộn nhịp với đủ loại rau trái, quà bánh theo mùa, đặc biệt có giò lụa, chả quế thơm phức và bánh giò nóng hổi rất ngon”. 

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Đằng sau việc Sudan ra lệnh trục xuất 15 nhà ngoại giao UAE

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ANTG – Thứ Tư, 20/12/2023, 14:38

Theo SUNA – hãng thông tấn chính thức của Sudan, Bộ Ngoại giao Sudan đã tuyên bố 15 nhân viên của đại sứ quán Các Tiểu vương quốc Arab Thống nhất (UAE) là những người không được chào đón và ra lệnh cho họ rời khỏi đất nước này.

Các nhà ngoại giao UAE có 48 giờ để rời khỏi Sudan, tuyên bố này được phát ra vài tuần sau khi tướng cấp cao của Sudan cáo buộc UAE hỗ trợ đối thủ RSF. Tháng trước, Yasser al-Atta, tướng cấp cao và cấp chỉ huy thứ hai của tổng tư lệnh quân đội Sudan Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, đã cáo buộc UAE gửi hàng tiếp tế cho lực lượng hỗ trợ nhanh bán quân sự (RSF). Atta tuyên bố UAE đã gửi hàng tiếp tế qua các sân bay ở Uganda, Chad và Cộng hòa Trung Phi.

UAE đáp lại Sudan bằng cách tuyên bố rằng họ đã “liên tục kêu gọi giảm leo thang, ngừng bắn và bắt đầu đối thoại ngoại giao”. Trong khi đó, vào tháng 8, UAE đã bác bỏ một báo cáo của Wall Street Journal cho rằng vũ khí được tìm thấy trong các chuyến hàng viện trợ của họ tới Sudan và nói rằng nước này “không đứng về bên nào trong cuộc xung đột hiện tại”.

Xe bọc thép bị tiêu diệt bên những thi thể được che phủ trên đường phố el-Geneina, Tây Darfur, tháng 6/2023. Ảnh: AFP Tiếp tục đọc “Đằng sau việc Sudan ra lệnh trục xuất 15 nhà ngoại giao UAE” →

Solar and on-shore wind provide cheapest electricity and nuclear most expensive, CSIRO analysis shows

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Estimates show small modular nuclear reactors would provide most expensive power and will not be available until 2030

Graham Readfearn @readfearnWed 20 Dec 2023 19.55 GMT TheGuardian

Electricity generated by solar and on-shore wind is the cheapest in Australia, even after the significant expense of integrating them into the power grid is factored in, according to new analysis from the CSIRO.

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[2 articles] Brazil lawsuits allege direct relationship between meatpackers, deforesters on protected land – Cocoa grown illegally in a Nigerian rainforest heads to companies that supply major chocolate makers

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Brazil lawsuits allege direct relationship between meatpackers, deforesters on protected land

Cattle walk along an illegally deforested area in an extractive reserve near Jaci-Parana, Rondonia state, Brazil, Wednesday, July 12, 2023. Meat processing giant JBS SA and three other slaughterhouses are facing lawsuits seeking millions of dollars in environmental damages for allegedly purchasing cattle raised illegally in the area. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Cattle walk along an illegally deforested area in an extractive reserve near Jaci-Parana, Rondonia state, Brazil, Wednesday, July 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

BY FABIANO MAISONNAVE, ASSOCIATED PRESS AND RUBENS VALENTE, AGENCIA PUBLICAU pdated 6:42 AM GMT+7, December 20, 2023 AP

JACI-PARANA, Brazil (AP) — Meat processing giant JBS SA and three other slaughterhouses are facing lawsuits seeking millions of dollars in environmental damages for allegedly purchasing cattle raised illegally in a protected area in the Brazilian Amazon.

The lawsuits, filed December 5 to 12 by the western Brazilian state of Rondonia, target the exploitation of a protected area known as Jaci-Parana, once rainforest but now mostly transformed into grassland by decades of misuse by land-grabbers, loggers and cattle ranchers. Despite a law forbidding commercial cattle in the reserve, some 216,000 head now graze on pasture there, according to the state animal division.

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Joint Statement on Higher Airspace Operations (HAO)

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US DEPARTMENT OF STATE

MEDIA NOTE

OFFICE OF THE SPOKESPERSON

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The text of the following joint statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America, Canada, the European Union and its Member States (Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Croatia, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Hungary, Malta, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Finland, Sweden), Japan, and the United Kingdom expressing support for ICAO’s efforts to address the challenges and opportunities associated with higher airspace operations.

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Three major gaps in climate-adaptation finance for developing countries

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Source(s): Stockholm Environment Institute

In the new Adaptation Finance Gap Update, part of the UN Environment Programme(UNEP) Adaptation Gap Report 2023, we examine recent trends in adaptation funding.

Specifically, we focus on the flow of public adaptation funds from the governments of developed countries to developing countries, since the implementation of the Paris Agreement.

In this article, we identify three major gaps in adaptation finance and explain why these gaps have emerged even as nations commit to scaling up these funds.

Financial shortfall

Adaptation costs for developing countries are estimatedat between $215bn and $387bn annually this decade, according to the latest Adaptation Finance Gap Update report.

Spending from the public funds of developed nations, while not the only source of adaptation finance, remains a crucial source, especially for low-income countries.

As it stands, people in the least developed countries(LDCs) and small-island states are often more exposedto climate hazards and more likelyto be killed by climate-related disasters. This is despite the fact that these nations bear very little responsibilityfor causing climate change.

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