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Is Dubai’s party over? Record Covid cases, countries raising barriers spark fears of a new lockdown CNBC 1/26/2021 Natasha Turak Over the weekend, the UAE's health ministry published a post on its Instagram story headed with the words "URGENT HIRING", offering temporary contracts for ICU nurses in Dubai and other emirates. Daily Covid-19 cases have roughly tripled in the span of a month since Dec. 30. Dubai relies heavily on tourism and has seen some economic recovery since reopening for business and tourism last summer. But for many living in Dubai, tighter restrictions ...

Dubai relies heavily on tourism and has resisted another lockdown since reopening for business and tourism last summer.

As Biden Axes KXL Pipeline, Water Protectors Urge Him to Reject DAPL and Line 3 An Indigenous Water Protector and an Aitkin County sheriff chat in front of a construction site for Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline near Palisade, Minnesota, on January 9, 2021. Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images By As President Joe Biden moved to kill a key permit for the Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office Wednesday, Indigenous Water Protectors in Minnesota want to see Biden’s campaign promise extended to another notorious tar sands pipeline project: Enbridge’s Line 3 replacement and expans...

The incoming president will cancel Keystone XL. But other pipelines are proposed.

On January 2, 2021, during the first weekend of the New Year, dozens of water protectors gathered to demonstrate and pray along Great River Road near Palisade, Minnesota. They joined in song, protesting a controversial tar sands oil pipeline called Line 3, which is currently being constructed through northern Minnesota and traditional Anishinaabe lands. Ojibwe tribes have