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Despite official figures suggesting that Australia's greenhouse gas emissions are declining, after factors beyond the federal government's influence are considered, such as deforestation and emissions from soil and forestry, Australia's exposure to the climate crisis has risen over the last 15 years.
French Row Over Mosque Isn't Simply About State Financing â It's More Than That It is most likely a mix of Islamophobia and French secularism among other factors. The Grand Mosque of Strasbourg in France. Photo: Claude Truong-Ngoc/Wikipedia World2 hours ago Among the anti-Muslim slogans discovered sprayed across an Islamic community centre in western France on the morning of April 11, 2021, was a reference to a mosque that hasnât even finished being built yet. âEELV = Traitorsâ read the graffitied message, alongside others including âNo to Islamizationâ and refer...
Denmark to order 100 electric trains from Alstom in $3.2 billion deal Reuters 1 hour ago © Reuters/Vincent Kessler FILE PHOTO: The logo of Alstom is seen at the company's TGV high-speed train factory in Belfort COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark's state-owned railway operator DSB said on Monday it will buy 100 new electric trains from France's Alstom in a deal worth 20 billion Danish crowns ($3.2 billion). The new trains are built around Alstom's Coradia Stream platform already in use in Italy and will replace Denmark's diesel-powered trains. "With the order of new electric trains we can l...
A photo of the judges of the European Court of Human Rights sitting in the courtroom during a hearing. | Reuters/Vincent Kessler A psychotherapist is taking a university in the United Kingdom to the European Court of Human Rights for not approving him to study cases of people who have surgery to reverse gender reassignment because it is not a “politically correct” topic. Bath Spa University in England refused permission to 61-year-old James Caspian, a registered U.K. psychotherapist with 10 years of experience in therapy for transgender individuals, to do the study as part of a master’s...
Despite a collapsing Lebanese economy and considerable political turmoil, Hezbollah continues to threaten Israel. These threats must be taken seriously,... In 1970, the demise of the Kingdom seemed not just inevitable but imminent. Not only was the PFLP busy hijacking planes and landing them in Jordanian airports, but there were more armed Palestinians than Jordanian military personnel roaming the streets of Amman. Yet by the summer of 1971, the Palestinian factions had been totally defeated by the Jordanian army, which remained loyal to the king. So resounding was the defeat of “the forces...