Amy Haggstromflipped into EconomicsBiodiversity Biodiversity: Throwing money at schemes ineffective - charity bbc.co.uk - By Victoria GillRich countries "throwing money" at schemes designed to enhance biodiversity is ineffective, a report by charity Third World Network says. The report calls for "a profound re-organisation of the global...
Amy Haggstromflipped into History in the NewsSierra Leone Sengbe Pieh: The slave who fought his way back home verified_publisherDW English - Murtala Kamara Sengbe Pieh, a farmer and trader from Sierra Leone was taken into slavery in 1839. During the voyage to the so-called New World, he led a mutiny …
Amy Haggstromflipped into Arab IsraeliIsraeli Palestinian Conflict Israel-Palestinians: Old grievances fuel new fighting bbc.co.uk - By Jeremy BowenThe latest round of violence between Israelis and Palestinians is happening because the long and unresolved conflict between the two sides has once again been left to fester. It is an open wound in the...
Amy Haggstromflipped into Arab IsraeliJerusalem Day Rockets target Tel Aviv after Gaza tower destroyed bbc.co.uk - BBC NewsPalestinian militants say they fired 130 missiles at the Israeli city of Tel Aviv after an Israeli air strike felled a tower block in the Gaza Strip. The 13-storey building was attacked an hour and a after...
Amy Haggstromflipped into Global PoliticsYoweri Museveni Uganda: Museveni tightens grip on power verified_publisherDW English - Cristina Krippahl Yoweri Museveni’s less than stellar democratic and human rights record has caused increasing anger abroad. But allies in the West seem loath to upset …
Amy Haggstromflipped into Covid-19Pandemics The people who want to keep masking: ‘It’s like an invisibility cloak’ verified_publisherGuardian US - Julia Carrie Wong in San FranciscoShe’s been fully vaccinated for three weeks, but Francesca, a 46-year-old professor, does not plan to abandon the face mask that she’s come to view as a kind of “invisibility cloak” just yet. “Maybe it’s...
