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A Bódvába borult Tornánál egy Volkswagen

Bumm.sk (Szlovákia/Felvidék) - Wed, 02/24/2021 - 14:40
Szerdán reggel a patakba borult VW Golf gépkocsijával egy férfi (40) a Kassa-vidéki járásban Torna (Turňa nad Bodvou) és Bódvavendégi (Hosťovce) között, amikor megcsúszott az autója és lehajtott vele az útról. A káresemény során nem történt személyi sérülés. A rendőrségi vizsgálat szerint a sofőr józan volt.

70-Jähriger war auf unwegsamem Gelände unterwegs: Freiburger Polizei rettet Wanderer (70) aus misslicher Lage

Blick.ch - Wed, 02/24/2021 - 14:38
Die Freiburger Polizei hat einen verirrten Wanderer aus einer misslichen Lage befreit. Der 70-Jährige war am Dienstagnachmittag in einem steilen Abhang oberhalb der Saane in Marly FR stecken geblieben.
Categories: Swiss News

Fux über Sex: «Wird sie sich je öffnen?»

Blick.ch - Wed, 02/24/2021 - 14:32
Categories: Swiss News

In EU nicht zugelassen: Ungarn beginnt Impfungen mit chinesischem Mittel

Blick.ch - Wed, 02/24/2021 - 14:32
Im Kampf gegen die Corona-Pandemie hat Ungarn am Mittwoch als bisher einziges EU-Land mit der Verabreichung des chinesischen Impfstoffs von Sinopharm begonnen.
Categories: Swiss News

Thomas Spitzer zu seiner Ehefrau Hazel Brugger: «Du bist die erste Frau, die ich nicht betrogen habe»

Blick.ch - Wed, 02/24/2021 - 14:32
In ihrem Podcast «Nur Verheiratet» reden Hazel Brugger und Thomas Spitzer ganz offen über ihre Beziehung. Auch beim Thema Fremdgehen nehmen sie kein Blatt vor den Mund.
Categories: Swiss News

Élections législatives : Makri livre la position du MSP

Algérie 360 - Wed, 02/24/2021 - 14:32

Le Président du Mouvement de la société pour la paix (MSP), Abderrezak Makri, a livré la position de son parti concernant les engagements du Président Tebboune pour la tenue d’élections législatives.  Selon les informations rapportées par nos confrères du journal francophone Le Soir d’Algérie, le Président du Mouvement de la société pour la paix (MSP), […]

L’article Élections législatives : Makri livre la position du MSP est apparu en premier sur .

Categories: Afrique

Car of the Year 2021: Das sind die sieben Kandidaten: Mehr Platz im Elektro-500er

Blick.ch - Wed, 02/24/2021 - 14:31
Am 1. März wird in Genf der Titel des europäischen «Car of the Year 2021» verliehen. BLICK stellt die sieben Kandidaten in alphabetischer Reihenfolge vor. Als dritter Finalist tritt Fiats 500e an.
Categories: Swiss News

Russia’s Lavrov slams West for pandemic ‘selfishness’

Euractiv.com - Wed, 02/24/2021 - 14:27
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov lambasted the West for failing to unite globally in the fight against the pandemic and its economic fallout, in an address to the UN Human Rights Council on Wednesday (24 February).
Categories: European Union

Dieses Detail schmerzt ihn am meisten: Die Suarez-Abrechnung mit dem FC Barcelona

Blick.ch - Wed, 02/24/2021 - 14:24
Laut der Klubführung des FC Barcelona war Luis Suarez (34) zu alt, um weiter Stammspieler für die Blaugrana zu sein. Der Uruguayer antwortet darauf mit Toren und scharfen Worten.
Categories: Swiss News

COVID-Strukturpolitik: Die Risiken der Flexibilität

Euractiv.de - Wed, 02/24/2021 - 14:21
Als die Coronakrise losbrach, brauchten Europas Regionen rasch Hilfe. Übriggebliebene Regionalgelder konnten schnell und unbürokratisch ausgegeben werden. Nun ist klar: Dabei wurden in Deutschland grüne Investments zurückgefahren.
Categories: Europäische Union

Global gas firms target industrial ‘clusters’ for first hydrogen clients

Euractiv.com - Wed, 02/24/2021 - 14:13
Gas companies in Europe and America are looking at using the existing gas network to serve industrial “clusters” of hydrogen users in sectors like chemicals, cement and steelmaking, adopting a “phased approach” endorsed by the European Commission.
Categories: European Union

EU-UK to debate extensions for Irish customs waiver

Euractiv.com - Wed, 02/24/2021 - 14:10
EU and UK officials will discuss on Wednesday (24 February) the possibility of extending the ‘grace periods’ that exempt goods crossing the Irish Sea border from new customs checks introduced by the new trade arrangement.
Categories: European Union

Keiner ist gut genug!: Immer noch kein neuer Bundesanwalt in Sicht

Blick.ch - Wed, 02/24/2021 - 14:10
Wer soll Ex-Bundesanwalt Michael Lauber beerben? Der Gerichtskommission des Parlaments ist keiner der Kandidatinnen und Kandidaten gut genug. Darum schreibt sie die Stelle jetzt zum dritten Mal aus.
Categories: Swiss News

Télécoms: Bruxelles veut prolonger de 10 ans la suppression du « roaming » dans l’UE

Euractiv.fr - Wed, 02/24/2021 - 14:10
La Commission européenne a proposé mercredi de prolonger de 10 ans la suppression des frais d'itinérance (ou "roaming") entre les pays de l'UE, une mesure effective depuis juin 2017 mais qui doit normalement prendre fin en 2022.
Categories: Union européenne

Nach einem Monat im Amt: So oft hat auch Biden schon geflunkert

Blick.ch - Wed, 02/24/2021 - 14:07
Seit einem Monat ist der US-Präsident im Amt. CNN hat nun aktuelle Behauptungen von Biden unter die Lupe genommen – und mehrere falsche Aussagen gefunden.
Categories: Swiss News

Météo ensoleillée: Comme un goût de printemps sur la Suisse romande

24heures.ch - Wed, 02/24/2021 - 14:06
Les beaux jours sont déjà là et cela devrait durer. Le point avec un météorologue.
Categories: Swiss News

Médéa : une fausse conseillère à la présidence derrière les barreaux

Algérie 360 - Wed, 02/24/2021 - 14:06

Une femme âgée d’une quarantaine d’années, qui répond aux initiales K.S, a été arrêtée hier mardi, 23 février 2021, par les éléments de la gendarmerie nationale. La femme qui se faisait passer pour une conseillère à la présidence de la république, est poursuivie pour escroquerie, faux et usage de faux, et pour d’autres chefs d’accusation. […]

L’article Médéa : une fausse conseillère à la présidence derrière les barreaux est apparu en premier sur .

Categories: Afrique

Ukraine starts its COVID-19 vaccination campaign with India-made jab

Euractiv.com - Wed, 02/24/2021 - 14:05
Ukraine started its COVID-19 vaccination campaign on Wednesday (24 February), with doctors the first to be inoculated.
Categories: European Union

The Global Insecurity of Climate Change

Africa - INTER PRESS SERVICE - Wed, 02/24/2021 - 14:05

Sudanese youth live with continuous insecurity due to climate change vulnerability, including droughts, desertification, land degradation and food insecurity. Courtesy: Albert Gonzalez Farran/ UNAMID/ CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

By Nalisha Adams
BONN, Germany, Feb 24 2021 (IPS)

For Sudanese youth, climate change is synonymous with insecurity.

“We are living in a continuous insecurity due to many factors that puts Sudan on top of the list when it comes to climate vulnerability,” said Nisreen Elsaim, Sudanese climate activist and chair of United Nations Secretary General’s Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change.

She said this was directly linked to insecurity within Sudan. She noted that even a Security Council resolution from 2018 which acknowledged “the adverse effects of climate change, ecological changes and natural disasters, among other factors,”, including droughts, desertification, land degradation and food insecurity influenced the situation in Dafur, Sudan.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) ranks Sudan as one of the world’s most vulnerable countries when it comes to climate change. Increased frequency of droughts and high rainfall variability over decades has stressed Sudan’s rainfed agriculture and pastoralist livelihoods, which are the dominant means of living in rural areas like north Dafur.

“In a situation of resources degradation, hunger, poverty and uncontrolled climate migration will [mean] conflict is an inevitable result,” Elsaim said, adding that climate-related emergencies resulted in major disruptions to healthcare and livelihoods and that climate-related migration increased the risk of gender-based violence.

She also pointed out that women, youth and children where the groups most adversely affected by climate insecurity.

In January, inter-communal violence in Darfur displaced over 180,000 people — 60 percent of whom are under the age of 18. “Displacement has declined in recent years in Sudan, but many of its triggers remain unaddressed. Ethnic disputes between herders and farmers over scarce resources overlap with disasters such as flooding and political instability,” the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre said in a statement. There are currently 2.1 million internally displaced persons in Sudan.

Elsaim was speaking yesterday, Feb. 23, during a high-level United Nations Security Council debate focusing on international peace and security and climate change, led by United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The UK currently holds the Security Council presidency and will also be host to the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26), which will take place in November in Glasgow, Scotland.

“Land and resources in Africa and in many other parts of the world, because of climate change, can no longer maintain young people,” Elsaim cautioned.

She said in the youth’s search for decent lives, jobs and proper access to services, the new challenge of COVID-19 meant the only solution for many was in country, cross-border or international migration.

The issue is a global one.

Natural historian Sir David Attenborough addressed the council in a video message also giving a stark warning that the “stability of the entire world” could be altered by climate threats.

“Today there are threats to security of a new and unprecedented kind,” Attenborough said.

“They are rising global temperatures, the despoiling of the ocean — that vast universal larder which people everywhere depend for their food. Change in the pattern of weather worldwide that pay no regard to national boundaries but that can turn forests into deserts, drown great cities and lead to the extermination of huge numbers of the other creatures with which we share this planet.”

He cautioned that no matter what the world did now, some of these threats could become a reality, destroying cities and societies.

“If we continue on our current path, we will face the collapse of everything that gives us our security: food production, access to fresh water, habitable ambient temperature, and ocean food chains,” Attenborough cautioned.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said the last decade was the hottest in human history and that wildfires, cyclones and floods were the new normal which also affected political, economic and social stability.

“Climate disruption is a crisis amplifier and multiplier,” Guterres told the Security Council. “While climate change dries up rivers, reduces harvests, destroys critical infrastructure and displaces communities, it [also] exacerbates the risks of instability and conflict.”

He referred to a study by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute which noted that 8 of the 10 countries hosting the largest multilateral peace operations in 2018 where in areas highly exposed to climate change.

“The impacts of these crises are greatest where fragility and conflicts have weakened coping mechanisms,” Guterres said.

The UN has already stated that 2021 will a be critical, not only for curbing the rapidly spreading COVID-19 pandemic, but also for meeting the climate challenge. Guterres has already stated that he plans to focus this year on building a global coalition for carbon neutrality by 2050.

Alongside the Security Council debate, the Fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly wrapped up yesterday. The assembly, world’s top environmental decision-making body attended by government leaders, businesses, civil society and environmental activists, met virtually on Feb. 22 to 23 under the theme “Strengthening Actions for Nature to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals”.

The assembly concluded with member states releasing a statement acknowledging “the urgency to continue our efforts to protect our planet also in this time of crisis”, and calling for multilateral cooperation as they “remain convinced that collective action is essential to successfully address global challenges”.

Joyce Msuya, the Deputy Executive Director for the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), noted that 87 ministers and high-level representatives participated during the two days. She shared some of the points of the dialogue noting that the health of nature and human health were inextricably linked. 

“For our own well-being we must make our peace with nature in a way that demonstrates solidarity,” Msuya said, making reference to a recent UNEP report

The report serves a blueprint on how to tackle the triple emergencies of climate, biodiversity loss and pollution and provides detailed solutions by drawing on global assessments.

Msuya added that the nature crisis was linked with the climate and pollution crisis and that the world now had the chance to put in place a green recovery “that will transform our relations with nature and heal our planet”.

She said the green recovery should put the world on a path to a low-carbon, resilient, post-pandemic world.

Meanwhile, Elsaim said that as a young person, she was “sure that young people are the solution”. She urged world leaders to engage with the youth and listen to them.

“Stop conflict by stopping climate change. Give us security and secure the future,” she said in conclusion.

 


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Categories: Africa

Nächster Knall beim STV: Jetzt ist auch die Nachwuchschefin weg

Blick.ch - Wed, 02/24/2021 - 14:04
Wieder ein Wechsel beim Schweizerischen Turnverband. RG-Nachwuchschefin Maria Balado geht aus eigenem Antrieb.
Categories: Swiss News

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