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Brazil: Amazon sees worst deforestation levels in 15 years​

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Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has hit its highest level in over 15 years, official data shows.
A report by Brazil's space research agency (Inpe) found that deforestation increased by 22% in a year.
Brazil was among a number of nations who promised to end and reverse deforestation by 2030 during the COP26 climate summit.
The Amazon is home to about three million species of plants and animals, and one million indigenous people.
It is a vital carbon store that slows down the pace of global warming.
According to the latest data, some 13,235 sq km (5110 sq miles) was lost during the 2020-21 period, the highest amount since 2006.

Environment Minister Joaquim Leite said the data represents a "challenge" and said: "We have to be more forceful in relation to these crimes."
He added that the data "does not exactly reflect the situation in the last few months".
 

Rising cases in US, Europe fuel another global surge​

After three months of near-consistent decline following the brutal Delta wave in the West, new cases of Covid-19 have again started rising the world over in the past

After three months of near-consistent decline following the brutal Delta wave in the West, new cases of Covid-19 have again started rising the world over in the past month or so. A look at the regions that are fuelling the latest wave of infections in the world. month or so

North America and Europe dominate numbers as Asia’s share shrinks

For the first time since the end of September, the seven-day average of daily infections across the world again soared above the half-million mark on Wednesday – this means that every day in the past week, there have been half a million new cases of Covid-19 the world over. Out of every 10 infections reported in the past week in the world, six have come from Europe (currently the biggest outbreak centre), while two have come from North America. The rising infections in both these continents are clearly fuelling the global wave again.
 

Scientists Mystified, Wary, as Africa Avoids COVID Disaster​

When the coronavirus first emerged last year, health officials feared the pandemic would sweep across Africa, killing millions and destroying the continent’s fragile health systems.


By Associated Press
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Nov. 19, 2021, at 11:55 a.m.

People are seen at a busy market in a poor township on the outskirts of the capital Harare, Monday, Nov, 15, 2021. When the coronavirus first emerged last year, health officials feared the pandemic would sweep across Africa, killing millions and destroying the continent’s fragile health systems. Although it’s still unclear what COVID-19’s ultimate toll will be, that catastrophic scenario has yet to materialize in Zimbabwe or much of Africa. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — At a busy market in a poor township outside Harare this week, Nyasha Ndou kept his mask in his pocket, as hundreds of other people, mostly unmasked, jostled to buy and sell fruit and vegetables displayed on wooden tables and plastic sheets. As in much of Zimbabwe, here the coronavirus is quickly being relegated to the past, as political rallies, concerts and home gatherings have returned.
 

Kamala Harris: First woman to get US presidential powers (briefly)​


Kamala Harris, 57, took on the duties of president of the United States for a short period on Friday
US Vice-President Kamala Harris became the first woman to - briefly - be given presidential powers while Joe Biden underwent a regular health check.
Ms Harris, 57, was in control for 85 minutes, while Mr Biden was placed under anaesthesia for a routine colonoscopy on Friday.
Mr Biden's doctor released a statement after the operation, saying he was healthy and able to execute his duties.
The medical examination came on the eve of the president's 79th birthday.
Ms Harris carried out her duties from her office in the West Wing of the White House, officials said.
She is the first woman - and the first black and South Asian American - to be elected US vice-president.
 

Austria Reimposes Full Lockdown, Plans to Make COVID Vaccines Compulsory​




By Reuters
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Nov. 19, 2021, at 4:40 a.m.

By Francois Murphy
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria will become the first country in western Europe to reimpose a full coronavirus lockdown this autumn to tackle a new wave of infections, and will require its whole population to get vaccinated as of February, the government said on Friday.
 
f Joe Biden was looking for respite from the tricky global challenges he has faced in recent months, he may not find harmony closer to home. The leaders of US, Canada and Mexico met on Thursday in Washington, with plenty differences to resolve.
It was the first such gathering since 2016. Talks were expected to focus on migration, Covid-19, and trade subsidies, among other issues.
At the White House, Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador praised the "new era" in relations with the US, and noted the respectful relationships between past US and Mexican presidents.
Speaking to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau earlier, Mr Biden said: "This is one of the easiest relationships that we have."
Our correspondents in Toronto, New York and Mexico City give their perspectives on this year's so-called Three Amigos summit.

There are many things that America and Canada agree upon - but one area of disagreement seems to be drawing the most focus.
In a White House appearance ahead of their formal talks, Prime Minister Trudeau and President Biden reiterated their close alignment on climate change and the pandemic. But it was a reporter's question about Mr Biden's proposed tax cut on electric vehicles (EVs) that exposed a major fault line in their relationship.
 

Vancouver storm: A state of emergency has been declared in British Columbia​


A state of emergency has been declared in the Canadian western province of British Columbia after a major storm cut road and rail links in the region.
The Canadian Armed Forces have been deployed to help thousands of stranded residents who have been trapped since the storm hit overnight on Sunday.
Local officials warned on Thursday that the price tag to rebuild could exceed C$1bn ($790m, £590m).
One woman was killed in a landslide, and two people are missing.
Officials expect more fatalities to be confirmed in the coming days.
One man caught up in the storm told the BBC the scenes afterwards were like "Armageddon".

What is the latest on the ground?​

Thousands of farm animals have died and many more remain trapped by the flood waters after the storm passed through one of Canada's most agriculturally intensive areas.
Some 18,000 people are yet to return to their homes after an "atmospheric river" - a long strip of moisture in the air that transports water from tropical areas towards the poles - dumped the region's monthly rainfall average in 24 hours.
 

UN Peacekeepers Face Greater Threats From Complex Conflicts​

The U.N. peacekeeping chief says the more than 66,000 United Nations peacekeepers are confronting greater threats today because conflicts have become more complex and are driven by an increasing number of factors ranging from ethnic tensions and the impact of organized crime to illegal exploitation of resources and terrorism.

The Associated Press

FILE - This June 14, 2018, file photo shows Nigeriens and third-country migrants head towards Libya from Agadez, Niger. The more than 66,000 United Nations peacekeepers are confronting greater threats today because conflicts have become more complex and are driven by an increasing number of factors ranging from ethnic tensions and the impact of organized crime to illegal exploitation of resources and terrorism, the U.N. peacekeeping chief said Friday, Nov. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
 

HMAS Sydney: DNA reveals identity of Australia's famous 'unknown sailor'​


Australia says it has identified the body of the only sailor recovered from a ship sunk during World War Two.
Thomas Welsby Clark, 20, joined the HMAS Sydney just four months before it was ambushed by a German raider in the Indian Ocean in 1941.
All 645 men on board the ship died - one of Australia's best-known wartime disasters.
Three months after the sinking, a body washed up in a life raft on Australia's Christmas Island.
Dressed in navy overalls that had been bleached white from the sun, he became known as the "unknown sailor".
He was buried first on the island, a territory 1,500km (930 miles) off Western Australia. Decades later, he was reburied on the mainland with military rites.

On Friday, after years of DNA testing, Australia revealed the unknown sailor as Mr Clark
 

NATO Chief: Alliance Watching Russian Troops Near Ukraine​

NATO's chief says the alliance is closely monitoring an unusual concentration of Russian forces on the border with Ukraine.


By Associated Press
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Nov. 19, 2021, at 11:16 a.m.

BERLIN (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Friday that the alliance is closely monitoring an unusual concentration of Russian forces on the border with Ukraine, warning that similar troops were used by Moscow in the past to intervene in neighboring countries.
Speaking at a defense seminar in Berlin, Stoltenberg said NATO had seen a significant military buildup by Russia close to the borders of Ukraine lately.

“We are now closely monitoring the developments along the borders,” he said. “This matters for NATO and we have the capacity, we have the capabilities to collect information, to monitor it closely and to understand what is going on there.”
Stoltenberg said that the alliance had made clear to Russia that “we see their significant military buildup.”
“We see an unusual concentration of forces and we know that they have used these type of forces before to actually intervene and invade other countries, Georgia and Ukraine,” he added.
 

Jimmy Hoffa: Deathbed confession sparks long-missing US union boss body hunt​


FBI agents have searched a plot of land in the US state of New Jersey after a deathbed confession renewed hope of solving union boss Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance 50 years ago.
For decades, Hoffa was one of America's most powerful labour organisers.
But in 1975 he suddenly disappeared, and his body has never been recovered.
Investigators recently received a tip that a former worker on a landfill site in Jersey City had said that his father told him he had buried Hoffa's body.
His disappearance had long been linked with the American Mafia, with whom Hoffa had a turbulent relationship.
According to the New York Times, landfill worker Frank Cappola, who died in March 2020, told a friend that his father had confessed to him that he had been ordered by a gang of unidentified men to bury Hoffa's body underground in a steel drum.

Agents bearing search warrants arrived at a former landfill site and conducted a survey on 25 and 26 October. A spokesperson for the FBI told the newspaper that data was currently being analysed.
 

Ukraine Summons Bulgarian Envoy Over President's Crimea Comments​



By Reuters
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Nov. 19, 2021, at 8:41 a.m.
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FILE PHOTO: Bulgaria's President Rumen Radev, speaks to the media before voting during parliamentary and presidential elections, in Sofia, Bulgaria, November 14, 2021. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov/File PhotoREUTERS
KYIV/SOFIA (Reuters) - Ukraine summoned the Bulgarian ambassador on Friday after Bulgarian President Rumen Radev said the Crimean Peninsula was part of Russia after being annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
In a presidential debate ahead of Bulgaria's run-off presidential vote on Sunday Radev said Western sanctions against Moscow were not delivering the expected results and that the European Union should restore dialogue with Russia, no matter how strained relations were.
 

China: Man banned from all-you-can-eat BBQ for eating too much​


A Chinese food live-streamer says he has been blacklisted from a grill buffet restaurant for eating too much.
The man, known only as Mr Kang, told Hunan TV that he was banned from the Handadi Seafood BBQ Buffet in Changsha city after a series of binges.
He ate 1.5kg of pork trotters during his first visit and 3.5kg to 4kg of prawns on another visit, he said.
Mr Kang said the restaurant is "discriminatory" against people who can eat a lot.
"I can eat a lot - is that a fault?" he said, adding that he didn't waste any of the food.
But the restaurant owner told the same reporter that Mr Kang was putting him out of pocket.

"Every time he comes here, I lose a few hundred yuan," he said.
"Even when he drinks soy milk, he can drink 20 or 30 bottles. When he eats the pork trotters, he consumes the whole tray of them. And for prawns, usually people use tongs to pick them up, he uses a tray to take them all."

He added that he is banning all live-streamers from the restaurant.
The story is trending on Chinese social media and has racked up more than 250 million views on Weibo, with a wide-range of opinions.
Some have said that the restaurant should not be an all-you-can-eat restaurant if they can't afford it, while others felt sorry for the restaurant owner.
Last year the Chinese government started cracking down on eating influencers, and such videos may be banned altogether in the country.

It came after President Xi Jinping called on people to "fight against food waste" amid rising concerns over food shortages.
 

Vietnam: Police summon noodle seller after Salt Bae parody​


Police in Vietnam have summoned a man after he parodied Turkish steak chef Nusret Gökçe, also known as Salt Bae.
Salt Bae made the headlines in Vietnam after footage showed him hand-feeding a top Vietnamese official a gold-encrusted steak in London.
The video had generated massive outrage with many saying that the dish cost more than the minister's monthly wage.
Police in the south-east Asian nation regularly summon people critical of the ruling Communist Party.
The noodle vendor, Bui Tuan Lam, posted a Facebook video of himself sprinkling spring onions on a bowl of beef noodles, in what appears to be an imitation of Mr Gökçe's style.
Mr Bui described himself as "Green Onion Bae" in a post uploaded alongside the video.

Six days later, police issued Mr Bui a summons.
Mr Bui later posted photos of himself being questioned by two uniformed policemen, saying he was issued a second summons.

However, Mr Bui confirmed to the BBC that during that meeting, the police did not mention his Salt Bae inspired video.
"I don't understand why I was summoned," he said, adding that they said it had "to be kept secret".

'The gold-encrusted steak'​

Mr Gökçe had earlier hosted Vietnam's Public Security minister General To Lam at his famously pricey London restaurant, Nusr-Et.

On 3 November, Mr Gökçe uploaded a Tiktok video of himself personally preparing steak dishes in front of the Vietnamese delegation and hand-feeding a piece of a Golden Tomahawk steak to Mr To.
While no prices are listed on the Nusr-Et website, the gold-covered steak is priced between £50 and £1,500 ($67- $2,022), according to reviews. This sum does not include drinks, side dishes or the 15% service charge.
The exorbitant price of the steak raised eyebrows in Vietnam as the minister's monthly wage is between $600 to $800 per month, before any allowances.
Mr To, along with several delegates, was in London as part of a delegation to the UK, with some members visiting United Nations COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland.
He had also laid flowers on the grave of communist leader Karl Marx the previous day.
This is not the first time a public official has been drawn public ire for dining at Mr Gökçe's exorbitantly expensive restaurants.

In 2019, Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro caused outrage after images of him and his wife eating at Nusr-Et restaurant in Istanbul surfaced even as Venezuela faced increasingly severe food shortages.
The average Vietnamese citizen earns a monthly income of around $230 in 2021, according to the country's General Statistics Office.
Vietnam, which used to be one of the world's poorest countries, has experienced significant economic growth over the past 30 years.
But much of the population still lives below the poverty line.
Additional reporting by the BBC's Vietnamese Service
 

Australia Calls for Global Action to Fight Online Misinformation​




By Reuters
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Nov. 19, 2021, at 12:14 a.m.

By Byron Kaye
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia on Friday called for governments around the world to agree on "rules of the road" to fight the spread of misinformation and state-backed disinformation online.

Foreign Minister Marise Payne said blocs like the Quad group - the United States, India, Japan and Australia - and global bodies like the United Nations were already working to strike a balance between harmful content and free expression online.
But time was running out to agree on rules of what was permissable.
"We should be starting yesterday," Payne told a panel at the Sydney Dialogue virtual event alongside Facebook Inc's global affairs boss.
 

Barbados to launch world's first virtual embassy in the metaverse​

However, the embassy set in a virtual world is unlikely to replace the old ways of diplomacy, former US diplomat tells Sky News
By Martin Kimber
Wednesday 17 November 2021 14:58, UK

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Famine-stricken Madagascar donations pour in from 'World News Tonight' viewers​

World Food Programme said more than 25,000 donors contributed.
ByEsther Castillejo
November 18, 2021, 8:22 AM
• 4 min read

Donations have poured in from thousands of "World News Tonight" viewers in the wake of our report on Southern Madagascar, a country on the verge of the world's first climate change-induced near-famine in modern history.

Unlike other countries, where extreme hunger and near-famine conditions are caused by war, conflict, or isolated weather events, southern Madagascar is facing these conditions because of a years-long drought caused by climate change.
 
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