www.cbc.ca/news/politics/details-canada-peacekeeping-mali-1.4582323
The Liberal government has confirmed it’s sending a detachment of helicopters and support troops to the troubled West African nation of Mali, as it ticks off a number of its peacekeeping commitments.
CBC News first reported the news on Friday.
business.financialpost.com/commodities/energy/too-hungry-to-pump-oil-pdvsa-crews-skip-work-to-hunt-for-food
“I haven’t eaten meat for two months,” he said. “The last time I did, I spent my whole week’s salary on a chicken meal.”
www.cbsnews.com/news/running-from-putin-after-helping-him-cheat/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab5j&linkId=47966728
Grigory Rodchenkov, the mastermind of the Russian doping scandal that got the country’s Olympic team barred from this year’s Winter Games, now fears for his life for talking about cheating the Russians continue to deny. Rodchenkov is in disguise when tells Scott Pelley his story on 60 Minutes Sunday, Feb. 11 at 7:00 p.m. ET/PT.
www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21736556-indeed-crypto-plunges-make-other-asset-prices-look-tame-bitcoin-and-its-rivals?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/bitcoinanditsrivalsoffernoshelterfromthesto…
THE “biggest bubble in human history comes down crashing,” tweeted Nouriel Roubini, an economist, gleefully. After an exhilarating ride skywards in 2017, investors in crypto-currencies have been rudely reminded that prices can plunge earthwards, too. In mid-December the price of bitcoin was just shy of $20,000; by February 6th, it had fallen to $6,000, before recovering a little (see chart).
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World stock markets nosedived for a fourth day running on Tuesday, having seen US$4 trillion wiped off from what just eight days ago had been record high values.
www.redd-monitor.org/2018/01/31/interview-with-kate-heller-vcs-communications-manager-about-april-salumei-we-cannot-speak-for-the-other-credits-issued-by-the-project/
In 2011, a Swiss company called World Markets AG bought five million “carbon benefit units
One of the developers of the April Salumei REDD project, Sean Lewis, was appointed
www.reuters.com/article/us-china-environment-waste-insight/china-trash-towns-cleanup-bolstered-by-import-ban-idUSKBN1FD043
The dizzying stench of burning plastic still drifts through the alleys, workshops and warehouses of Guiyu, the southern Chinese town that has long symbolized China’s role as the main recycler of the world’s waste.
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South Africa will use the country’s military to protect Cape Town
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Apple has just announced
This announcement actually amounts to far less than meets the eye, but it could well also mark a tectonic shift in the health care la