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US backs Japan's plan to release radioactive water from Fukushima despite pushback from South Korea, China, and Russia
INSIDER
The US has backed Japan's controversial decision to release over 1.2 million tonnes of contaminated water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean. Climate envoy John Kerry said during a press conference in Seoul on Sunday that he was "confident" that the Japanese government would "continue following due procedures."

El Ejército de Myanmar corteja a los monjes
EL PAÍS
Como cada año a mediados del mes de abril, salvo en 2020 debido al coronavirus, Myanmar (antigua Birmania) y sus países vecinos se sumergieron la pasada semana en la festividad anual budista Thingyan, conocida como Fiesta del Agua. La actual coyuntura, con el país al borde del colapso tras la asonada de febrero, ha enterrado cualquier festejo: en lugar de agua, los manifestantes salpicaron las calles de algunas ciudades con pintura roja como símbolo de las más de 700 vidas segadas por la represión militar.

China, Russia join U.S. promising emission cuts at virtual climate summit
GLOBAL NEWS
President Joe Biden convened leaders of the world’s most powerful countries on Thursday to try to spur global efforts against climate change, drawing commitments from Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin to cooperate on cutting emissions despite their own sharp rivalries with the United States.

Chad President Idriss Deby dies visiting front-line troops: Army
AL JAZEERA
Chad’s longtime President Idriss Deby has died of wounds suffered on the front line in the country’s north, where he had gone to visit soldiers battling rebels, the armed forces said.
Deby, 68, “has just breathed his last defending the sovereign nation on the battlefield” over the weekend, army spokesman General Azem Bermandoa Agouna said in a statement read out on state television on Tuesday, a day after Deby was declared the winner of a presidential election.

La UE anuncia 149 millones en ayuda humanitaria para el Cuerno de África
INFOBAE
La Comisión Europea ha anunciado este viernes 149 millones de euros en ayuda humanitaria para el Cuerno de África, una asistencia que resulta clave para una región azotada por una grave plaga de langostas del desierto que se ha unido a la crisis generada por el coronavirus.

Gerd: Sudan talks tough with Ethiopia over River Nile dam
BBC NEWS
Sudan is caught in the middle of a decade-long row between Ethiopia and Egypt over the dam Ethiopia is building on the River Nile and in recent months it has undergone a major shift in attitude, as Zeinab Mohammed Salih reports from Khartoum.

Gender and unemployment: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic

UNCTAD UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative impact on both women's and men's employment – but at different stages of the crisis due to the gender segregation of economic activities in many countries.UNCTAD analysis shows that early measures to curb the spread of the virus first hit jobs held predominantly by women, such as personal services. At the outset of the pandemic, a higher prevalence of the virus correlated with a higher rate of female unemployment

Dialogue between and Christian and a Hindu about Religion

EL COLMEX

This teacher apparently taught Giuseppe Maria to read Hindustani and some Sanskrit, instructed him in the basics of Hindu religion, and corrected the Hindustani text of the “Dialogue”. A copy of the Hindustani text was first presented to the raja of Bettiah in 1751. Subsequently, an undetermined number of hand-made copies were distributed among persons in the Bettiah area.