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Published by Mongabay “I was born in the country, at home — not in a hospital,” Gaspar Gonçalves do Amaral says proudly. For Amaral, home is the municipality of Arinos in Brazil’s Minas Gerais state, part of the Cerrado grassland that’s watered by the Urucuia and Paracatu rivers. Back then, Amaral says, growing cotton was […]

Published by Al-Araby Israeli police killed a Palestinian man on Friday in the town of Um Al Fahm in northern Israel. Police identified the Palestinian as Fathi Jabareen, a man in his late twenties. According to the Israeli police, Jabareen was allegedly involved in a in a car-ramming attack, which injured two policemen. The Israeli

Published by Al-Araby An attack by so-called Islamic State militants on a village in northern Iraq on Friday killed three villagers and 10 Kurdish soldiers, officials in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region said. The attack took place in the Makhmour region, a hotbed for Islamic State activity that sees regular attacks against Kurdish forces, Iraqi forces

Published by Reuters By Parisa Hafezi, Francois Murphy and John Irish VIENNA (Reuters) -The seventh round of indirect U.S.-Iranian talks on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal will end on Friday with a meeting of the remaining parties to the deal, European and Iranian officials said, with the aim of resuming next week. The gathering

Published by Relaxnews India on Monday opened to foreign tourists from countries with reciprocal agreements after a 20-month ban because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Tour operators said, however, that demand was extremely sluggish due to high ticket prices and remaining restrictions on travellers from Britain, China and elsewhere. The country famous for the Taj Mahal,

Published by The Bangkok Post A man was shot in the chest during a rally after key protest leaders were accused of trying to bring down the constitutional monarchy. The man was shot in front of the Police General Hospital at 5.12pm and was rushed out of the area for treatment. The protest began at

Published by Azer News By Trend Almost 200 nations accepted a contentious climate compromise Saturday aimed at keeping a key global warming target alive, but it contained a last-minute change that some high officials called a watering down of crucial language about coal, Trend reports citing Al Arabiya. Several countries, including small island states, said

Published by Al-Araby Sudanese security forces shot dead at least one protester Saturday in a crackdown on anti-coup demonstrations, medics said, after the military tightened its grip by forming a new ruling council. The pro-democracy protests come nearly three weeks after top general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan ousted the government, detained the civilian leadership and declared

Published by Al-Araby Three Iraqi nationals, including a woman, were killed in violence inside the northeastern Syrian camp of Al-Hol that houses relatives of suspected jihadists, a monitor said Saturday. The overcrowded camp is under the control of the Kurdish administration running the region but violence, mostly perpetrated by the Islamic State group, is frequent.

Published by DPA At least five protesters were taken into custody in the Hague after a demonstration against Dutch coronavirus restrictions turned violent late on Friday, according to a report by the ANP news agency. The demonstrators are accused of throwing rocks and fireworks at police officers and of ignoring police instructions during the event,