France has been fined for excessive pollution in its cities

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The Council of State of France has fined the European nation a € 20 million fine for failing to improve air quality. The French Council of State has decreed that the measures adopted by the public authorities do not guarantee that city pollution thresholds are lowered as quickly as possible. […]

Patrizia Lombardi, Rus. Universities can do a lot to be more sustainable

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In 2013, seven Italian universities spontaneously decided to forge an alliance and focus on sustainability issues. Thus was born the Network of Universities for Sustainable Development (Rus), institutionalized three years later with the recognition by the Conference of Rectors of Italian universities. Today the universities that are part of it […]

Azerbaijan committed war crimes in Nagorno-Karabakh

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A video shows Azerbaijani soldiers killing Armenian POWs in Nagorno-Karabakh. A serious violation of international law. At least seven Armenian soldiers held captive were reported to have died in an execution by the Baku army. Human rights watch called the operation a war crime. Azerbaijani authorities have opened an investigation. […]

What Xi Jinping said at the Chinese Communist Party Congress

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Hong Kong, Taiwan, climate, pandemic and a new development model. Xi Jinping’s speech that will almost certainly lead him back to the leadership of China. The 20th congress of the Communist Party of China was opened by a long speech by President Xi Jinping, in the frame of the immense […]

Mega-blackout in Bangladesh, 130 million people in the dark

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On the afternoon of Tuesday 4 October, two thirds of Bangladesh’s population was left without electricity, including the entire capital Dhaka. Factories closed, traffic lights turned off, emergency generators activated in hundreds of hospitals and health facilities, telephones mobile phones no longer usable, ATM off and internet disappeared. A gigantic […]