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Was bedeutet die Swiss League für unsere Nationalmannschaft(en)? Der Chef der A-Nati gibt Auskunft.

Après un début de saison caniculaire et particulièrement sec, la pluie semble enfin faire son retour. Pour ce vendredi 18 novembre 2022, l’Office national de la météorologie (ONM) a émis une alerte mettant en garde contre des averses de pluies orageuses qui affecteront plusieurs régions du pays durant ce week-end. Dans un bulletin météorologique spécial […]

L’article Météo Algérie : la pluie au rendez-vous dans 28 wilayas ce 18 novembre est apparu en premier sur .

The influencer has more than 400,000 subscribers on YouTube, but he still fears unemployment.

Des précisions sur les compétences d’exécution et une liste officielle de ce qui n’est pas considéré comme de la publicité politique figurent parmi les changements apportés dans le dernier texte de compromis sur le règlement relatif à la publicité politique.

Die russischen Invasionstruppen in der Ukraine bereiten sich nach Einschätzung britischer Militärexperten auf weitere Rückschläge vor. Das geht aus dem täglichen Geheimdienst-Update des Verteidigungsministeriums in London am Freitag hervor.

While technically allowed in some cases, abortion in Poland may as well be forbidden, putting women's lives at risk, said Robert Biedron, EU lawmaker and leader of the Polish opposition party Nova Lewika on Thursday (17 November).

Euronews: Tovább folyik a vizsgálat annak kiderítéséért, pontosan hogyan csapódhatotott be egy rakéta lengyel területre a hét elején. A jelenleg rendelkezésre álló információk alapján az amerikai külügyminiszter kijelentette, hogy a felelős Oroszország. Eközben Andrzej Duda lengyel elnök leszögezte, hogy Ukrajna a nemzetközi jognak megfelelően vehet részt a vizsgálatban.

Kada su Rusi napali Kijev, Maja je shvatila da će njena zemlja doslovno biti okupirana. Uspela je da napusti Ukrajinu sa majkom i psima i da izbegne u Srbiju. Za nju, rat traje od 2014, ali se 24. februara nešto u njoj slomilo. Od tada se trudi4 da nastavi da živi.
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The OSCE Transnational Threats Department launched an E-learning Course on the ‘Fundamentals of Preventing Violent Extremism and Radicalization that Lead to Terrorism (VERLT)’ on 22 November 2022.

The self-paced e-learning course targets people with leadership potential, who are well connected in their communities, actively contribute to positive change, and are motivated to make an impact against violent extremism. It strengthens participants’ skills and knowledge in human rights-based prevention efforts so they can further contribute to building the resilience of local communities.

The course is based on the ‘Leaders against Intolerance and Violent Extremism (LIVE)’ capacity-building initiative, which draws both from the OSCE Ministerial Council Declaration 4/15 and the elements of the United Nations Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism.  The LIVE initiative highlights that inclusion of civil society is imperative to effectively address all aspects of violent extremism and it aims at building related capacity to voluntarily, safely and efficiently speak up and take action against VERLT.

The course is currently available in English, with a Russian language version upcoming. Itis divided into four sessions: Understanding violent extremism; Addressing violent extremism; Media and Information literacy, and; Human rights in the context of counter-terrorism and addressing violent extremism.

This resource can be accessed free of charge on the OSCE E-learning platform.

The course was developed under an extra-budgetary programme funded by Austria, Belgium, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Slovakia, and the United States of America.

Karen Mapusua, SPC’s Director of the Land Resources Division, would like to see food high up on the loss and damage fund if it is agreed to. Credit Busani Bafana/IPS

By Busani Bafana
SHARM EL SHEIKH, Nov 18 2022 (IPS)

Food is everything to the culture and identity of the Pacific island countries.

Climate change impacts of rising sea levels and higher temperatures threaten islanders’ food security, which is largely dependent on fisheries and subsistence agriculture. Almost 70 percent of islanders rely on agriculture for their livelihood.

Pacific island countries at the COP27 summit, taking place at Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt, say agriculture is high on their agenda, with parties to the UNFCCC calling for a decision to protect food security through the mobilisation of climate finance for adaptation.

Activists at the COP27 summit demand food and agriculture remain on the negotiation’s agenda. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPS

At the COP negotiations, agriculture features on many levels, including during discussions on the ongoing Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture (KJWA) – a formal process established to highlight the potential of food and agriculture in tackling climate change. However, there has been no progress in countries making commitments to placing agriculture and food systems in the final text.

The agriculture sector accounts for 37% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, with land seen as a potential major carbon sink that can be considered for capturing emissions.

Could agriculture be off the menu?

“Not yet,” says Karen Mapusua, Pacific Community’s (SPC) Director of the Land Resources Division. “Unless the parties can come together and through their work demonstrate the value of the Koronivia work programme and a clear way forward for it, then that is a risk.”

She explains that it was critical to keep the Koronivia plan alive and secure a global strategy for agriculture and food systems to be considered solutions for climate change adaptation and mitigation.

“Agriculture contributes 30 percent of emissions, and everybody has to eat, and if we do not take this seriously, then we are in trouble,” said Mapusua, who is also the President of IFOAM Organics International, a global organisation specialising in changing agricultural practices.

Pacific countries are very low emitters of harmful carbon emissions – except for a few high-input industries like sugar production in Fiji and the commercial production of exotic horticulture for export.

“We are losing productive land to sea level rise, inundation and desalination of soils near the coast,” she said. Farmers have experienced increased pests and diseases due to a change in temperatures and weather conditions. For example, the islands have been hit by an infestation of the coconut rhinoceros beetle, an invasive pest that can destroy coconut plantations.

Farmers are also experiencing changes in fruiting patterns for major crops. Farmers are relocating their vanilla plantations in Vanuatu because it no longer flowers in the area where it was once most productive.

Developing countries are also pushing for the establishment of a loss and damage facility where they can be compensated for damage caused by climate change, particularly to infrastructure. However, no decision has been reached on this demand.

“There will be a lot of competition on what goes in the loss and damage fund, but I am hopeful that because food is so essential, it will be higher up the priority list when it comes to accessing finance through such a facility, if it is agreed on,” Mapusua, told IPS.

Fish eaters but threatened fisheries

Islanders are also dependent on fisheries for food security. This sector has also been affected by rising sea levels and high temperatures, which have led to the bleaching of coral reefs, which are a key habitat for fish.

Scientific research projects a decline in coastal fisheries of up to 20 percent by 2050 in the western Pacific and up to 10 percent by 2050 in the eastern Pacific, which would impact heavily on the diet of islanders who, on average, consume 58 kg of fish annually.

Mapusua said the island countries were building aquaculture at a local level and poultry to compensate for the projected loss of fisheries.

In Vanuatu, the government was deploying fish aggregating devices (FADS), which are offshore floating objects to attract fish. The project has enabled farmers to harvest fish from the locations where the devices have been installed without travelling far from the coast to fish. In addition, a fishponds system has been promoted at the household level, encouraging families to build their own fishponds to harvest fish.

Nelson Kalo, a Senior Mitigation Officer in the Ministry of Climate Change in Vanuatu, adds there are other projects too.

“Vanuatu is also promoting climate resilience projects working with the United Nations Development Programme to replicate climate resilient root crops that communities when climate condition change.”

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Für die Reparatur des Gotthardtunnels ist derzeit eine zweite Röhre im Bau. Doch nun stehen Militäranlagen im Felsinnern im Weg und müssen umgebaut werden. Weitere Auskünfte? Geheimsache, sagt das Bundesamt für Strassen.

In der Saporischschja-Region proben ukrainischen Truppe den Einsatz von neuen Waffen, die westliche Verbündete geliefert haben. Der Granat-Werfer soll eine grössere Reichweite haben und die Möglichkeit bieten, die Flugbahn der Granate zu messen.

Laut schwedischen Ermittlungen war Sprengstoff für die Explosionen und die folgenden Lecks an den Pipelines Nord Stream 1 und 2 verantwortlich.