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Across Asia, governments are learning to live with U.S. financial dominance – without depending on it.

Less than a week after visiting Donald Trump in the White House, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev traveled to Russia to further the countries’ proclaimed “eternal alliance.”

Dans ce vaste atelier qu'était devenu le Jeu de Paume, l'exposition « Le monde selon l'IA » explorait les interactions entre l'intelligence artificielle et la création artistique. Un catalogue permet de retrouver et prolonger cette « expérience », pour reprendre son lexique, au fil des textes (…) / Technologie, Informatique, Internet, Art

Three prominent DPP politicians were in Europe this month.

Boualem Sansal a été embastillé à Alger pour avoir déclaré : « Quand la France a colonisé l’Algérie, toute la partie ouest de l’Algérie faisait partie du Maroc ».

En disant cela, Boualem Sansal donna une immense visibilité à ce que, hormis Benjamin Stora et son école, tous les historiens sérieux ne cessent d’écrire depuis des décennies, à savoir que l’Algérie, création coloniale a été formée de bric et de broc par le rattachement de pans entiers du Maroc, de la Tunisie et de la Libye. Selon Benjamin Stora, dire cela « blesse le sentiment national algérien ». Sans doute. Mais l’Histoire est l’Histoire, ce que, ayant les « yeux de Chimène » pour l’Algérie « révolutionnaire » , l’ancien militant trotskiste semble avoir oublié.

Le paradoxe est que l’Algérie qui demande un insolite référendum d’autodétermination pour un inexistant « peuple saharaoui », a, en revanche, toujours et avec constance, refusé qu’une telle consultation soit proposée aux populations originellement marocaines du Touat, du Tidikelt, du Gourara, de la Saoura, de Tindouf, de Béchar et de Tabelbala au sujet de leur volonté de rattachement national. Et que dire du refus opposé par Alger à toute demande de référendum d’autodétermination en Kabylie ?

Affaiblie diplomatiquement après son échec cuisant devant le Conseil de sécurité de l’ONU au sujet du Sahara « occidental », l’Algérie est régionalement brouillée avec ses voisins - hormis la malheureuse Tunisie devenue une quasi willaya algérienne -, elle est en froid avec la Russie pourtant son allié historique, et elle vit un chaotique climat de fin de règne. Dans ces conditions, comment va-t-elle être en mesure de justifier aux yeux de ceux qui en sont les victimes, les acquis territoriaux hérités d’une colonisation française qu’elle voue aux gémonies et à laquelle elle doit tout, jusqu’à son nom et ses frontières. ?

Pour en savoir plus sur l’artificialité territoriale de l’Algérie voir :
Algérie l’histoire à l’endroit
Histoire des Algéries, des origines à nos jours

Der Euractiv vorliegende Entwurf des Cardiovascular Health Plans sieht zudem Maßnahmen bei Tabak, Screening und KI-gestützter Prävention vor.

The political space for action exists. What’s missing is leadership willing to act on what courts have already decided.

La France a rendu hommage jeudi aux 130 victimes des attentats du 13-Novembre qui avaient ensanglanté la capitale en 2015. Les autorités ont voulu mettre l'accent sur la fraternité et la résilience des Français face à l'obscurantisme des terroristes.

Japan is most likely to diverge from U.S. foreign policy positions when its energy security is at stake. 

Prosecutors and the opposition party are elevating their attacks on Lee over a recent court ruling.

Le ministre norvégien des finances, Jens Stoltenberg, lance un appel de dernière minute alors que les pays de l'UE s'apprêtent à approuver de nouvelles mesures de sauvegarde le 18 novembre.

The post La Norvège s’oppose aux droits de douane européens sur ses exportations de ferro-alliages  appeared first on Euractiv FR.

While the Quad leaders are unlikely to meet this year, Malabar 2025 is going ahead.

Despite a recent de-escalation, China-EU relations are far from normal.

If we do not have our land and healthy territory, we do not have healthy food, and without food we do not survive. Food must become a centerpiece in the global climate discourse, and it is not just about any food, but healthy food that aligns with our ancestry and local traditions and spirituality. —Juliana Kerexu Mirim Mariano, activist

Les ministres de l'économie de l'UE envisagent de prendre des mesures contre l'afflux de colis chinois bon marché, mais ils ont encore besoin de se mettre d'accord sur un texte juridique.

The post Les pays de l’UE veulent supprimer l’exonération des droits de douane sur les colis d’une valeur inférieure à 150 euros appeared first on Euractiv FR.

As fans in Ghana debate bringing in diaspora players for the World Cup, Crystal Palace's Eddie Nketiah does not rule out switching allegiance to the Black Stars.

Le magnifique nouveau musée d’art ouest-africain (Mowaa) du Nigéria se retrouve au cœur des luttes de pouvoir locales.

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Integration of crop-livestock systems in Urubici, State of Santa Catarina, southern Brazil. Credit: Ivan Cheremisin's/Unsplash

By Appolinaire Djikeng
NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 14 2025 (IPS)

As the world gathers in Brazil for the UN climate talks, the country’s livestock sector – one of the largest in the world – is understandably in the spotlight.

Livestock are a significant contributor of greenhouse gas emissions in Brazil (and around the world) and have been linked to deforestation, but these animals represent so much more than that to so many, especially in the Global South.

Brazil accounts for approximately 20 per cent of global beef exports. The livestock sector is a major contributor to the country’s economy – responsible for 8.4 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) and roughly nine million jobs.

For 1.3 billion people worldwide, livestock is a lifeline: a protector of livelihoods, guardian of nutrition, cornerstone of tradition, and potential pathway out of poverty. For the majority and especially pastoralists, reducing herd sizes is not an easy, or frankly viable, option.

COP30 is supposed to bring people from vastly different contexts together, to find solutions that work for everyone, as well as funding to enable it to happen. This year’s host offers special lessons for Africa’s livestock sector, as Brazil’s livestock sector was not always so productive and efficient.

Brazilian policies and investments have seen livestock productivity rise 61 per cent in the past two decades, while pasture land use and emissions intensity – that is, the emissions per unit of meat, milk or eggs produced – have gone down.

The key to this success has been avoiding uniform prescriptions and instead adopting regionally adapted and context-specific approaches.

For example, high-yield tropical grasses like Brachiaria have become central to boosting productivity across the country’s Cerrado region, improving cattle health and overall performance, and reducing costs. In southern Brazil, where smaller farms are more common, the integration of crop-livestock systems have increased land efficiency, promoted biodiversity, and diversified farm incomes. Mineral supplements and high-energy feeds have had the biggest impact in the Southeast of Brazil, where there are large feedlots.

Much like Brazil thirty years ago, many of today’s developing countries struggle to produce meat, milk and eggs efficiently. Poor quality feed, animal health, and genetics mean animals take much longer to reach slaughter weight or milk volume. Even if herd sizes are smaller, the emissions per unit of product can be 16 times higher.

The impact is that hunger and poverty are prevalent in these countries and, in some, still rising. Micronutrient deficiency – a result of insufficient animal-source food consumption – is also widespread among children, which has a devastating effect on health and economic development (contributing to annual GDP losses up to 16 per cent).

This is why at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) we are researching science-based interventions that raise productivity and cut emissions intensity. For example, MaziwaPlus is an animal health-oriented project focused on Mastitis, a disease in dairy cows responsible for milk yield losses of up to 25 per cent. With Scotland’s Rural College we are also working on highly digestible forages, which could result in 20 per cent methane emissions reductions. EnviroCow is another productivity-oriented initiative, trying to identify livestock that remain productive despite environmental challenges.

And ILRI’s work does not stop at research. The Institute also connects evidence with policy and practice, as seen in Kenya’s recent submission to the UNFCCC’s Sharm el-Sheikh portal, which cites participatory rangeland management approaches developed by ILRI and partners.

Unlocking these benefits at the global level will require reframing the worldwide sustainability discussion around livestock – seeing it as a solution to be invested in, rather than a problem to be swept under the rug.

For example, climate finance should start rewarding reductions in emissions intensity (not just absolute emissions), so that countries improving productivity and lowering emissions per litre of milk or kilo of meat are supported. Moreover, the world needs to invest far more than the 0.2 per cent of climate finance currently put towards livestock research and innovation (and even less to developing solutions in low- and middle-income countries).

Most importantly, livestock should be embedded in national climate plans. Livestock should be recognised as more than a source of emissions, and as an important solution for climate resilience, food security, and adaptation – especially in developing countries and regions where they are the backbone of rural economies.

But as COP30 concludes, the conversation cannot end there.

This year’s conference must be a moment when the world recognises that livestock, managed well, are an important part of a more pragmatic global strategy which both protects the planet and raises the welfare of its people.

The timing could not be more fitting as next year will begin the UN-declared International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists. Rangelands cover over half of the Earth’s land surface, store vast amounts of carbon, and support hundreds of millions of pastoralist livestock keepers, yet barely feature in most national climate plans.

If we choose to recognise and act on the potential of rangelands and pastoralists, they can become one of the great success stories of climate and development – driven by science, stewardship, and local knowledge.

Professor Appolinaire Djikeng is the Director General of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI).

IPS UN Bureau

 

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DRAFT REPORT on the EU enlargement strategy
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Petras Auštrevičius

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