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This is what it's like inside the iconic Maracanã Stadium for the NFL's first game in Rio 🇧🇷
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.@AngieNixon is working to become the next U.S. Senator representing #Florida. You can read about her policies and donate to her campaign at angienixon.com. #AngieNixon
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Tens of thousands remain stranded after floods hit Bangkok, with water more than a metre high in some areas. Thailand is deploying over 10,000 troops to help with evacuations.
Al Jazeera’s Tony Cheng reports.
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#URGENTE: La actriz ganadora del Oscar @SusanSarandon:
"Mi agencia me dejó de representar por asistir a una marcha y pedir un alto el fuego en Gaza. Incluso tengo prohibido aparecer en televisión. En adelante No puedo participar en ninguna película importante."
#UrgenteCOMPARTAN #RTMasivo
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Fog contains typically from 0.05 to 1 grams of water per cubic meter, with droplets from 1 to 40 micrometres in diameter. Fog collection is the harvesting of water from fog using large pieces of vertical mesh.
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BREAKINGNEWS Trumps ambassador to China admits Trump ask President Xi Jinping if they would be interested in US Arms agreement. So China buys US Military equipment and gives it to Iran. Seems like a stupid idea. 🚨
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This is what Bangkok, Thailand looks like right now. In a few decades, our planet is going to be uninhabitable all because of the greed of the billionaire class.
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Every human being has equal value. Every single one.
At the United Nations General Assembly, I challenged a world that still decides whose lives deserve protection and whose suffering can be ignored.
No race is superior. No people are disposable. Until we honour that truth, "everywhere is war" remains a warning we have failed to heed.
What the world needs now is love, with the courage to confront injustice and defend our shared humanity.
Love and a little kindness. For everyone.
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MUGABE ON U.N. BIAS
The United Nations is routinely touted as a robust, impartial and balanced international body. But, the truth is the body is at the mercy of the whims and wishes of the five countries that are permanent members of its Security Council (UNSC): China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States. These countries have the power to veto decisions taken by the other 188 member states.
Pleas to reform the UNSC have repeatedly been ignored. Almost eight decades after it was formed, mostly World War II victors and their vassals sit on the UNSC, which does not reflect global demographics. For instance, how does one justify that France—with a population of less than 70 million—has permanent representation, while the entire African continent—with over 1.2 billion people—does not?
Robert Mugabe, former Zimbabwean prime minister (1980-87) and, later, president (1987-2017), never shied away from calling out Western hypocrisy. In this clip from the 26th African Union Summit, held in 2016 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Mugabe said the UN—as it exists—is a mainly ceremonial organisation. His comments were directed at then-UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who had attended.
Let us know if you agree with Mugabe.
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Speeches don’t shift power. Vetoes do.
Africa gets standing ovations at the UN, but zero say where global war and peace are decided.
Guterres called Africa’s absence from permanent UNSC seats “unjust and indefensible.”
You can’t build a multipolar world on a 1945 veto map.
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The UN Security Council is built on an injustice that should no longer be acceptable in the modern world.
No nation is inherently superior to another.
It was built on an outdated hierarchy where five countries hold permanent veto power over the rest of the world.
Africa, home to 1.4+ billion people and 54 UN member states, still has no permanent seat.
No country should have the power to override decisions supported by the overwhelming majority of the world simply because it won that privilege decades ago.
The United States, Russia, China, France and the UK should not have veto power over the rest of humanity.
Africa is still fighting for two permanent seats at the table while an entire continent of 54 nations remains without a permanent voice.
The principle should be simple: one country, one vote.
Decisions voted upon by the international community should not be held hostage by five powerful states.
If the Security Council cannot be made genuinely representative, accountable and democratic, then what is the point of having it ?
Reform the veto system. Give Africa meaningful representation. End the hierarchy of nations.
Otherwise, just disband the Security Council.
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African leaders have once again called for the continent to be given permanent seats with veto power on the UN Security Council during the ongoing UNGA in New York.
Will the continent ever get the UN's most powerful seats?
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UN should remove Veto power and move with majority of Votes if they want to make progress. Just as EU is removing Veto Power whereby a single country can no longer stop them from carrying out a decision everyone agreed on.
