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Portugal Preparing Several Billion-Dollar Clean Energy Projects
By Andy Corble at the Good News Network Spared from the ravages of COVID-19 suffered by her neighbor Spain, Portugal is aiming to leap, rather than tip-toe, out of their lockdown initiatives by launching a series of clean energy projects that could generate 5.5 billion euro in European energy investment. The new solar-powered hydrogen plant…
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20 Dutch Musicians Weave Together Beethoven’s Best Melody
By the Good News Network Twenty Dutch musicians from the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra were forced to stay sequestered in their homes this week amidst COVID-19 shutdowns—but they still came together in harmony to produce a powerful music video for the world. With a full string section, woodwinds, and brass horns, the video opens with the…
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UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders: Support consensus renewal
By CAP Freedom of Conscience At the 43rd session of the Human Rights Council, States will consider a resolution extending for three years the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights Defenders. Civil society organisations from across the world are calling on all States to support the consensus renewal of the…
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Europe Day AD 2020 comes at a time of great test for the Union – Message of EPP President Donald Tusk
by EPP Seventy years ago, Robert Schuman published his Plan for Europe which led to the creation of the European Union. Today, the need for unity of our continent seems even more evident. With all its flaws and errors, the Union is the only real alternative to the Europe of egoisms, conflicts, poverty and oppression.…
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An active faith may hold the key to a longer, healthier life
An active faith may hold the key to a longer, healthier life Khadija, an older Algerian woman, at first seems not to understand the question when asked about the role her religion and beliefs play in her well-being. By *Elisa Di Benedetto and *Larbi Megari She instinctively relied on Islam as a young woman living…
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European Bureau for Conscientious Objection ask for Military to #STAYHOME
The EBCO has made a call for the military to stop. They said that “In times of pandemic, EBCO (European Bureau for Conscientious Objection) and Movimento Nonviolento come together to say that there is always a useful distancing: that of our consciences from war and its preparation. What does it mean? It means spending in…
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United Nations recognizes Scientology Foundation with Special Consultative to the ECOSOC
New NGO status empowers MEJORA, the Foundation for the Improvement of Life, Culture and Society, to add to accomplishing the objectives of the UN Economic and Social Council and the helpful points of the Scientology religion. Mejora signifies “improvement” in Spanish, and Fundacion MEJORA is an adept name for the association that has quite recently…
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Australia Channel 9’s Ben McCormack under Child Pornography charges
Ben McCormack, the host of Channel 9’s A Current Affair program, was suspended after police raided the Sydney, Australia, TV station in their investigation of his alleged involvement with “sexually explicit” child pornography. (Published originally by STAND) McCormack, who has worked at Channel 9 for 25 years, according to the Daily Mail is being investigated for sending…