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This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 9 RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first elected leftist president, will take office in August with ambitious proposals to halt the record-high rates of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. Petro has promised to limit agribusiness expansion into the forest, and create reserves where Indigenous communities and others are allowed to harvest rubber, acai and other non-timber forest products. He has also pledged income from carbon credits to finance replanting. “From Colombia, we will give humanity a reward, a remedy, a solution: not to burn the Amazon rainforest anymore, to recover it to its natural frontier, to give humanity the possibility of life on this planet," Petro, wearing an Indigenous headdress, said to a crowd in the Amazon city of Leticia during his campaign. But to do that he first needs to establish reign over large, … [Read more...] about New Colombian president pledges to protect rainforest

AFP Washington, United States   ● Sun, June 26, 2022 2022-06-26 13:10 0 e16ff64e7ecc29b417414912232fde4c 2 Americas US,abortion,protest,Washington,Supreme-Court,conservatism Free Abortion rights defenders fanned out across America Saturday for a second day of protest against the Supreme Court's thunderbolt ruling, as state after conservative state moved swiftly to ban the procedure. The deeply polarized country grappled with a new level of division: between states that will now or soon deny the right to abortion, enshrined since 1973, and those that still allow it. A few thousand people thronged the streets Saturday outside the fenced-off Supreme Court in Washington, in hot summer weather, carrying signs that read "War on women, who's next?" and "No uterus, No opinion." "What happened yesterday is indescribable and disgusting," said Mia Stagner, 19, a political science major in college. "Being forced to be a mother is not something any woman should … [Read more...] about Fresh protests as new US abortion reality takes shape

Korean pop group BTS is blessing fans in 2020 with two albums. BigHit Entertainment, the group’s management agency, announced on Twitter that their second album of the year, called ‘BE’ will be released on November 20. BTS, which stands for Beyond the Scene, released their first album of the year ‘Map of the Soul: 7’ in February. The BTS Army was elated when the announcement about the second album’s release date went out on Sunday. Pre-orders for the record begin on September 28. “BE (Deluxe Edition) contains the most ‘BTS-esque’ music yet. The latest story from BTS begins by declaring that ‘even in the face of this new normality, our life goes on’ and imparts a message of healing to fans and to the world,” an announcement from BigHit Entertainment read. #BTS #방탄소년단 BE #BTS_BE pic.twitter.com/3UAERKq5si — BigHit Entertainment (@BigHitEnt) September 27, 2020 The announcement also said that for this album in particular, “the septet took a step further and was involved … [Read more...] about BTS Blessing Fans with Two Albums in 2020, Second One to Release in November

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - The U.S. Supreme Court's abortion decision is expected to make Florida an epicenter of the state-by-state fight over the issue in the coming months, raising the stakes for abortion rights advocates in the November election and complicating effortsw by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to manage both his statewide and national political fortunes. Within hours of the court's decision, access to abortion emerged as a major fault line in America's divisive cultural battles. Thirteen conservative states with "trigger bans" will outlaw abortion within 30 days - and the procedure could soon be prohibited in several others. Lawmakers in heavily Democratic northern and western states are promising to become safe havens for women who want an abortion but are banned from receiving one at home. But in Florida, where residents in a half-dozen relatively liberal urban counties are continually locked in political duels with the conservatives who dominate much of the rest of … [Read more...] about Florida emerges as key battleground in state-by-state abortion fight

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 15 ROME (AP) — Pope Francis celebrated families Saturday and urged them to shun “selfish” decisions that are indifferent to life as he closed out a big Vatican rally a day after the U.S. Supreme Court ended constitutional protections for abortion. Francis didn’t refer to the ruling or explicitly mention abortion in his homily. But he used the buzzwords he has throughout his papacy about the need to defend families and to condemn a “culture of waste” that he believes is behind the societal acceptance of abortion. “Let us not allow the family to be poisoned by the toxins of selfishness, individualism, today's culture of indifference and waste, and as a result lose its very DNA, which is the spirit of welcoming and service,” he said. The pope, noting that some couples allow their fears and anxieties to “thwart the … [Read more...] about Pope hails families, blasts ‘culture of waste’ after Roe

Children who are obese are more prone to dementia decades later, according to new research. Obesity increases the risk of cognitive decline in middle age - which can lead to full-blown dementia. The finding is based on more than 1,200 people tracked for over 30 years , starting when they were in school. "Developing strategies that improve low fitness and decrease obesity levels in childhood are important because it could contribute to improvements in cognitive performance in midlife," said lead author Professor Michele Callisaya, of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. "Importantly the study also indicates protective strategies against future cognitive decline may need to start as far back as early childhood, so the brain can develop sufficient reserve against developing conditions such as dementia in older life." Dementia cases worldwide will triple to over 150 million by 2050. With no cure in sight, there is an increasing focus on lifestyle factors that reduce the … [Read more...] about Overweight children “more prone to Alzheimer’s decades later”: Study