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‘If we don’t give, people don’t eat’: Yemen focus of UK Ramadan giving

Yemen is grappling with the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, and is on the brink of famine. About 80% of Yemen’s population – more than 24 million people – are in need of humanitarian assistance, including more than 12 million children, according to Unicef. Nearly 2.3 million children under the age of five will suffer acute malnutrition in 2021.

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France : Un Marocain parmi les gagnants de l’European BEST Engineering Competition

L’élève ingénieur marocain Hicham Bouanani fait partie du groupe qui a remporté le Hackathon de l’European BEST Engineering Competition Paris Saclay 2021. Avec ses camarades Simon Tronchi, Arnaud Petit et Matthieu Annequin, le quatuor a réussi à innover dans une solution de «description en langage naturel d’un arbre à partir de sa position».

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Four steps this Earth Day to avert environmental catastrophe

Today is Earth Day, which should provide us with an opportunity to pause and confront the awful predicament humanity faces. We eat microplastics, breathe pollution and watch other life-forms decline to extinction. We face intersecting poverty, health, climate and biodiversity crises. Our global predicament is that consumption by the wealthy is driving us towards planetary disaster, yet billions live in poverty and need to consume more to live well. In this cycle, any version of “success” only hastens catastrophe.

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