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    Blame Bolsonaro for the Amazon fire, but Macron is complicit too

    24 Aug 2019

    As the fires in the Amazon rage into their third week, with smoke blanketing the city of Sao Paolo and even visible from space, the world’s attention has been belatedly sparked with the hashtag #AmazonFires trending globally. The INPE which tracks deforestation in Brazil found 1330 square miles of rainforest have been lost since January alone. An increase of 40 per cent on the previous year.

    Palestine president fires all of his advisers

    19 Aug 2019

    Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has fired all of his advisers, his office said on Monday, amid a financial crisis in the occupied West Bank that has prompted deep salary cuts.

    Pope calls for global commitment to put out Amazon fires

    25 Aug 2019

    Six states in Brazil's Amazon have requested military help to combat record fires that are tearing through the rainforest, provoking an international outcry because of the Amazon's central role in combating global warming.

    Rescuers confirm three killed, 300 evacuated after Indonesian Ferry fire

    24 Aug 2019

    The KM Santika Nusantara was travelling between Indonesia's second-largest city of Surabaya and the town of Balikpapan on Borneo island when it caught fire on Thursday evening.

    Why we need historic spaces like Notre Dame

    17 Apr 2019

    It seems the cruellest of ironies: an edifice constructed over the span of centuries, consumed by flames and streamed in real time to an audience of hundreds of millions.

    10,000 homeless after fire razes Bangladesh slum

    18 Aug 2019

    At least 10,000 people are homeless after a massive fire swept through a crowded slum in the Bangladesh capital and destroyed thousands of shanties, officials said Sunday.

    Notre Dame design contest raises eyebrows

    20 Apr 2019

    The French, who know a thing or two about the bold reinvention of architectural landmarks (consider I.M. Pei’s once-despised, now-iconic Louvre Pyramid), have announced an international design competition to restore or redesign the destroyed spire of Notre Dame cathedral.

    In the ancient arms of Notre Dame

    19 Apr 2019

    Why should anyone care about a fire in Paris when we all have more immediate problems closer to home? I’d just finished grading papers, sitting in a rare moment of silence in my office at work, when one of my students came in and said “Notre Dame is burning.”

    Caught between history and creating something new

    18 Apr 2019

    Two holes gape where Notre Dame’s vaulted stone ceiling has collapsed. The cathedral’s 19th century timber spire is gone, as is most of its roof. Portions of the interior walls were blackened by the intense heat of Paris’ most consequential fire in centuries.

    Several dead as fire guts Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh

    23 Mar 2021

    The fire ripped through the Balukhali camp near the southeastern town of Cox's Bazar late on Monday, burning through hundreds of homes as people raced to recover their meagre possessions.

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