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Indonesia’s New Capital Will Be Called Nusantara

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhKKoo06sis At the mouth of the Ciliwung River, with a bay which hosts the Thousand Islands and opens out onto the Pacific Ocean after traversing the Java Sea, the Indonesian capital of Jakarta is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in all of Southeast Asia. An important trading post which specialised in pepper, the harbour area of Sunda Kelapa...

COP26 Calls Out Coal But Fails to Act on Historic Losses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9KJxanr03U In the couple of weeks leading up to COP26, scientists continued to sound the alarm bell over the perilous state of the climate. The World Meteorological Organization in the latest edition of its Greenhouse Gas Bulletin showed that despite a brief letup over the early phase of the coronavirus pandemic, the abundance of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere...

Expo 2020 Opens in Dubai

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btxpkWxFxWw Expo 2020 is officially open. Postponed by a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the world fair received a lavish opening ceremony in Dubai with performances from the Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, the American soul singer Andra Day, the British pop star Ellie Goulding, the Chinese concert pianist Lang Lang, and the Beninese and Saudi icons Angélique Kidjo and...

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