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Quezon City, Apr 21 (EFE/EPA).- Farmers in Philippines prepared Wednesday to welcome the Earth Day as urban farming has been gaining ground in the country amid pandemic.Farming projects have provided people in highly urbanized cities of the Philippines an alternative means of livelihood as many vacant lands are being converted into environment-friendly agricultural cooperatives. (Camera: ROLEX DELA PENA).SHOT LIST: FILIPINOS HARVEST GOODS AT THE NEW GREENLAND FARM IN QUEZON CITY, METRO MANILA, PHILIPPINES.
Ankara (Turkey), Jun 18 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Lara Villalón / Erdem Sahin) Cryptocurrencies have conquered the Turks: not only investors see in them a safe haven, many workers with precarious salaries also resort to them to safeguard their savings or seduced by the dream of a bonus awakened by this "digital gold".FOOTAGE OF STORES IN ANKARASOUNDBITES OF SADIK SAHIN, OWNER OF A CYBER CAFE, AND BAUTHAN, EMPLOYEE OF A CAR WASH SAHIN We learned how to produce bitcoins with the equipment we have. We have gotten into the bitcoin business and now we mine bitcoins. By shutting down cybercafes, all colleagues in the industry have turned to bitcoin. We are now in my bitcoin production shop.Here, how many machines are active, on which machine are there problems ... how many bitcoins can we produce, we can follow all of that from here. At this time, our machines are not hot. How much electricity we are spending, we can find out through this program.BAUTHAN Now I have lost. There has been a drop, a sharp drop, because everyone has started withdrawing their bitcoins. Bitcoin has dropped from $ 58,000 to $ 35,000, $ 30,000. It's that I play in dollars. Now I have in my account - for you it would be little, but for me it is a lot -. Normally I should have 150 dollars. But now I have $ 60 in my account. It goes like this: a day 70, a day 80, a day falls to 55. It varies all the time. I don't know what will happen, but I continue.
Marikina City, Apr 22 (EFE/EPA).- Community fruit and vegetable gardens are being developed across Metro Manila to mark Earth Day. Fruit and vegetable gardens are a growing community venture for alternative food resource more than a year since various quarantine measures have been implemented due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Earth Day is observed annually every 22 April to raise awareness and public responsibility in environment-sustainable practices to care for the earth. The theme of this year's earth day is 'Restore Our Earth' and will be marked by events taking place virtually due to the COVID-19 restrictions. (Camera: ROLEX DELA PENA).SHOT LIST: A COMMUNITY GARDEN BEING DEVELOPED TO MARK EARTH DAY IN MARIKINA CITY, METRO MANILA, PHILIPPINES.
The EU's 27 leaders urge Israel not to launch a major ground offensive in the southernmost Gazan city of Rafah, European Council President Charles Michel says. "We call on the government of Israel not to launch a ground operation because we can imagine what would be the consequences if such an operation would be launched," Michel tells the press at an EU summit in Brussels. SOUNDBITE
An Israeli ground invasion of the city of Rafah at the southern end of the Gaza Strip would be a "mistake," US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan says at the White House. SOUNDBITE
French Ecology Minister Christophe Bechu and Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau are booed and hissed at at the Paris international Agricultural Show by around twenty people shouting "Fesneau resign" and holding up signs reading "Come back down to earth", as the two ministers are forced to leave the stand of Ademe, the French Environment and Energy Management Agency. IMAGES