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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on a visit to Germany, says he sees all faiths as equal and rejects suggestions that his attacks on Israel have anti-Semitic undertones. "If there was a struggle against anti-Semitism, I was the first leader in the world to lead that struggle," Erdogan says during a joint media appearance with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. SOUNDBITE
King Philip of Belgium and Queen Mathilde of Flanders meet with Congolese professor Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfum, a leading figure in the fight against Ebola, at the National Institute for Biomedical Research (INRB) in the capital city of Kinshasa, on the third day of their visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo. IMAGES
The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during his visit in Kenya says Washington will push for a global agreement to "combat ocean plastic pollution" at the UN Environmental Assembly next year. SOUNDBITE
Madrid, Dec. 4 (EFE), (Camera: Victoria Moreno).- From Asia to South America, Indigenous women's movements work together demanding more presence and recognition worldwide as frontline fighters against climate change.“Women have a crucial role in many aspects and we can contribute to the solution of the climate change,” Pirawan Wongnithisathaporn, from Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (Thailand), told EFE. As the ones who directly suffer the global warming effects, women from indigenous communities around the world claimed for their role in climate action during the ongoing 2019 Climate Summit.In most traditional communities, food security, healthcare are roles adopted by women. FOOTAGE OF 2019 CLIMATE SUMMIT AND INDIGENOUS WOMEN'S TALK ON WEDNESDAY IN MADRID. SOUNDBITES OF:-PIRAWAN WONGNITHISATHAPORN, ASIA INDIGENOUS PEOPLES PACT (THAILAND).-NAIJELIJELI TIPAP, PINGO'S FORUM (TANZANIA). -MELANIA CANALES, FROM ONAMIAP (PERU):“Indigenous women suffer triple discrimination: for being women, for being indigenous and for being poor.““And we talk about racism we say that is violence because in a way it psychologically affects you.”
According to a report by Gizmodo, a privacy expert tasked with helping a new smart city protect the privacy of residents has resigned over concerns that her guidelines would be largely ignored. Ann Cavoukian, the former privacy commissioner of Ontario, wrote in her resignation letter from Google sister company Sidewalk Labs, “I imagined us creating a Smart City of Privacy, as opposed to a Smart City of Surveillance." Gizmodo reports that earlier this month, in an op-ed, former BlackBerry CEO Jim Balsillie referred to the development as “a colonizing experiment in surveillance capitalism attempting to bulldoze important urban, civic and political issues.”
A woman who was present with her daughter at the Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena recounted the suicide bombing attack, which occurred on Monday night, May 22, as attendees were leaving the concert. 22 people were killed and scores injured as a result. Police have named 22-year-old Salman Abedi as the main suspect, who police believe was killed in the blast, and have arrested another man in connection with the crime.