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READ MORE Bamboo is synonymous with Hong Kong’s ever-growing skyline and has been an integral part of the building industry for centuries. However, despite its low cost and eco-friendly nature, local laws were making it irrelevant. But not any more. Now, a group of architects is taking up the challenge to give this sustainable material a new lease of life.   Al Jazeera’s Sarah Clarke reports from Hong Kong. Article source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/the-national-today-paris-robbery-influenza-flu-hockey-1.4481233?cmp=rss

READ MORE On January 23, 2015, the world woke up to the news that Salman bin Abdul Aziz had been crowned king of Saudi Arabia, and he was making important decisions such as the appointment of his 29-year-old son as defence minister. Prince Mohammed bin Salman was new to the world of diplomacy. He had a degree in private law and had worked in commercial companies, but had only been part of the royal court for a few months. While analysts scrutinised the young minister of defence, Prince Mohammed made his first decisive move – one still being dissected today. On March 26, 2015, the crown prince launched Operation Decisive Storm against Yemen’s Houthi rebels, turning the conflict into a devastating war that has killed tens of thousands of people and destroyed cities built hundreds of years ago. Prince Mohammed – known by his initials MBS – then brought the war home, arresting powerful princes and businessmen and holding them for months until they agreed to his dikta...

READ MORE La popularité d’Emmanuel Macron est remontée de deux points, à 31% de satisfaits, au même niveau que le Premier ministre Édouard Philippe, qui gagne lui un point, selon un sondage Opinionway pour LCI publié dimanche. Dans cette enquête réalisée mercredi et jeudi, après l’attaque meurtrière sur le marché de Noël de Strasbourg, ils sont 7% à se dire très satisfaits et 24% assez satisfaits de l’action du chef de l’État, contre 67% de mécontents (23% d’assez mécontents et 44% de très mécontents), selon l’institut. Après avoir fortement chuté durant l’été, la cote de satisfaction envers l’action du président de la République remonte après s’être stabilisée depuis trois mois et un plus bas en septembre, à 28% de satisfaits. A la même époque de leur quinquennat, Nicolas Sar...

READ MORE Le mouvement des gilets jaunes arrive-t-il à sa fin? C’est la grande question de cette fin de semaine alors que ”l’acte 5” s’est déroulé samedi 15. Contre toute attente, la mobilisation des gilets jaunes a été bien plus faible qu’attendue que ce soit à Paris ou en province. Alors que le gouvernement et la majorité espèrent que le mouvement de protestation s’essouffle, les gilets jaunes les plus engagés militent au contraire pour qu’un ”acte 6” se tienne samedi 22 décembre. A voir aussi: “Gilets jaunes” – après la décrue, l’exécutif mise sur une sortie de crise Sur Facebook, des événements ont déjà été publiés ce dimanche 16 et les pages invitant les citoyens mécontents à se rendre sur les Champs Elysées le week-end prochain. Ils rassemblent tous des milliers de personnes, parfois m...

READ MORE Due to a possible E-coli contamination, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says certain cauliflower, red leaf lettuce and green leaf lettuce products produced by Adam Bros. Farming Inc. of Santa Maria, Calif., have been recalled. In a news release, the CFIA said the products imported by distributors​ in Ontario and Quebec should not be consumed, sold or used by consumers, retailers, restaurants or institutions.  The CFIA says food contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 may not look or smell spoiled, but can still make you sick. The symptoms can include nausea, vomiting, mild to severe abdominal cramps and watery to bloody diarrhea.  Thus far, there have been no reported illnesses associated with the consumption of these products, according to the agency.    The products are known to have been sold in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador and...

READ MORE The Ontario government is slashing $25 million in funding for specialized programs in elementary and secondary schools across the province.  The cut will mean the end of a number of initiatives for at-risk youth, including an after-school program run by teens in low-income areas that was established in the wake of the so-called “Summer of the Gun” in Toronto.  According to the city’s public school board, the move will also affect programs that encouraged physical activity among  students and offered in-class tutors to children, as well as supports for racialized youth. Marit Stiles, the NDP education critic, says the cut will be “deeply felt” by Ontario students. The Toronto District School Board said the cut affects 11 grants administered through a special fund known as the Education Programs — Other (EPO). It is separate from the general operating fund. Progra...

READ MORE The UN-brokered equal between Yemen ‘s pro-government army and Houthi rebels in a Red Sea city of Hodeidah “really needs to come into operation loyal away”,  the  United Nations  humanitarian arch told Al Jazeera. Mark Lowcock, UNHCR’s under-secretary-general, on Sunday told a network’s flagship talk show, Talk to Al Jazeera, a ceasefire reached in Sweden on Thursday should fast be “translated into a genuine change on a ground”. “We’ve got a good news from Sweden – parties have concluded initial stairs to de-escalate a dispute or to try to pierce things forward,” he said. “People I’ve listened to – relatives of starving children, people who have fled from their homes, infrequently mixed times – they’re not saying nonetheless any discernible benefit.” Clashes shook Yemen’s flashpoint city of Hodeidah on Sunday after atmosphere strikes and lethal fight...

READ MORE A automobile explosve has killed during slightest 4 people and bleeding 20 others in a northern Syrian city of Afrin hold by pro- Turkey rebels, a Turkish state-run Anadolu news organisation said. The blast on Sunday came after Turkish President Recep Tayyip  Erdogan threatened  earlier this week to launch a new descent opposite a Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Syria “in a few days”. Meanwhile, a UK-based fight monitor, a Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, pronounced 8 people – four civilians and 4 fighters –  were killed, with a activist-operated Shaam news organisation stating a same genocide toll. It was not immediately transparent who was behind a blast. Rebel army corroborated by a Turkish army seized Afrin from a YPG in early 2018 in their second large-scale operation into northern Syria given 2016. Turkey accuses a YPG of being “terrorists”. However, a armed organisation is a fortitude o...

READ MORE L’eurodéputé du Rassemblement inhabitant Nicolas Bay a affirmé dimanche qu’il “ne croyait pas” à la fin de la mobilisation des “gilets jaunes” et a jugé peu crédible la possibilité d’une liste de ce mouvement aux élections européennes. Interrogé flow savoir si la mobilisation en net recul des “gilets jaunes” samedi marquait la fin du mouvement, M. Bay, membre du business exécutif du RN, a répondu “non je ne crois pas”, dans l’émission Questions politiques de FranceInfo/FranceInter/LeMonde. “Le fait qu’au hitch de cinq semaines consécutives il y ait un peu moins de monde dans les rues, ça ne veut pas apocalyptic que les Français ne restent pas préoccupés et mobilisés (ou) que les +gilets jaunes+ ne reprendront pas leur mobilisation peut-être après les fêtes”, a développé ...

READ MORE Grosse gaffe. C’est Miss Tahiti qui a été élue Miss France samedi 15 au soir sur TF1. Et si bien sûr le sacre de Vaimalama Chaves a été très commenté, une bourde sans précédent de la prolongation a aussi été largement pointée du doigt. Alors que la cérémonie battait son plein au Zénith de Lille, la prolongation a diffusé un duplex depuis les coulisses, au and près des Miss. Si près que les téléspectateurs les and attentifs ont pu voir la poitrine de certaines alors que d’autres ne portaient pas de culotte. A voir aussi: Miss Tahiti, Vaimalama Chaves, élue Miss France 2019 Si la bourde a fait rire certains internautes, d’autres ont wail les pauvres jeunes femmes qui ont vu leur intimité révélée à des millions de Français. Certains d’entre eux se sont même demandé si une caméra dans les coulisses é...

READ MORE After an random outing around bearer service, a 17-hour expostulate and a 2,400-kilometre turn trip, a cat came back. A Nova Scotia family was reunited with their pet Saturday night after a animal crawled into a box firm for Alberta some-more than a week ago.  Purolator employees discovered a cat in Montreal and called a internal SPCA, that tracked down its owners.  Jacqueline Lake had been acid for her family’s one-year-old tabby for 4 days when she got a call.  She and her family suspicion a cat competence have transient while a kids were withdrawal for school. They put adult flyers and went around a community knocking on doors and looking underneath sheds.  “I was unequivocally starting to remove wish he was going to come back. He’s a unequivocally pliable kitty, though he’s unequivocally extraordinary and gets into things,” pronounced Lake.  Volunteers gathering him home Lake guessed that a cat, Baloo, had ...

READ MORE Miss something this week? Don’t panic. CBC’s  Marketplace  rounds adult a consumer and health news you need. Want this in your inbox?  Get the  Marketplace  newsletter each Friday. Cameras in cosmetic surgeon’s office It’s substantially protected to contend that many people design sum remoteness when they travel into a diagnosis room during their doctor’s office. But a latest review reveals a Toronto cosmetic surgeon may be filming his patients though revelation them We detected a confidence cameras during a news on a selling practices compared with breast augmentation, when we beheld them on a roof of a closed-door conference room during a Toronto Cosmetic Surgery Institute, owned by Dr. Martin Jugenburg. Watch: Plastic surgeon competence be filming though patients’ consent Dude, where’s my truck? More thieves are eyeing your vehicle, generally if we expostulate a Ford F350. The lorry is Canada’s...

READ MORE In a arise of a immature mom and her baby’s genocide in a bear mauling in Yukon final month, people have been sounding off online about a “plague” of grizzly bears in a domain — but biologists contend that’s not true. Valérie Théorêt and her 10-month-old daughter Adele were pounded and killed by a grizzly bear in late Nov during their remote trapping cabin during Einarson Lake nearby a N.W.T. border. The story of their deaths captivated general attention, creation headlines around a world. Théorêt’s partner and Adele’s father, Gjermund Roesholt, found their bodies after he shot a bear. The animal charged him as he returned from a day checking his​ trapline. Popular TV sport uncover horde Jim Shockey runs an outfitting stay nearby Einarson​ Lake and he recently posted his greeting to a conflict on amicable media. “We are confronting a grizzly bear disease in British ...

READ MORE New York City military were endangered about Pete Davidson after he wrote “I don’t wish to be on this earth anymore” on Instagram. Police visited a Saturday Night Live  star to make certain he was OK. A military spokesperson declined to contend where officers met Davidson, who is Ariana Grande’s ex-fiancé, on Saturday. But his Instagram posting was deleted and NBC did not cancel a live show. On a show, Davidson introduced a opening of John Lennon’s strain Happy Christmas (War is Over)  by low-pitched guest Miley Cyrus, Mark Ronson and Sean Ono Lennon. What dumbfounded Davidson’s fans and authorities was a tinge of a entertainer’s post: “I’m doing my best to stay here for we though we indeed don’t know how most longer we can last. All I’ve ever attempted to do was assistance people. Just remember we told we so.” He combined a heart emoji. Social media erupted with difference of adore fo...

READ MORE The US Department of  State said on Saturday it has ordered non-emergency government staff and family members of government employees to leave the  Democratic Republic of the Congo a week before a presidential election that it fears could turn violent. Campaigning for the long-delayed December 23 poll to choose President Joseph Kabila’s successor had been mostly peaceful until this week, when security forces opened fire to disperse opposition gatherings, killing at least four people . A fire in the capital Kinshasa also destroyed thousands of voting machines and ballot boxes early on Thursday morning; Kabila’s ruling coalition and opposition candidates traded blame for the incident. The State Department also said in an email advisory to citizens that it had “limited ability to provide emergency services” to US citizens located outside Kinshasa, especially in the east and the central Kasai provinces. The US embassy in Kinshasa closed for a we...

READ MORE Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said that many European countries are ignoring the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi . Commenting on the case at the Doha Forum on Sunday, Cavusoglu alleged that while Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was “determined” for the investigation to reach a conclusion, European leaders were turning a blind eye. “President Erdogan has been so determined from the beginning to go to the end of this case, and to reach the outcome of the investigation,” he said. “Many European countries, who are promoting freedom of media, freedom of expression, are closing their eyes.” He also said that CIA director Gina Haspel had visited Ankara and that it is now up to the United Staes  and the European Union  to take further action. “They have also listened to the voice records … now it is up to them. I am sure they have more information. “They have all the intelligence,...

READ MORE Bernard Darty, cofondateur et ancien PDG de l’enseigne Darty, rachetée en 2016 par la Fnac, est décédé samedi à l’âge de 84 ans aux États-Unis, a-t-on appris auprès du groupe dimanche. “La société Fnac Darty a appris avec tristesse la disparition de Monsieur Bernard Darty, le 15 décembre 2018 à Miami” en Floride (sud-est), a annoncé la société à l’AFP. Bernard Darty était le fondateur, à la fin des années 1950, de l’enseigne d’électroménager avec ses deux frères Natan et Marcel, tous deux décédés. Enrique Martinez, le directeur-général de Fnac Darty, a salué “la carrière d’un homme exceptionnel qui, aux côtés de ses frères Marcel et Natan, ont révolutionné le commerce par leur vision innovante du service et leur obsession de la satisfaction du client....

READ MORE Le président de l’Assemblée nationale Richard Ferrand (LREM) a invité dimanche le mouvement des “gilets jaunes” à “aller aux élections” parce qu’il faut “être à fond dans la démocratie, pas seulement dans la contestation”. “Puisque chaque jour on nous dit +voilà les nouvelles propositions+, eh bien, qu’ils s’organisent, qu’ils fassent une plateforme de propositions et qu’ils aillent aux élections”, a déclaré M. Ferrand dans l’émission “Dimanche en Politique” sur France 3. Interrogé sur une éventuelle liste des “gilets jaunes” aux européennes en mai 2019, il a déclaré: “par exemple puisque c’est la prochaine échéance”. Est-ce que ça ferait baisser le score du Rassemblement national de Marine Le Pen? “Ecoutez ça je n’en sais rien...

READ MORE Why this Nordic couple don’t go ‘home’ for Christmas Icelanders Thorunn and Sindri live in Sweden but won’t be flying back to their home country for Christmas. Find out where the adventurous couple will be heading instead! Article source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/microsoft-ice-azure-cloud-critics-child-separation-1.4712876?cmp=rss Best Wordpress Plugin development company in India       Best Web development company in India

READ MORE French classical plays, both the comedies and the tragedies, have five acts. Was “Act 5” of the gilets jaune movement on Saturday the muddled conclusion of a French tragedy or the bitter-sweet finale of a French comedy?  Most likely it was the beginning of a confusing new phase – a  phase of splits. There will be negotiations by some gilets jaunes and continuing but diminishing protests by others. According to the government, 66,000 people demonstrated across France on Saturday. This was half the number of the week before and less than one quarter of the support for “Act 1” of mass gilets jaunes protests on 17 November. Mercifully, there was no repeat of the widespread violence in Paris of the two previous Saturdays. But there was considerable violence in Bordeaux, Toulouse, Nantes, Saint Etienne and other cities. An armed group of gilets jaunes fired  shots outside the home of a Macron-supporting parliamentarian in upper Norman...

READ MORE US President Donald Trump told his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan that Washington is working on extraditing a US-based Muslim preacher accused of orchestrating a failed Turkish coup in 2016, Turkey’s foreign minister has said. “In Argentina, Trump told Erdogan they were working on extraditing (Fethullah) Gulen and other people,” Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Sunday, referring to the G20 summit where the leaders met two weeks ago. Turkey has long sought the extradition of Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed US exile for nearly two decades. A former ally of Erdogan, he is blamed by Turkish authorities for the failed coup when rogue soldiers commandeered tanks and helicopters, attacked parliament and shot unarmed civilians. Gulen denies any involvement in the failed coup. Trump said last month he was not considering extraditing the preacher as part of efforts to ease Turkish pressure on Saudi Arabia over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashog...