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Nusa Dua, Indonesia: After ten years of intermittent discussions on a trilateral alliance, the three countries with the largest rainforests in the world, Brazil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Indonesia have officially announced their cooperation to protect rainforests. During the campaign last October, Mr. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the President of Brazil, said that they would work together with the two other major rainforest nations to form a partnership. This would put pressure on the wealthy industrialized world to help protect forests. Rapid deforestation releases carbon dioxide, which warms the earth and endangers efforts to stabilize the…

Australia: The tennis player Mr. Novak Djokovic will be given a visa by the Australian government, enabling him to compete in the 2023 Australian Open. Mr. Djokovic will receive a visa from Immigration Minister Mr. Andrew Giles, ending a three-year ban that came along with the previous administration’s decision to revoke his visa on the eve of the 2022 Open. Earlier in the year, the Coalition government rejected Mr. Djokovic’s visa on the grounds that a recent diagnosis of COVID-19 did not support an exception to the country’s requirement that visitors must be immunised. Earlier in the year, the Coalition…

US: E-commerce giant Amazon is expected to terminate approximately 10,000 employees in corporate and technical jobs early this week. The layoffs will primarily affect Amazon’s devices section, which includes the voice assistant Alexa, as well as its retail sector and human resources. As each company completes its planning, the number of layoffs is still a moving target and is probably going to happen team by the team rather than all at once, according to one source. But if it maintains at approximately 10,000, it would represent roughly 3 per cent of Amazon’s corporate staff and less than 1 per cent…

Cocos (Keeling) Island, West Australia: Scientists have recently returned from surveying gigantic underwater mountains in the Indian Ocean. They saw many deep-sea critters that were adorned with blinking lights, had velvety black skin, and had jaws full of sharp, crystalline fangs. The team of biologists conducted research in the waters surrounding the Australian territory of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, which are situated more than 600 miles off the coast of Sumatra. Dr. Tim O’Hara of the Museum Victoria Research Institute (MVRI), the expedition’s lead scientist remarked that “It’s just a whole blank canvas.” The Indian Ocean is rarely visited by…

Ukraine: The Russian withdrawal was hailed as the “beginning of the end of the war” by Ukrainian President Mr. Volodymyr Zelensky during his triumphant visit to the recently liberated city of Kherson. However, the Ukrainian President also acknowledged the high-cost Ukrainian soldiers are incurring in their valiant efforts to repel the invading force. Ukraine’s victory at Kherson was one of its biggest in nearly nine months after Moscow’s invasion. The victory dealt the Kremlin (Russian Citadels) yet another painful blow and might serve as a launchpad for subsequent incursions into the seized territory. Nevertheless, a large fraction of eastern and…

London, UK: The British government has reached a deal with France to promote cooperation over refugees and migrants who are using small boats to cross the channel. The United Kingdom has agreed to pay France £8 million more a year in the revised deal. The money will be used for increased surveillance of French shores and UK police officers will be allowed to observe patrol within France. The UK Prime Minister Mr. Rishi Sunak announced that he was confident that the crossings could be brought down. The Prime Minister also warned that there was nothing that could fix the situation…

Ljubljana, Slovenia: Ms. Natasa Pirc Musar, a liberal rights activist, won a runoff election to become Slovenia’s first female President. The newly elected President has pledged to work to heal the country’s severe left-right divide and lead its 2 million citizens. According to electoral commission data based on 99 percent of the votes counted, Ms. Pirc Musar won 53.86 percent of the vote in the runoff while her opponent, right-wing politician and former Foreign Minister Mr. Andze Logar, received 46.14 percent. https://twitter.com/nmusar/status/1591882938186366976 After declaring victory, the liberal rights advocate remarked that “My first task will be to open a dialogue…

Washington, US: The eminent American music star Ms. Dolly Parton has been awarded a $100 million prize by Mr. Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder. The widely celebrated singer accepted The Bezos Award for Courage and Civility recently. Mr. Jeff Bezos presented the award to Ms. Parton in the presence of his partner, Ms. Lauren Sanchez. Ms. Sanchez referred to the renowned music star as “a woman who gives with her heart and leads with love and compassion in every aspect of her work”. “We can’t wait to see all the good that you’re going to do with this $100 million…

Australia: According to Deutsche Bank, Australia is likely to face a recession in 2023. To make this forecast, the bank did not adhere to the generally accepted concept of “technical recession.” Traditional definitions of a recession include two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth (GDP). Deutsche Bank instead focused on the direction it thinks the unemployment rate will go. As the economy sputters, it anticipates a rise in Australia’s unemployment rate the following year. “We expect Australia’s unemployment rate to end 2023 at 4.5 per cent, that is, one percentage point higher than the current unemployment rate at 3.5 per…

Hong Kong: After the Chinese national anthem was substituted during a match in South Korea with a song from the city’s protest movement, the Hong Kong authorities have sharply criticized a rugby sevens competition. Authorities stated that they strongly deplore and oppose the scenario where the Chinese national anthem was replaced by a song connected to “violent protests” and the pro-independence movement in 2019. Although the song’s title was not released, an online video from the match showed that it was Glory to Hong Kong, a song that gained popularity during the 2019 protest movement. Glory to Hong Kong was…