Tag: special-envoy
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U.N. envoy calls for Syria ceasefire to avoid ‘next Aleppo’
A cessation of hostilities across Syria is vital to avoid another deadly battle like the one in Aleppo and get the peace process back on track, the United Nations Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura said on Thursday. At least 35,000 people, both civilians and fighters, have been evacuated from east Aleppo in a week-long operation,…
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Sweden needs more immigrants to counter ageing population: employment agency
By Johan Ahlander STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden needs more immigrants not fewer to sustain its cradle-to-grave welfare system and care for an ageing population, a senior official at the state employment service told Reuters in an interview. In 2015, a record 163,000 people sought asylum in Sweden, the highest per capita in Europe, part of…
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Exclusive: U.N. may delay Syria talks, says U.S., Russia must guarantee truce
By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – The United States and Russia must make Syria's cessation of hostilities work or else it may become necessary to delay the resumption of peace talks, U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura told Reuters on Tuesday. Without progress on the cessation of hostilities and on access for humanitarian aid, de…
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Exclusive: U.N. may delay Syria talks, says U.S., Russia must guarantee truce
By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – The United States and Russia must make Syria's cessation of hostilities work or else it may become necessary to delay the resumption of peace talks, U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura told Reuters on Tuesday. Without progress on the cessation of hostilities and on access for humanitarian aid, de…
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Giving Your All Without Giving Up – -The Toughest Part of Being a Cancer Survivor
I recently had the opportunity to connect with a friend from high school who like me, is a cancer survivor. We met for a bite to eat and to talk about where life had taken us over the past eight years. When we got around to chatting about the “C” word we both agreed that…
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In slump, oil firms turn to labs, data centers for help
In a basement lab of a North Dakota research center, Beth Kurz and an assistant are peering through a scanning electron microscope, studying samples from the state’s vast Bakken shale oil formation. Kurz, a hydrogeologist, is part of a team, which looks at using carbon dioxide to coax more oil out of wells that have…