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<p><em>A message commemorate<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> the 100th anniversary of the start of WWI with the focus on how to avoid such tragedies in the future</span></em></p> <p><strong>Sarajevo, June 24</strong> (Xinhua) -- Sarajevo wants to send a message of peace and hope to the whole world on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I, Sarajevo mayor Ivo Komsic said Tuesday.</p> <p><strong>In an interview with Xinhua</strong>, Komsic said the city will establish a new and more positive image.
<p><em>4 months in Italy, Greece or Portugal, focus on Med cooperation</em></p> <p>Brussels - <strong>Last days for the EU-funded project 'Capacity Building Relay Race'</strong> (CaBuReRa) call to young palestinians willing to have an experience abroad after studies.</p> <p><strong>CaBuReRa will offer 5 Palestinian youth workers</strong> (aged between 25 and 35) the opportunity to develop their professional skills during a 4-month period in Italy, Greece or Portugal in a comprehensive training in project cycle management and on issues related to Mediterranean cooperation.</p>
<p><em>The 23rd Ordinary Session of the Summit of the African Union – held June 20-27 – wrapped up in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea on Friday, June 27, with a number of advances announced.</em></p> <p><strong>Organized under the theme:</strong> “2014 Year of Agriculture and Food Security”, the African leaders attending the Summit <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">of the African Union, </span>were unanimous on the strategies needed to promote the continent’s agricultural development, a sector which, accounts for one third of Africa’s GDP and employs about 60 percent of the labor force. <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The 23rd Ordinary Session of the Summit of the African Union – held June 20-27 – wrapped up in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea on Friday, June 27, with a number of advances announced.
<p><em>A Report published on Wednesday 18 June in London</em> <em>has calculated it's <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">mainly due to global increases in terrorist activity, the number of conflicts fought and the number of refugees and displaced people.</span></em></p> <p><strong>The GPI, <strong>founded by Mr. Steve Killelea </strong></strong>who is Executive Chairman and Founder, Institute for Economics and Peace launched its 2014 Report on Wednesday 18 June in London, is the world’s leading benchmark for measuring the peacefulness of nations - measures peace according to 22 qualitative and quantitative indicators identifying the most and least peaceful countries, tracks trends in violence and conflict, and calculates the economic impact of violence.</p> <p><strong>The Report found that world global average peace</strong> score deteriorated slightly since last year, mainly due to global increases in terrorist activity, the number of conflicts fought and the number of refugees and displaced people.
<p><em>US is the only member of Nato not to have signed an international treaty banning the use of anti-personnel landmines</em></p> <p><strong>The US announced today</strong> it would stop producing and buying anti-personnel landmines, the controversial weapons banned by all other Western nations.</p> <p><strong>The move is a major step</strong> towards allowing the US to finally join an international treaty, championed by Princess Diana, which bans the use of the small explosives.
<p><em><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Is the ninth month in the Islamic calendar. It's<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> begun Sunday june 29, and Muslims around the world begin fasting for a month from sunrise until sunset.</span></span></em></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><strong>In this photo a Muslim woman reads a copy</strong> of the Koran at the Istiqlal mosque during the second day of ramadan in Jakarta, Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, on September 2, 2008. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><strong>Ramadan, the ninth month in the Islamic calendar,</strong> has begun Sunday june 29, and Muslims around the world begin fasting for a month from sunrise until sunset.</p>
<p><em>Tweet and video message from pope Francis for the start of the World Championship of Football in Brazil: «Fair play» and respect for opponent</em></p> <p><strong>«</strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><strong>I wish you all a wonderful World Cup, played in a spirit of true brotherhood»</strong>. That is what Pope Francis wrote in a tweet launched on the occasion of the inauguration ceremony of the World Cup in Brazil. The “tweet” is added to a video message (...) in which the Pope hopes that the World Cup «will be take place in complete serenity and tranquility, always with mutual respect, solidarity and fraternity among men and women who acknowledge that they are members of one family». The Pope hopes that «in addition to a sports celebration» the World Cup in Brazil will become a «festival of solidarity between nations»</span></span></p>
<p><em>Girl sends letter asking her father's boss to give him time off for his birthday (and it worked)</em></p> <p><strong>A Google employee is getting a week off work</strong> to spend with his young daughter thanks to an adorable note she wrote to his boss. Katie begged the internet giant to give her father just one day off to celebrate his birthday.<br /><strong>'Dear google worker,'</strong> the handwritten note reads. 'Can you please make sure when daddy goes to work, he gets one day off. Like he can get get a day off on wednesday. Because daddy ONLY gets a day off on saturday.'</p> <p><strong>The little girl’s plea didn’t end there.</strong>'P.S. It is daddy’s BIRTHDAY!' she wrote in blue crayon. 'P.P.S. It is summer, you know.'
Economy & Work
Thirty-five years ago a dream was born: the Economy of Communion. In late May Argentina will host an extraordinary celebration where people of all ages will come together to breathe new life into this project and write the future for a different kind of economy.
Lorna Gold, Executive Director of Laudato Si’ Movement, reflects on ten years of the encyclical, analysing how integral ecology is an essential path to global unity and tackling the climate crisis.
Operation Mato Grosso is working on over 100 missions across Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia, all rooted in education, hard work, and solidarity. Jacopo Manara, who has been a volunteer for years, tells us their story.
An interview on communication with Michele Zanzucchi, journalist and writer, former director of Città Nuova, professor of communication at Sophia University Institute and at the Pontifical Gregorian University, and author of around forty books.
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