Zimbabwe’s Mnangagwa says no going back to dollarisation
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa vowed on Friday not to revert to using the U.S. dollar after a new local currency plunged against the greenback since its introduction this year, fuelling inflation and economic hardship.
‘Not my prime minister’, protesters march in London against Johnson
Several hundred noisy protesters marched through central London on Friday to protest against Britain’s election result, chanting “Boris Johnson: Not My Prime Minister” and “Boris, Boris, Boris: Out, Out, Out”.
Fourth indigenous man killed in six weeks in northeastern Brazil
A member of the indigenous Guajajara group has been murdered in the northeastern Maranhão state of Brazil, Brazil’s indigenous affairs agency Funai said on Friday, the fourth such killing in the past six weeks.
‘We are nothing’ without U.N. agency’s help, says Palestinian refugee
George Salameh’s family has lived in the Palestinian city of Bethlehem for 70 years. Still, he prefers his family be called “al-Yafawi”, meaning “of Jaffa”, an ode to the Mediterranean coastal town his family left in 1948 and still considers home.
‘The fight carries on’, anti-Brexit protester says after UK vote
For the last two years, demonstrator Steve Bray has become known for his protests outside Westminster, shouting “Stop Brexit” at British lawmakers inside parliament and disrupting live news reports with his pro-European Union banners.
Talk is just more hot air as emissions keep rising, climate activists warn politicians
Climate activists demanded that governments put science above narrow political interests on Friday as negotiators battled to secure stronger commitments on the last day of a U.N. summit aimed at averting catastrophic global warming.
Australia’s climate stance sparks anger at U.N. summit
Campaigners slammed Australia on the final day of a U.N. climate summit on Friday as its policy of using old carbon credits to count toward future emissions targets emerged as a major sticking point in negotiations.
‘I don’t feel like a role model’: Finland’s new 34-year-old leader
She may be the world’s youngest-serving head of government, but Finland’s newly appointed prime minister does not feel like a role model, 34-year-old Sanna Marin told Reuters on Friday.
Argentina’s new president surprises students for final exams
Argentina’s new President Alberto Fernandez briefly swapped duties on Friday, returning to unfinished business at his former job as a college professor overseeing students’ final exams.
Hezbollah: Agreeing on Lebanon government not easy, must include everyone
Lebanon’s Hezbollah said on Friday that the country’s next government must bring all sides together so that it can tackle the country’s worst economic crisis in decades.
