Sentences with phrase «on island nations»

Explores environmental justice issues related to climate change and sea level rise's effects on island nations, and the resulting predicament of climate refugees.

In an essay published in local media, Fidel Castro celebrated his 89th birthday Thursday by arguing that the United States owes Cuba «many millions of dollars» because of the trade embargo Congress imposed on the island nation back in 1963, according to a report in L'Agence France - Presse

With the news that the death toll in Haiti has topped 200,000, the U.N. has asked former U.S. President Bill Clinton to oversee aid and reconstruction on the island nation...

Which translates into — I was born on an island nation, Singapore, and we grew up feasting on seafood, and every type of fish, from the tiny ikan bilis to large garoupa fish.

Beloved on that island nation, the breed is named for the city of Akita, which is the capital of the Prefecture of Akita situated in the north of the main island of Honshu.

President of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) Steve Golding will talk about the Association's efforts to assist and uplift the predominantly black population on the island nation.

Before your first night's sleep on this island nation, you'll easily see why there is so much more to Azores holidays than meets the eye.

Since President Obama lifted many of the travel restrictions to Cuba for U.S. citizens, exhibitions focusing on the island nation have appeared in museums and galleries throughout New England.

As many of volcanologists and volcanophiles waited to see how this eruption that started over a month ago would progress, we all discussed the potential for local effects like volcanically - generated floods in Iceland or the effect of ash on crops and animals on the island nation.

Again, that is tide gauge on an island nation.

Participants deepened their understanding of climate impacts and positive solutions through a series of creative exhibits — a photo exhibition on climate impacts on the island nation Tuvalu, various talk sessions connecting climate change and financial choices, as well as live art and music performances.

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She also reported on the Arab Spring and its impact on the global markets, providing detailed coverage of the uprising in the island nation of Bahrain.

However, as the League of Nations fell apart in the 1930s and was then replaced by the United Nations, the ruling on the status of Hans Island carries little to no weight.

CNBC's Susan Li reports on whether the election of Donald Trump will change America's policy toward the island nation.

Australia boasts one of world's highest life - expectancy rates, with the island - nation's inhabitants spending more than $ 8 billion a year on health and wellness.

Working with Blue Fountain Media, Long Island Heart Doctors was able to acheive the top organic search result on page one when you type in «heart doctor,» out - ranking everyone from Wikipedia to the nation's top cardiology hospitals.

Luxembourg, a nation smaller than Rhode Island with a long history in mining, has bet 200 million euros — more than $ 225 million — on this industry that does not exist.

Kammas says much has changed in the island nation as it adjusts to post-crisis reality, with banks focusing on domestic business.

On Earth Day, April 22nd, 2017, Elizabeth and Sheila Malcolmson (MP, Nanaimo - Ladysmith) participated in «Protecting Our Islands,» a public meeting and fundraiser to assist with the First Nations court challenge of the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion project.

On September 18, 2017, the worst natural disaster in the history of Dominica ravaged this small island nation.

The groups calling on the province to establish Grand and Goose Island provincial parks are Pine Creek First Nation, Sapotaweyak Cree Nation, the Manitoba chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS), and the Wilderness Committee.

Zhao stated in an interview that the company will soon begin operating a «fiat - to - crypto exchange» on the European Union island nation located in the Mediterranean.

WINNIPEG — Two First Nations and two conservation groups are waiting to hear the fate of eight islands on Lake Winnipegosis.

The Malagasy ariary is the official currency of the large island nation of Madagascar, located on the southeastern coast of Africa.

Plus, you can get residence on this little island nation through a real estate purchase,» says McMahon.

«You could make a safe and stable, annualized return, both in good times and bad, on this little island nation in the sun,» reports McMahon.

MPs of the island nation will soon return to Parliament, and high up on the agenda will be to debate the Companies and Limited Liability Company (Initial Coin Offering) Amendment Act 2018.

They will vote on the bill on Tuesday, and if it passes, Rhode Island will be the nation's tenth state — and the final state in New England — to allow gay marriage...

The ban on «God Cares» is one application of state laws widely opposed by the island nation's Christians and other non-Muslims.

There are also reports from the island of Halmahera in North Maluku of Christian militia training to fight Muslims.Last week Konrad Raiser, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, in Geneva, called on the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, to make an immediate, investigative visit to the Maluku islands.

He died on an island near the coast of China in an effort to gain access to that most populous nation of the world.

WELLINGTON: New Zealand's booming tourism industry is emerging as a cornerstone of an economy hit by declining dairy exports, but the hordes descending on silver screen locations such as Hobbiton are stretching the small island nation's resources.

Yet this island nation is also heavily dependent on food imports, and the combination of steep tariffs and rising world prices could prove difficult for policymakers once the impact is felt by consumers and business owners.

Andrew Zimmern is off to the island nation of the Philippines, where he chows down on local favorites like balut, crickets, stuffed frogs and even live worms!

Rep. John Katko says he will support Trump's plan to impose new restrictions on travel between the United States and Cuba, rolling back efforts to normalize relations with the island nation.

That wretched tradition has continued down through the foundation of Irish Republicanism by those who regarded their own Protestant and «Saxon» nation as the only true one on the Irish island, through anti-monarchist attitudes to Australian Aborigines from the Victorian Period to the present day, through Hendrik Verwoerd and Ian Smith, through attempts to abrogate the Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand, and through the patriation of the Canadian Constitution against the wishes, both of the Aboriginal peoples to whom the Crown had numerous treaty obligations, and of the government of Quebec.

Judge Joan M. Azrack, in addressing a room full of prospective jurors on Monday, let it be known that they'd been selected as representatives of one of the largest federal district court jurisdictions in the nation, covering Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Nassau and Suffolk counties.

Iceland's Prime Minister Geir Haarde warned on Tuesday that his country was facing a risk of «national bankruptcy» as the global banking crisis threatened to overwhelm the island nation.

Senator Carl L. Marcellino said, «The Long Island Railroad is the busiest commuter train system in the nation, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers rely on it every day to get to and from work.

I want YOU to join us in a nation - wide event the weekend of October 21st at the Merrell Institute on Long Island, New York!

Alisha Laventure, a Long Island native working as a news anchor in Dallas, launched into a passionate on - air segment about the president's derogatory remarks toward Haiti and African nations that has been viewed millions of times on Facebook.

President Barrack Obama, on Tuesday while delivering his historic address in Havana, Cuba, called for the island nation to expand Internet access across the country, calling the Internet «one of the greatest engines of growth in human history.»

On Long Island, where property taxes are among the highest in the nation, support for the cap was 77 percent that year.

In spring 2015, an estimated 200,000 students statewide — more than 70,000 of them on Long Island — refused to take state tests in English and math, the largest such boycott in the nation.

Cuomo chose to make his announcement on Long Island, where property taxes are among the highest in the nation.

«To have Staten Island's congressman under federal indictment has been a black mark on this borough and has made it the laughingstock of the nation.

Deacon backs a bill in Congress from Rep. Peter King, R - Long Island, that would ban licensed firearms dealers from selling guns or explosives to any individual on the nation's no - fly list of suspected terrorists.

While hate crimes have increased in New York City and across the nation, police statistics show they declined last year on Long Island.

Long Island notched small population gains from 2014 to 2015 on the strength of growth in Nassau County, while Suffolk County's population dipped — largely the result of people leaving for other parts of the nation.

The summit, jointly organised by the United Nations, the World Bank Group, and the French Government in partnership with non-governmental organisations concerned about reversing the negative effects of climate change, like Bloomberg Philanthropies, holds at the eco-friendly La Seine Musicale, situated on the picturesque Seguin Island in western Paris.