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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56436132

In the middle east

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The article, Kobe Bryant widow sues LA police over 'graphic images' of the helicopter crash is interesting because Vanessa Bryant (Kobe's wife) is suing the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department for negligence and invasion of privacy. For example, in the article, it say's "She alleges that one of the officers shared with bartender photos of Kobe Bryant's body and the others distributed "gratuitous photos of the dead children, parents, and coaches". What makes it interesting that she is suing them for putting out photos of Kobe's body.

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Mrs Bryant has also sued the estate of the pilot, Mr Zobayan, and the companies that owned and operated the helicopter for alleged negligence and wrongful death. Families of the other victims sued the helicopter companies, but not Mr Zobayan's estate.

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Kobe Bryant widow sues LA police over 'graphic images' of helicopter crash

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Mrs Bryant has also sued the estate of the pilot, Mr Zobayan, and the companies that owned and operated the helicopter for alleged negligence and wrongful death. Families of the other victims sued the helicopter companies, but not Mr Zobayan's estate.

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The main idea of this text is that Brazil is not doing so well with corona. some evidence I have to support this is, "Covid-19 units in all but two of Brazil's 27 states are at or above 80% capacity, according to Fiocruz." and "The warning came as the country registered its highest daily death toll yet with 2,841 dying within 24 hours." Both of these quotes show Brazil isn't doing too well with 27 states having 80% of people having Covid and  2,841 dying within 24 hours.

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Health officials in Brazil's most populous state, São Paulo, which on Tuesday also registered a record daily death toll, have called on the new health minister to consider imposing a national lockdown.

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Brazil health service in 'worst crisis in its history'

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Health officials in Brazil's most populous state, São Paulo, which on Tuesday also registered a record daily death toll, have called on the new health minister to consider imposing a national lockdown.

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Vanessa Bryant is suing the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department for negligence and invasion of privacy.Vanessa Bryant is suing the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department for negligence and invasion of privacy. She says they took graphic pictures of the nine people who died in the crash close to Calabasas, California, in January last year. She claims the pictures, including those of her 13-year-old daughter Gianna, were taken and shared "for no reason other than morbid gossip".The fatal crash prompted a global outpouring of support for the NBA star and his family as well as a number of lawsuits.

Mrs Bryant has also sued the estate of the pilot, Mr Zobayan, and the companies that owned and operated the helicopter for alleged negligence and wrongful death. Families of the other victims sued the helicopter companies, but not Mr Zobayan's estate.

California now has a state law prohibiting first responders from taking unauthorised pictures of people who died at the scene of an accident or crime.

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I know this guy he is the one who made the poem like "what are you able to build with your blocks, and the chocolate boy story. He is thanking the doctors for hiding him because they were some doctors killing people with covid to remove them and be able get new people. They were keeping him alive in the janitor room where he was able to recover and survive.

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Michael Rosen's emotional thank you to ICU nurse

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The author, who spent weeks in intensive care after contracting Covid-19, on his gratitude for the NHS.

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This article is interesting because president of Tanzania made speculations about the covid vaccines and the deaths. After the video of him saying this was published she mysterously disappeared and was found dead a few weeks later.

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Twenty-six Algerians returning home from the UK have been stuck in transit at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris for the past three weeks.

This article is interesting because this shows that Covid is dangerous and can affect many Americans and many generations. The reason they were trapped in the airport for an amount of time is because it was a Covid measure that some people had Covid or had it or been associated with Covid.

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"Everyone has important personal reasons to go to Algeria. My wife is there and has had Covid. I gave up my flat and job. Otherwise we'd go back to the UK," said the man, who wished to remain anonymous.

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Paris airport: Algerian passengers from UK stranded for weeks

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"Everyone has important personal reasons to go to Algeria. My wife is there and has had Covid. I gave up my flat and job. Otherwise we'd go back to the UK," said the man, who wished to remain anonymous.

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In this article, this is about: "A four-year-old boy with autism was removed from a flight in the US after the airline refused to recognise his disability and insisted he should wear a face mask, his mother said."

The article, in the US & Canada, is interesting because it shows that people look at people from the outside, not even coming to thinking about the words they say and how they can affect others. In the article, it says "He is obsessed with airplanes. So he was sitting in his seat, quietly and looking out the window, and this lady was like, 'Get off!'," she said." Therefore, this is interesting because this brings in the climax by showing us the intense part of this article.

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Airline removes boy, 4, with autism for not wearing Covid mask

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The US airline removed the boy, 4, from a flight because he wasn't wearing a face mask.

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The article "Iceland shaken by more than 50,000 earthquakes in three weeks" is interesting because in the article it states:

"Iceland has recorded more than 50,000 earthquakes in the past three weeks.

This unusual activity indicates a volcanic eruption is on its way.

Scientists are baffled over when it will happen and Icelanders are learning to live with the shakes."

It's just very odd for this to happen, and we should be notified that it is possible because we never know with natural disasters, they could happen anywhere at anytime.

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Iceland has recorded more than 50,000 earthquakes in the past three weeks.

This unusual activity indicates a volcanic eruption is on its way.

Scientists are baffled over when it will happen and Icelanders are learning to live with the shakes.

BBC Europe correspondent Jean Mackenzie visited the area.

Video produced by Kate Vandy. Filmed and edited by Xavier Vanpevenaege.

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Iceland shaken by 50,000 earthquakes in three weeks

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Iceland has recorded more than 50,000 earthquakes in the past three weeks. This unusual activity indicates a volcanic eruption is on its way. Scientists are baffled over when it will happen and Icelanders are learning to live with the shakes. BBC Europe correspondent Jean Mackenzie visited the area.

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12 Countries Have Built Roads Out of Plastic – And They Can Perform As Well or Better Than Asphalt is they are using plastic for the roads is going to help the environment and make the communities better is an inspiring story. In the article, the evidence that inspires my claim is "A growing number of studies say that roads containing waste plastic have the potential to perform as well or better than traditional roads." Another quote that inspires my claim is "Research suggests that “using waste plastic in road construction helps to improve substantially the stability, strength, fatigue life, and other desirable properties of bituminous mixes, leading to improved longevity and pavement performance." What makes the evidence I chose inspiring because it shows how over the studies plastics as roads has been better than traditional roads and that using plastics for the roads improves that they last longer, are stronger and more durable in respect to loads and rutting, can tolerate wide temperature swings, and are more resistant to water damage, cracking, and potholes.

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A road running through Accra, Ghana's capital, looks like any other blacktop. Yet what most drivers don't realize is that the asphalt under them contains a slurry of used plastics-shredded and melted bags, bottles, and snack wraps-that otherwise were destined for a landfill.

The impetus for many similar road projects underway in Ghana was an ambitious plan announced by President Akufo-Addo in 2018. It calls for Ghanaians to strive for a circular model, to recycle and reuse as much plastic waste as they produce each year-roughly 1.1 million tons-by 2030.

Barely 5 percent of the 5,000 tons of plastic that Ghanaians discard each day makes it to recycling facilities. The rest winds up in landfills, illegal dumps, streets, and waterways, or is burned in open pits, poisoning the air.

In a developing nation, "it's difficult to recycle plastic," noted Heather Troutman, program manager of the Ghana National Plastic Action Partnership. "It's expensive, complicated, technical, and much easier just to burn it. But if you could put value on recycled plastic," by turning it into fishing nets, fuel, or paving material, "it won't get buried; it won't get burned; it won't make it to the ocean."

First appearing in India two decades ago, plastic roads are being tested and built in more and more countries as the world's plastic pollution problem becomes more acutely felt. India has installed over 60,000 miles of these roads. The technology, meanwhile, is gaining ground in Britain, Europe, and Asia. Several countries-South Africa, Vietnam, Mexico, the Philippines, and the United States, among them-have built their first plastic roads only recently.

A growing number of studies say that roads containing waste plastic have the potential to perform as well or better than traditional roads. They can last longer, are stronger and more durable in respect to loads and rutting, can tolerate wide temperature swings, and are more resistant to water damage, cracking, and potholes.

The technology also has the potential to reclaim anywhere from a small to a sizeable amount of plastics from landfills and random dumping, researchers are finding, while providing a significant amount for road paving and repair. In a small nation like Ghana, where only 23 percent of roads are presently paved, waste plastic could go a long way.

"We have to be realistic at some point in how we try to remediate the vast problem of plastic pollution," Doug Woodring, the founder of Ocean Recovery Alliance, said in an email. "I believe plastic roads, if done to scale, in combination with other uses for reclaimed plastic, like concrete and fuel, will offer an opportunity to absorb hundreds of thousands of tons, almost overnight."

The technology of incorporating waste plastic into paving materials is likely to take a long time to evolve. While widely in use in India, it is still in its nascent stages in other countries. However, given that only 9 percent of the 350 million tons of plastic that humans produce each year is recycled, advocates see the technology as one of many strategies that can help humans quit the habit of blindly sending waste downstream and adopt the practices essential for a circular economy: reduce, reuse, recycle.

"The beauty of roads is that there are lots and lots of them," said Greg White, a paving engineer at Australia's University of the Sunshine Coast. Four companies have so far constructed hundreds of miles of plastic roads in Australia, "primarily smaller local roads," he noted. "That's mainly because the local councils are far more willing to try things that are viewed as sustainable, as opposed to government departments that oversee big highways." Added White, who has studied products from the Scottish company MacRebur, a leading manufacturer of plastic paving materials, "For those properties we can test, there's absolutely no doubt that if you put the right plastic in the asphalt, you can improve the properties of the surface."

What's missing, he and others caution, are data on how well plastic roads age and endure over time, since in most countries the technology has been in use for less than seven years.

While different companies are pursuing different approaches, the general idea is that waste plastic is melted and mixed with other ingredients for making road asphalt. Ordinarily, asphalt is composed of 90 to 95 percent aggregate-whether gravel, sand, or limestone-and 5 to 10 percent bitumen, the black gooey substance extracted from crude oil that binds the aggregate together. When contractors add waste plastics-which can serve as an even stronger binding agent than bitumen-they often replace just 4 to 10 percent of the bitumen, though some methods call for much more. Plastic roads, therefore, are not solid ribbons of plastic-far from it.

Research suggests that "using waste plastic in road construction helps to improve substantially the stability, strength, fatigue life, and other desirable properties of bituminous mixes, leading to improved longevity and pavement performance," Michael Burrow, an engineer at the University of Birmingham and senior author of a global study of the technology, said in an email. "Albeit, it may be too early for many of the reported applications to show premature failure."

According to Toby McCartney, cofounder and CEO of MacRebur, using waste plastics in road paving can absorb a significant volume of discarded plastic. "Of the waste plastics that are a problem for municipalities, we could use about 40 percent of it, if we got every road containing waste plastic," said McCartney. "At the moment, we're lobbying to try to get waste plastics included within the standards. Until that happens, it's on a smaller scale than we would like it to be." According to the company's website, every ton of MacRebur mix contains the equivalent of 80,000 plastic bottles; every kilometer of road paved with its product contains the weight of nearly 750,000 plastic bags.

MacRebur's plastic material is crumbed down to the size of rice grains, bagged, and sold to construction and asphalt companies globally. Since MacRebur's launch in 2016, its materials have gone into hundreds of miles of roads, paths, driveways, and parking lots in Turkey, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere. In the U.S., the company is establishing a presence on both coasts, with a factory planned for Tampa, Florida, and manufacturing agreements in California.

Pursuing a different approach, PlasticRoad in the Netherlands avoids traditional asphalt altogether. In 2018, the company completed a 100-foot pilot project in Zwolle, billed as the world's first recycled plastic bike path. A second one followed in Giethoorn. Cheap to produce and easy to install, these paths are built with hollow modules made of single-use discarded plastics. In Ghana, Nelplast mixes shredded plastic waste with sand and molds the mixture into pavement blocks.

In India, where 50 percent of the country's roads were unpaved only a few years ago, as many as 14,000 miles of new roads have been installed since India's Minister for Road Transport made it mandatory, in 2016, to add waste plastic into bituminous roads. India's plastic road technology grew out of experimentation done in 2001 by R. Vasudevan, a chemistry professor at the Thiagarajar College of Engineering in Madurai.

Recognizing the similarities between plastic and bitumen, both derived from petroleum, he mixed shredded plastic with gravel, then bitumen, and saw a good bonding effect. Vasudevan's method reportedly employs two types of plastic: LDPE, or low-density polyethylene used in plastic bags, and PET, polyethylene terephthalate, used in soda bottles. MacRebur's McCartney recalls being in India in 2016 and noticing people repairing potholes by plugging them with plastic bags and lighting them on fire. It gave him the idea behind MacRebur.

How environmentally friendly are plastic roads? One concern is that heating plastic for making asphalt can create carbon emissions, thus negating any emissions savings from using less bitumen. Vasudevan says that for his own method, it's only necessary to heat plastic to 170 degrees Celsius (338 degrees Fahrenheit), which is well within a safe range. "Plastics, as they're heated, go from solid to liquid to gas, and it's only above 270 degrees C, when they're at their gassiest, that they release gases," explained Troutman, who is also an environmental scientist. McCartney calculates that for every ton of bitumen left out of asphalt, as much as a ton in CO2 emissions is saved, since less petroleum is heated for bitumen's extraction. The processing of petroleum-based asphalt is responsible for sizable greenhouse gas emissions each year.

Another concern about plastic roads is that they will shed microplastics. No one has yet reported that this has occurred, and those interviewed for this article say they don't see microplastics as a problem. "Road material is relatively inert, a solid block of asphalt," noted Troutman. "In fact, the largest source of microplastics on the planet is abrasion of tires."
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Last summer, a pilot project in California drove home just how much rigorous testing has to occur before a road, if paved with a novel material like plastic, is deemed drivable and safe, especially a major highway driven over by big rigs with heavy loads. Highway 162 in Oroville was in the headlines last August when Caltrans, the California Department of Transportation, working with TechniSoil Industrial, which supplied the liquified plastic, paved a 1,000-foot test strip. It was Caltrans' first time using this new approach. "I hate plastic," said Tom Pyle, who heads Caltrans' Office of Asphalt Pavement Program. "I won't even drink out of a plastic bottle-and if there's a way of using waste plastic to make a road last longer, let's do it."
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Their machines went out, ground up the top layer of old road, turned it to gravel, mixed in PET from recycled soda bottles-which has the consistency of "Gorilla Glue," Pyle noted-and lay the mixture back down. No extra gravel or bitumen was used. Later, an engineer checking the job sent word that the new surface "moved" and felt unsafe. Caltrans ended up replacing it with traditional asphalt. "That was our first trial section for plastic," said Pyle. "We didn't want any accident for any reason to taint the goal of building a plastic road."

Far from being deterred, Caltrans likely will install another test section in Oroville next spring. Pyle said that they will use new construction methods and aim for "higher strength." "We don't yet know how thick this material needs to be to carry thousands of trucks a day," he said.

Troutman views plastic roads as "a promising advance," especially in a country like Ghana with a backlog of road projects. And yet, with the looming prospect that by 2050 the world will produce over three times as much plastic waste as it ever has, she stresses the importance of Ghana's curtailing all unnecessary use of new plastics. "That's the first step," she noted. "If we keep pumping out more and more plastic, we'll never be able to manage it in a sustainable way."

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12 Countries Have Built Roads Out of Plastic - And They Can Perform As Well or Better Than Asphalt

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A road running through Accra, Ghana's capital, looks like any other blacktop. Yet what most drivers don't realize is that the asphalt under them contains a slurry of used plastics-shredded and melted bags, bottles, and snack wraps-that otherwise were destined for a landfill.

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"12 Countries Have Built Roads Out of Plastic - And They Can As Well or As Better Than Asphalt" is great for recycling, and a better community.

My evidence to support my claim is "Barely 5 percent of the 5,000 tons of plastic that Ghanaians discard each day makes it to recycling facilities. The rest winds up in landfills, illegal dumps, streets, and waterways, or is burned in open pits, poisoning the air."

Along with "In a developing nation, “it’s difficult to recycle plastic,” noted Heather Troutman, program manager of the Ghana National Plastic Action Partnership. “It’s expensive, complicated, technical, and much easier just to burn it. But if you could put value on recycled plastic,” by turning it into fishing nets, fuel, or paving material, “it won’t get buried; it won’t get burned; it won’t make it to the ocean.”

Overall this is very recycling, and great for the community, because nowadays we have a lot of problems, and or cons with the world, using it is smart, and very natural.

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An intentional community in rural Uganda is drawing on green technology, local resources, and old-school philosophy to create a thriving village.

Okere Mom-Kok was destroyed during the Ugandan Civil War in the 1980s, but is now being rebuilt into a sustainable community that's home to 4,000 people.

Okere City is based around sustainable principles like renewable energy and the sustainable harvesting of natural resources.

The village has a clinic, church, school, a nightclub that doubles as a community center, markets, bars, and a bank. Electricity generated through solar energy is available to everyone, and clean water-thanks to modern borehole methods-keeps the all-too-normal cholera outbreaks in the region at bay.

An expert in international development and graduate of the London School of Economics, Ojok Okello started the project with a $54,000 investment from his own pocket. The village of Okere Mom-Kok was where he had some extended family, and it was during a visit that he decided to put what he learned in university to action.

"I don't want this project to be at the mercy of some white people," Okello told The Guardian, explaining how he had seen many NGO-funded projects on the continent fail by not involving the very communities they were helping.

"I want us to have business conversations with partners. I want us to be responsible for shaping the destiny and the future of the project."

"Shea could be our Vibranium"

While the Okere City project might conjure images of an equitable utopia, there's a lot of business and banking knowledge that Mr. Okello utilized to ensure the community could survive and grow.

All businesses in the town pay for themselves-for example, the school allows pupils to pay up to half their tuition in sugar, beans, firewood, or other commodities, while the clinic has flexible installment-billing policies. An Okere City investment club runs a sort of credit union by taking members' dues and offering them as loans to those in the community who need them-often to develop local resources.
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Once the loans are repaid, the money is loaned out again, a style of banking locals describe as uniquely African.
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However, the defining fiscal characteristic of Okere City is its shea trees.

"I looked at [the shea tree] and realized that we have this important natural resource and we were not harnessing it," Okello told The Guardian. "And I thought about [Marvel Cinema's] Wakanda and Black Panther, they had vibranium, this shea tree could be our vibranium."

"So I am like: 'Damn, I'm going to invest everything within my means to tap this resource, to protect [it], and to use it to emancipate my community."

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Inspired by Marvel's Mythical 'Wakanda', Ugandan Village is Built on Shea Butter and Solar Power

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An intentional community in rural Uganda is drawing on green technology, local resources, and old-school philosophy to create a thriving village. Okere Mom-Kok was destroyed during the Ugandan Civil War in the 1980s, but is now being rebuilt into a sustainable community that's home to 4,000 people.