ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – The reservoir behind Ethiopia’s Great Renaissance Dam is filling up, its water minister said on Wednesday, a day after talks with Sudan and Egypt over the giant Blue Nile hydroelectric project . A satellite image of the brochure shows a close-up view of the Ethiopian Great …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Swedish activist Greta Thunberg said Thursday that the world needed economic reform to have a chance to beat climate change and that countries should be prepared to break old agreements and contracts to meet green goals. The 17-year-old spoke to Reuters TV after she and other activists …
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro observes a ceremony to lower the Brazilian national flag at night, at the Alvorada Palace, in the midst of the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Brasilia, Brazil, on July 15 2020. REUTERS / Ueslei Marcelino SAO PAULO / BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, …
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