Today's World News
To Start off India
Govt asks banks to pitch in to make India open defecation free.
NEW DELHI: Noting that close to 50 per cent of rural population does not have access to toilet, the Centre today asked banks and micro-finance institutions to enhance their credit disbursal for sanitation to achieve the goal of Swachh Bharat Mission of making India free from open defecation by 2019. Source
Turkish forces shell Syrian air base captured by Kurds.
BEIRUT (Reuters) Turkish forces on Saturday shelled a Syrian air base and a village captured by Kurdish fighters from insurgents in recent days in northern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. Source
Addicts can be sentenced to treatment - Norway’s conservative minority government, with support from most all other parties in Parliament, is making it possible for courts to sentence drug-addicted convicts to treatment programs instead of to jail. The treatment option will go into effect immediately.
It's billed as an alternative sentence for drug addicts convicted of crimes tied to their addiction.
"We're rolling out the program that has been tested since 2006, in which addicts have been sentenced to treatment with concrete follow-up," Anundsen said on Friday.
Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reported that as part of the program, convicts will enter individually tailored drug rehabilation, combining both health care and educational or vocational aspects.
Hedda Giertsen, a professor of criminology at the University of Oslo, said the program is a good one, but the addicts who become repeat offenders could have been offered the program without going through the courts. Source
Syria Civil War: Turkey confirms military strikes against Assad regime troops - The Turkish government are opposed to the Assad regime.
Turkish troops responded to mortar fire from Syrian government troops on a police station in Calibogazi, Hatay province, this afternoon, reported the state run Turkish Anadolu Agency. Source
North American countries sign first-ever climate accord.
"This memorandum takes the important strides we've made in recent years towards a continental approach to energy and expands our relationship in support of an even more ambitious clean-energy environmental agreement," Canadian Natural Resources Minister Jim Car said from Winnipeg, where Carr, along with is American and Mexican counterparts had gathered and reached the historic agreement.
The agreement will pave the way for the three countries to pursue environmentally friendly measures, including low-carbon electricity, reduced oil and gas emissions and clean technologies.
The hope is that the agreement will eventually produce a continent-wide agreement in which all three countries work together on clean energy and alternatives that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Source
There you have it our Top 5 News of the day.
That's all for today, Thank you.
To Start off India
Govt asks banks to pitch in to make India open defecation free.
NEW DELHI: Noting that close to 50 per cent of rural population does not have access to toilet, the Centre today asked banks and micro-finance institutions to enhance their credit disbursal for sanitation to achieve the goal of Swachh Bharat Mission of making India free from open defecation by 2019. Source
Turkish forces shell Syrian air base captured by Kurds.
BEIRUT (Reuters) Turkish forces on Saturday shelled a Syrian air base and a village captured by Kurdish fighters from insurgents in recent days in northern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. Source
Addicts can be sentenced to treatment - Norway’s conservative minority government, with support from most all other parties in Parliament, is making it possible for courts to sentence drug-addicted convicts to treatment programs instead of to jail. The treatment option will go into effect immediately.
It's billed as an alternative sentence for drug addicts convicted of crimes tied to their addiction.
"We're rolling out the program that has been tested since 2006, in which addicts have been sentenced to treatment with concrete follow-up," Anundsen said on Friday.
Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reported that as part of the program, convicts will enter individually tailored drug rehabilation, combining both health care and educational or vocational aspects.
Hedda Giertsen, a professor of criminology at the University of Oslo, said the program is a good one, but the addicts who become repeat offenders could have been offered the program without going through the courts. Source
Syria Civil War: Turkey confirms military strikes against Assad regime troops - The Turkish government are opposed to the Assad regime.
Turkish troops responded to mortar fire from Syrian government troops on a police station in Calibogazi, Hatay province, this afternoon, reported the state run Turkish Anadolu Agency. Source
North American countries sign first-ever climate accord.
"This memorandum takes the important strides we've made in recent years towards a continental approach to energy and expands our relationship in support of an even more ambitious clean-energy environmental agreement," Canadian Natural Resources Minister Jim Car said from Winnipeg, where Carr, along with is American and Mexican counterparts had gathered and reached the historic agreement.
The agreement will pave the way for the three countries to pursue environmentally friendly measures, including low-carbon electricity, reduced oil and gas emissions and clean technologies.
The hope is that the agreement will eventually produce a continent-wide agreement in which all three countries work together on clean energy and alternatives that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Source
There you have it our Top 5 News of the day.
That's all for today, Thank you.
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