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The Grand Tour's "Sand Job," Nothing to See Here, I'm Afraid

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Sand Job” takes the presenters to the remote and little-viewed country of Mauritania, located in the northeast corner of Africa southwest of Algeria. Renamed Dakar, from 2009 to 2019 the race ran in South America. The trio pull out a tired trope from previous Africa and Vietnam experiences: build a car raft as a boat/ferry!

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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s International Organization for Migration (IOM) reports 225,455 arrivals in 2014, and by 2019, numbers were below 125,000. Mali was a conflict zone, so he moved on to Algeria, but he lacked a work permit, and employers would underpay him or fail to pay him altogether. But that was an unusual year. million people.

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Europe/US team: transitioning to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers

Green Car Congress

Nigeria or Algeria cannot do the same for their oil industry. G20 countries build a generous Green Climate Fund, well above the $100-billion-a-year goal in the Paris climate agreement. China is keen to improve air and water quality and build ‘national champions’ in industry. —Goldthau et al. Big green deal. ?This

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