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	Will the GCC crisis be resolved in 2018? Aljazeera.com This year, efforts to resolve the most serious crisis to date within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have failed, and it will be carried into 2018. What will happen next year is difficult to predict because, as we witnessed in 2017, a lot of the key developments did not follow the standard rules of ... Flag as irrelevant
	$180bn investment in plastic factories feeds global packaging binge The Guardian The global plastic binge which is already causing widespread damage to oceans, habitats and food chains, is set to increase dramatically over the next 10 years after multibillion dollar investments in a new generation of plastics plants in the US. Fossil fuel companies are among those who have ... Flag as irrelevant
	The best of the Long Read in 2017 The Guardian Every year, it seems like the world gets even worse and the Guardian publishes a hundred long reads about it. But this is only an illusion. In fact, we publish 150 long reads each year – there are three every single week! – and most of them are not about the failures of globalisation or the ecological ... Flag as irrelevant
	Unemployment in Japan hits 24-year low Financial Times Unemployment in Japan has fallen to its lowest level for 24 years as robust economic growth leads to a deepening shortage of labour. The unemployment rate dropped by 0.1 percentage points in November to 2.7 per cent, the lowest figure since December 1994 when Japan was descending into what ... Flag as irrelevant
	Christmas brings Northeast blizzard, bitter cold in Midwest CNBC New England was expected to get up to 8 inches of snow. Strong winds were predicted for Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island with gusts up to 65 mph. States from Montana and the Dakotas to Wisconsin expected wind chill temperatures in places at 40 below zero (40 below Celsius), the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Running out of sand: in numbers Aljazeera.com The UN believes that sand and gravel, or aggregates, account for up to 85 percent of all mining activity around the world, measured in weight. "It's almost become like air, the air we breathe, we don't think too much about it, but you can't live without it," says Kiran Pereira, the founder of SandStories.org, in ... Flag as irrelevant

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