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Climate activist Greta Thunberg, 16, and three others have been named winners of the 2019 Right Livelihood Award, which is known as the alternative Nobe hoka schuhe l Prize. The Right Livelihood Foundation said in astatementWednesday that Thunberg won the award for inspiring and amplifying political demands for urgent climate action reflecting scientific facts. The award comes with a cash award of 1 million Swedish crowns $103,000 . I m deeply grateful for being one of the recipients of this great honor, Thunberg said in a statement. But of course, whenever I receive an award, it is not me who is the winner. I am part of a global movement of school children, youth and adults of all ages who have adidas samba og decided to act in defense of our living planet. I share this award with them. Thunberg started weekly school protests outside Swedish parliament a year ago before it snowballed into a worldwide movement. The award comes days after she gave a fiery speech dire adidas campus femme cted at world leaders at the United Nations Climate Summit. People are dying and dying ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is the money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth, she said Monday, as she fought back tears. How dare you! The other winners of the award were Brazilian indigenous leader Davi Kopenawa, Chinese women s rights lawyer Guo Jianmei and Western Sahara human rights defender Aminatou Haidar.Thunberg is also among the 301 candidatesnominated for Snah Tunisia: Libya consulate attack suspect arrested
Five Somali men accused of attacking a U.S. Navy ship off Africa s coast were convicted Wednesday on federal piracy charges in what the government said was the first piracy conviction in a U.S. courtroom in n stanley flasche early 200 years.The verdict was handed down by a jury in U.S. District Court. The five men, who wore earphones, stood silently as the verdict was read to them by an inter stanley mugs preter. They fa stanley mug ce mandatory life terms at a sentencing hearing set for March 14 in Norfolk.Attorneys for the five said they didn t fully grasp the trial, the charges or the verdict. He really doesn t understand fully, said Jon N. Babineau, who represented Abdi Mohammed Gurewardher. He does understand he will die in a U.S. prison. He understands that. They were just sad, said David Bouchard, who defended Abdi Wali Dire. Defense lawyers had argued the men were innocent fishermen who had been abducted by pirates and forced to fire their weapons at the ship.But federal prosecutors argued during trial that the five had confessed to attacking the USS Nicholas on April 1 after mistaking it for a merchant ship. The Nicholas, based in Norfolk, was part of an international flotilla fighting piracy in the seas off Somalia.The government said the conviction should send a message to pirates who continue to harass merchant ships off the coast of Africa and take hostages. Certainly we hope the word goes forth that armed attacks on U.S.-flagged vessels are crimes against the international community and will no
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