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LAST CHRISTMAS I GAVE YOU MY HEART 

IT´S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS

                                         

THE CHRISTMAS SONG 

                                          

SO THIS IS CHRISTMAS 

                                              

LAST CHRISTMAS 

                                               

THE BEST ENGLISH SONG EVER

BEYONCE- LISTEN 

NATASHA BEDINGFIELD- UNWRITTEN

VOICE OF AMERICA

Religious and Ethnic Hatred Seen as 

Biggest Threat.

Nuclear weapons. AIDS. Environmental destruction.American researchers say what you fear depends a loton where you live. But this year, researchers found thatpeople everywhere believe religious and ethnic hatredis increasingly becoming the world’s most seriousthreat. 

Jacob Poushter works for the Pew Research Center inWashington, DC. He was involved in the Center’s study, which was released in October. He saidresearchers asked people in 44 countries to choosewhich of five dangers is the top threat to the world. 

“We found that Middle Easterners tended to identifyreligious and ethnic hatred as the top global threat,while Europeans and to some extent Americans saidthat inequality was the top danger.”

MORE INFORMATION:http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/religious-ethnic-hatred-world-threat/2503725.html

NEW YORK TIMES

 Images That Dare You to Turn Away.

 To hell and back describes the psychological journey of the great Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado in the magnificent documentary “The Salt of the Earth.” Directed by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Mr. Salgado’s son, the film is a crowning moment in DOC NYC, the nonfiction film festival starting on Thursday. Some of Mr. Salgado’s black-and-white photos are grisly, Boschian tableaus of the world’s horrors with the formal beauty and grand composition of paintings by the Renaissance masters.

With its hard-to-reconcile juxtapositions of the beautiful and the grotesque,“The Salt of the Earth” embodies the contradictions of the documentary form itself. In a sense, the entire festival is a journey to hell and back, in which honesty and truthfulness are often in conflict with painful images on which people would rather not dwell. Who really wants to see photos of corpses piled in a church in Rwanda? But once confronted with such images, who would dare look away?

MORE INFORMATION:http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/12/movies/the-doc-nyc-film-festival-returns.html?ref=arts

BBC.COM

Energy security threatened by rising tensions, says IEA report.

    

The International Energy Agency's latest World Energy Outlook says the increased market turmoil comes as global energy demand is set to soar.

The US shale boom provided "breathing space" but "little reassurance", the report said.

The Paris-based IEA advises developed nations on energy policy and strategy.

The report estimates that energy demand will rise by 37% by 2040. While there are adequate global resources available, it will require political action and significant investment to meet the demand, the IEA said.

However, one major concern is that growing conflicts could limit supply, notably in the Middle East and especially Iraq, as well as in Ukraine.

MORE INFORMATION:http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30021824

COLOMBIA REPORTS

FARC victims form federation to defend interests during peace talks

Victims of Colombia rebel group FARC have formed a national federation around 33 crucial points they hope will be heard in ongoing peace talks, as well as in the international community.

Roughly 1,500 FARC victims released a joint statement Thursday outlining fundamental demands and concerns related to the peace process, which was released to the press at a Bogota event called “Let’s take Havana.”

This consensus was the outcome of a national forum for FARC victims on October 28, held by Senator Sofia Gaviria (Liberal Party), whose brother was killed by the FARC.

“We want all of society to see the 33 points, which are based on the four principles of the peace talks: justice, truth, reparation, and non-repetition,” Senator Gaviria told the press on Thursday.

MORE INFORMATION:  http://colombiareports.co/farc-victims-form-national-federation/

READING

READING

DEFINITION READING:

• The act of reading something.
• The activity of reading a book, magazine, etc.
• A book, article, etc., that is being read or that is intended to be read

EXAMPLES OF READING:

• The family attended the reading of her will.
• The speech ended with a reading from his latest novel.
• After several readings, I finally understood the meaning of the poem.
• He needs help in reading.
• The teacher gave us a list of books for further reading on the subject.

    

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Colombia becomes Latin America’s best country for doing business.

Colombia is the best country in Latin America for doing business, the World Bank said Wednesday in its annual Doing Business report.                                                                                 Globally, Colombia ranked 34 on a list of 198 economies, nine places higher than last year’s ranking. The country outperformed Latin American American countries Chile and Peru that least year ranked higher.

MORE: Colombia 3rd best country for doing business in Latin America: World Bank

The World Bank praised the country’s improvements in legislation to regulates taxes, credit and property registration. Particularly a 2013 law that allowed companies to use other property than real estate as collateral for loans was one of the reasons the country rose in the ranking, claimed Finance Minister Mauricio Cardenas.

“Companies can now use machinery, equipment, inventory or labor capital as guarantee for credit and do not only depend on real estate property,” said the minister in a press release celebrating the World Bank’s recognition.

The world’s leading economies for doing business are Singapore, New Zealand and Hong Kong.

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