Europe is the fastest-warming continent, and the impacts of climate change are clear. 2024 was the warmest year on record for Europe. By the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Storms were often severe and flooding widespread, claiming at least 335 lives and...
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“Sovereignty is not for sale”: President Sheinbaum rejects Trump’s plan to send US troops to Mexico
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has firmly rejected President Trump’s proposal to send US troops to Mexican territory to fight drug cartels. On Saturday, Sheinbaum gave details about a call she had with Trump last month. President Claudia Sheinbaum said, “In one...
International Forum of Journalists from Russia and Africa in Honor of the 80th Anniversary of the Great Victory and the Defenders of the Fatherland
On April 29, 2025, the III International Forum of Journalists from Russia and Africa took place. This year, the Forum was dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory and the Year of the Defender of the Fatherland. The event was held at the Multimedia Center...
Health Inequities Are Shortening Lives by Decades
A global report published by the World Health Organization (WHO) highlights that the underlying causes of ill health often stem from factors beyond the health sector, such as lack of quality housing, education and job opportunities. The new World report on social...
Recruit more Bangladeshi Women Peacekeepers to Strengthen Our Global Footprint
Recently, Chief Adviser Dr. Muhammad Yunus urged the United Nations (UN) to recruit more women peacekeepers from Bangladesh, reaffirming the country’s unwavering commitment to international peacekeeping and security efforts. He made this request during a meeting with...
Beware of Plastic Swimming Toys and Floaters Containing Hazardous Chemicals
Swimming activities at beaches and pools have become a popular and enjoyable way for kids to cope with the scorching heat. However, toxics watchdog BAN Toxics reminds the public to exercise extra caution when buying and using unnotified Toys and Child Care Articles...
Odessa tragedy: 11 years without justice
2 May 2024. Exactly 11 years ago, a tragedy took place in Odessa that has become a bloody stain in the history not only of Ukraine but of the whole of Europe. In the Trade Union House, a building meant to protect people’s rights, dozens of anti-fascists died in the...
Human Rights Watch Outflanks Trump: Liberal NGO Pushes for Harsher Venezuela Sanctions
It’s been over 100 days since Donald Trump’s return to the presidency. Most NGOs to the right of the Heritage Foundation are alarmed about his confrontational international posture and related erosion of the rule of law. By Roger D. Harris Human Rights Watch (HRW), a...
The immortal Algerian Kabyle singer Idir
Five years have passed since the death of the singer of,”A vava inouva” Idir, whose real name was Hamid Cheriet, born on October 25, 1949 in Ait Yenni, Kabylia, Algeria, and who died on May 2, 2020 at the Bichat hospital in Paris after a long illness, was an Algerian...
PEC Demands Action against Scribe Killers Around the World
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, while revealing that 55 journalists have been killed since 1 January 2025 around the world, demanded due action against the perpetrators. On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, the PEC...
Towards the People’s Peace Summit in Jerusalem, 8-9 May. Women can make the difference!
We are now in the final countdown and here I am on the phone with these three formidable women, among the main organizers of the peace convention titled “The Time Has Come,” which filled the Menorah Stadium in Tel Aviv on July 1, 2024, with the support of fifty...
Bangladesh: ‘humanitarian corridor’ for Myanmar
Political parties from different shades of right, left, centrists, and Islamists are disturbed to hear from the media that Bangladesh has agreed to establish a ‘humanitarian corridor’ for the hungry people of war-torn Rakhine State in Myanmar. The media in the...