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The European Council, the Commission and the Parliament have agreed on the main points of the new EU Pay Transparency Directive. The directive aims to end the pay gap between women and men. In the future, companies with more than 100 employees will have to publish...

January 13, 2023, marked 51 years of bilateral ties between Myanmar and Bangladesh. Myanmar recognized Bangladesh as a sovereign state on January 13, 1972. There were many ups and downs between the two neighbors over these 51 years. Why was this? Because the relations...

For helping refugees, they are on trial in Greece: a highly controversial trial of 24 sea rescuers begins in Lesbos on Tuesday (January 10, 2023). Amnesty International calls on the Greek authorities to drop the charges. By Moritz Ettlinger “If I can be criminalized...

Millions of Ukrainians have fled the country since Russia’s invasion in February 2022. The longer the war continues, the less likely they are to return, with dire consequences for Ukraine. By John P. Ruehl Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine has created...

Outgoing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro fled the county just before his term of office ended on January 1, apparently fearing legal prosecution for multiple wrong-doings once he lost presidential immunity. By Roger D. Harris Bolsonaro had long predicted that if he...

People are protesting Rightist government moves ousting President Pedro Castillo. By Countercurrents Collective Tweeting from jail on Tuesday, Castillo said history will remember Peruvians “murdered for defending the country from the coup dictatorship,” and that...

The appointment for EMERGENCY and Ogilvy’s video greeting is renewed, now in its sixth edition. This year’s theme is the need to begin to imagine the abolition of war, a goal made even more urgent by the outbreak in 2022 of the conflict in Ukraine, but above all the...

Around this time in January 2001, the idea of enabling the collaborative edition of the encyclopedia that would end up being created under the name of Wikipedia a few days later was launched. The immediate predecessor of Wikipedia was Nupedia, founded by Jimmy Wales,...

There are places where the interweaving of times and spaces makes understanding difficult. Phenomena emerge from different tectonic layers of existence, mutating into apparitions that dissuade the simple, linear and superficial narrative. To penetrate this complex...

Under the auspices of the African Union, a preparatory meeting for a possible national reconciliation conference in Libya took place in Tripoli this January 8. The conclave, of a technical nature, laid the groundwork for an agreement to bring the actors at the same...