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Argentina: Misiones bans the use of glyphosate as of 2025

Rafael Pereyra Pigerl, deputy of the Frente Renovador misionero was one of the authors, last year, of the opinion that was approved this Thursday, June 22, banning the use of glyphosate and its derivatives in agricultural exploitation. The head of…

Humanism in the Cordoba elections: The small great joys that history is made of

Sunday 25th June saw the completion of a new phase of a series of voting days in which, for reasons of electoral speculation, the election of executive and legislative positions at the provincial and local level in the province of…

Marking the 36th anniversary of the chemical weapon attack on Sardasht, Iran

The Sardasht chemical attack is one of the most devastating uses of chemical weapons in the Middle East. On June 28, 1987, the Iraqi Air Force conducted an aerial bombardment on the town of Sardasht, located in northwest Iran. The…

National elections in Greece: Conservatism and the far rightwin

In the second and final national election contest in Greece, the conservative and far-right forces have triumphed. The left suffered a crushing defeat, while abstention exceeded 47%. Only the conservative left, expressed by the KKE, emerged stronger, while MeRA25 was…

Neofascists start hate speech against the LGBTQ+ community in Crete

“We will put an end to this brothel”, say two candidates of the neo-fascist – not only in name but also in practice – Spartans party that recently entered the Greek Parliament. They were parliamentary candidates in Rethymnon and Chania.…

Release Dr Deen Mohammad Baloch

Dr. Deen Mohammad Baloch was forcibly abducted by the Pakistani military from Ornach Khuzdar on 28 June 2009, and his whereabouts are still unknown. His daughters, Sammi Deen and Mehlab Deen, have been struggling for their father for 14 years.…

Interview: Who is Lu Evans? Another Voice from Vozes Intergácticas

Last year I submitted my short story, “The Japanese Rice Cooker” to the Brazilian anthology Fator Morus edited by Lu Evans. Since then, I have witnessed Lu’s relentless efforts to publish speculative writers from around the world. She does everything…

Ancient Mayan city found in Mexico’s Campeche region

Mexican archaeologists have discovered the ancient Mayan city of “Ocomtún” in the Balamkú ecological reserve in Campeche, in the southeast of the country. In a statement issued on Tuesday, Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) reported the discovery…

Optical illusion in art

How many times have we not spilled out into a kind of hypnotism when looking at a painting or any other object that creates an optical illusion? That’s what happened to a mother and daughter when they were enjoying a…

Primary elections in Argentina: We are not united by love but by horror

This phrase by the conservative philosopher and poet Jorge Luis Borges seems to have guided Peronism’s decisions around a unity list. A list that will include Sergio Massa as presidential pre-candidate, accompanied on the ticket by Agustín “el Chivo” Rossi,…

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