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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…

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…

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…

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…

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 left of the Heritage Foundation are alarmed about his confrontational international posture and related erosion of the rule of law. By Roger D. Harris…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

Europe: Lessons from a blackout

On Monday, April 28, a massive blackout engulfed the entirety of peninsular Spain, Portugal, and parts of Southern France. Nothing worked—no cell phones, no trains. I was in the subway station when everything suddenly went dark. My first thought: the…

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