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BNP enforces ‘one family, one candidate’ rule for women’s seats

by Asif Showkat Kallol (Dhaka Bureau) Bangladesh’s ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has decided to enforce a ‘one family, one candidate’ policy in the allocation of women’s reserved seats in the country’s 13th parliament, a move party leaders say is aimed…

Contaminated Water – Causing Deaths: Whose Failure?

Hardly any quarter of time goes by without news of death caused by contaminated water getting the highlight in the media, but who cares? Even after eight decades of India’s independence, why are our own rulers failing to provide sufficient…

Peacewalkers keep going in the north of Spain

“Today, we leave Ponferrada behind and begin our ascent into the silence of the mountains. The road to El Acebo is steep, but the air is clear. With every step upward, we rise above the noise of the world. The…

Unlimited Love: Humanist inner development project in kenyan prisons

As part of the activities carried out by the thematic roundtables on Internal development, Education, and Gender based violence within the framework of the World Humanist Forum, humanist activists launched a program on Valentine’s Day in the Kenyan maximum-security prison…

Interview with Sharon Dolev on Iran, Israel, and the Rising Risk of War

Following his first interview with Emad Kiyaei, on the Iran–U.S. negotiations in Geneva, David continues the conversation with Sharon Dolev, co-director of the Middle East Treaty Organization, to examine the situation from inside Israel and assess the growing risk of…

The rearmament the world most urgently needs is not military or nuclear, but moral

On Saturday, February 14, Pedro Sánchez delivered the following speech at the Munich Security Conference: “Thank you very much. Good morning. I’ve come to Munich to meet with friends and allies, to listen to experts, and to show Spain’s commitment…

Sudan under drones: when a medical communiqué reveals the anatomy of a permitted war

In just two weeks, Médecins Sans Frontières reported that 167 people were treated for severe injuries caused by drone attacks in civilian areas of Sudan. Penetrating chest wounds, fractured skulls, amputations of children. What the medical report describes in clinical…

China: reconverting taxi drivers in the era of the robotaxi

China has not waited for robotaxis to massively displace drivers before asking what to do with them. The expansion of autonomous driving in cities such as Wuhan, Shenzhen, or Beijing is not presented as an isolated experiment, but as an…

When Code Replaces Conscience

by Irshad Ahmad Mughal & Dr. Qurat al Ain Rana In the last century, millions perished in the fires of the First and Second World Wars. Europe, proud of its philosophy and its progress, burned the world in the name…

Iranian people should have the right to choose their living conditions

President Donald Trump warned on Friday that limited strikes against Iran are possible even as the country’s top diplomat said Tehran expects to have a proposed deal ready in the next few days following nuclear talks with the United States.…

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