By Borut Grgič *- First it was the U.S., already under the junior President George Bush and well before President Donald Trump, who declared NATO obsolete. Then a few weeks ago, the French president proclaimed it brain dead. Only for the two to meet last week in London for some more muscle flexing. But there is a real cost [...]
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UNITED NATIONS – Appearing before 17 judges of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Aung San Suu Kyi, the de facto civilian leader of Myanmar, became a public apologist for the military government of Myanmar which has long been accused of genocide and forcing over 730,000 Rohingya Muslims to [...]
WEBPUBLICAPRESS (BERLIN) – The Ruhr region in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia was considered “problem region number one,” upending the narrative of an east-west divide. A new study urged the government to do more to eradicate poverty, DW (Deutsche Welle) reported.
Although the poverty rate has fallen across Germany, at least a quarter of 95 [...]
By Thalif Deen - UNITED NATIONS - The successful battle against climate change – which has triggered a rash of natural disasters, including floods, droughts and rising sea levels— will be predicated largely on the availability of financing.
The World Bank last year pledged $200 billion to finance the fight against climate change, between 2021 and 2025.
In [...]
By John J. Metzler - UNITED NATIONS — The stunning silence of the mainstream media which often overlooks ongoing anti-religious violence has become a sad barometer of our secular societies.
Clearly, while most of the attacks are “somewhere else” be it the Middle East, Africa or South Asia, the media template seems preset to default to cover other issues.
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WEBPUBLICAPRESS (London/New York) – The US president called Macron’s “brain dead” NATO remarks “nasty,” saying he could see Paris leaving the alliance. The remarks set the tone for what is expected to be another tense summit among NATO allies, Deutsche Welle (DW) reported from British capital.
US President Donald Trump kicked off a tense two-day NATO summit on [...]
By Thalif Deen - UNITED NATIONS – The greatest single climate-induced threat facing the world’s 44 small island developing states (SIDS) is rising sea waters which could obliterate some of the low-lying states, including Maldives, Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Nauru, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Palau and Micronesia.
The Marshall Islands alone, says the UN, has seen more than a [...]
By John J. Metzler - UNITED NATIONS — Though out of the limelight for nearly a year, North Korea’s quiet and covert push for intercontinental ballistic missile capability along with the communist regime’s continuing political crackdown on its own population has not abated.
While tough American diplomacy has pressured Kim Jong-Un’s regime from firing long-range missiles and testing its [...]
By Todd Prince (RFE) – Washington - The chairman of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s tripartite presidency made a working visit to the Pentagon amid a push by the United States for the Western Balkan country to join NATO. Zeljko Komsic, the Croatian president of the three-member body that collectively serves as head of state, met with James Anderson, who performs [...]
By Thalif Deen - UNITED NATIONS – A longstanding proposal for a regional nuclear-weapons-free zone (NWFZ) in the Middle East – one of the world’s most conflict-ridden regions – has been kicked around the corridors of UN committee rooms since 1974.
And as another effort to negotiate a legally-binding treaty concluded last week, there were lingering questions [...]
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