By Thalif Deen — UNITED NATIONS – (IPS) - The sharp decline in oil prices in the world market -– the lowest in nearly 13 years –- is expected to have a devastating impact on both developed and developing nations.
As the price of oil hit a new low of less than $30 per barrel last week [...]
By Claire Bigg (RFE) – Marko and Kata Pranjic returned to their village in Bosnia-Herzegovina two decades ago, hoping to put the horrors of war behind them after a Western-brokered peace deal ended the conflict that tore their country apart.
But 20 years after the Dayton Accords were hammered out on an air base in the U.S. [...]
By Svetlana Alexievich — I’ve been searching for a genre that would be most adequate to my vision of the world to convey how my ear hears and my eyes see life.I tried this and that and finally I chose a genre where human voices speak for themselves. Real people speak in my books about [...]
By Thalif Deen | UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - The visit to the United Nations by Pope Francis during a General Assembly session, described as a historic first in the ageing 70-year-old organisation, has created a security nightmare both for the world body and New York city police.
The U.N. neighbourhood is expected to be turned into a war zone [...]
By Adama Dieng – It is with much humility that today we pay tribute to all those who, twenty years ago, were victims of the most heinous of all crimes, the crime of genocide. Today we are meeting to pay our respects to all those who lost their lives. They believed that they were safe [...]
By Haris Hromic - Remembering and documenting Srebrenica Genocide is a lifelong process. It is a generational process. This institution in the past two weeks including today’s event and with scheduled event tomorrow is making its contribution to this important process.
Social science will instruct us that it take about three decades, before society is ready to [...]
(WEBPUBLICAPRESS) – SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina – Pope Francis visited Sarajevo on Saturday, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is a place where some 20 years ago a bitter conflict in a war torn Bosnia was a daily bloody reality; more then 11.000 citizens of Sarajevo died, including 1600 children during 44 months of [...]
(WEBPUBLICAPRESS) — It looked like it was the last think that he would do, but after a lot of pressure Sepp Blatter on Tuesday announced he will step down as FIFA president. In the meantime, major US media The New York Times and ABC News, citing sources familiar with the FIFA corruption case (read here more), [...]
By John J. Metzler – UNITED NATIONS — The targeted killings of journalists, the suffocating censorship in many countries, and the widening governmental controls on media activities, characterize the contemporary media landscape in large parts of the world. Add the ghastly shock effect of beheadings of journalists in the Middle East by Islamic State or the barbaric attacks in [...]
By David L. Phillips – There is no nuclear deal with Iran — and it is unlikely an agreement will be reached by the June 30 deadline. The sides haven’t even started to negotiate a text clearly spelling out their respective responsibilities.
The framework established at recent talks (CNBS source) in Lausanne, Switzerland, between Iran and the U.S., France, Britain and Germany, is [...]
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