By Maja Garsia-Djurdjević (BIRN) – Following the inauguration of the new US President, Donald Trump, I have taken a deep interest in US politics in an effort to try and understand what on earth happened in the US presidential elections.
I love the Obamas. I must admit that I did not follow Barack’s politics regularly. My love [...]
(WEBPUBLICAPRESS) New York - The Munich Security Conference (MSC) published its annual report on Monday, with the conference chairman saying there was greater instability today across the globe than there has been since the Second World War.
With the rise of populism threatening the international order, the report warns of an “illiberal moment” globally. A withdrawal of the US on the world stage [...]
By J Nastranis - NEW YORK - Laszlo Szombatfalvy, a Swedish billionaire of Hungarian origin, is willing to pay US$5 million to anyone who comes up with innovative ideas for revamping the global governance system as currently manifested in the 71-year old United Nations now facing a huge funding challenge from the U.S. with Donald Trump [...]
Analysis by Erol Avdovic – UNITED NATIONS – When one after the other, the British ambassador to the UN Matthew Rycroft and then his US colleague ambassador Samantha Power at the UN Security Council compared the suffering of Aleppo with Srebrenica – for many it has evoked heavy images of Bosnian war between 1992 and [...]
By Sebastian von Einsiedel and Cale Salih* - TOKYO (IDN-INPS) – The election of Donald Trump as the next United States President has created significant unease in the United Nations. As others have already noted, many of the statements Mr Trump has made as a candidate are at odds with the positions of the UN – on issues from human rights, [...]
Barbara Crossette – Ban Ki-moon became the eighth secretary general of the United Nations in January 2007, in a world that was a much quieter place than it would soon become. Unforeseen ahead was the Great Recession, explosive civil protests in the Arab world and the deadly government backlashes that followed. The explosion of refugees from [...]
While the revelations in the “Panama Papers” are being reviewed by several state prosecutors, critics of the leak say that it’s a media storm without much real substance, Radio Deutsche Welle (RDW) reported .
Journalists will name names, goes the critique, but they don’t have evidence that the names behind the shell companies are guilty of [...]
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 [...]
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