... communication and the new international order (published by Sage in 1997), a broad-ranging analysis of the international context of world communication, in which an international group of leading scholars ...
... Press Service Deutschland GmbH, which provides a selection of news, features and backgrounders in German.
The GLOBAL COOPERATION COUNCIL has also launched websites as part of a media project sponsored ...
Eric Walberg, About Eric Walberg
Eric Walberg is a Canadian journalist specializing in the Middle East, Central Asia and Russia. A graduate of University of Toronto and Cambridge in economics, he has ...
... – years with unusually dry seasons – destroyed vast areas of old cloud forest. These are characteristically moist forests in high altitude areas which create unique environments. The forest was replaced ...
... to the WTO for a dispute settlement, as the dispute settlement body itself has been made virtually defunct by the United States.
The battle over 5G and Huawei has become the ground on which the U.S.-China ...
... required to secure enough common ground to move forward on collective projects.
Real communities are also shot through by political and other differences (which are much more enduring and deeply rooted ...
... way – together. Global solidarity will save lives, protect people and help defeat this vicious virus”, added Mr. Guterres.
Meanwhile, a new COVID-19 diagnostic test, which can provide reliable results ...
... a growing commitment to sectarian interests which have, in many parts of the nation, superseded commitment to the republic itself.
This sheds a different light on the events. While the spark that ignited ...
By Yossef Ben-Meir, President, High Atlas Foundation
MARRAKECH (IDN) – On World Religion Day, January 17, the High Atlas Foundation (HAF) celebrates its interfaith fruit tree nurseries, which are built ...
... in which racism is increasingly acceptable.
Johnson’s attacks on the rule of law have been so damaging that the credit rating agency Moody’s downgraded the UK’s national credit status on the basis of ...
Compiled by EEPA
BRUSSELS (IDN) – Asena TV shows images of four to six explosions outside the municipality offices in the centre of Addis Ababa, which were followed with a few shots.
New Eritrean troops ...
... But COMESA states producing and exporting similar commodities have tried to protect their domestic industries, which has led to low trade between members.
Other barriers, which include years of dithering ...
... to push forward initiatives, actions, fights and global political campaigns.
On the last day, January 31, 'the Agora of Futures', an activity in which social movements and organizations from around the ...
... called for constitutional amendment to broaden land ownership which, because of South Africa’s apartheid history, put millions of blacks at a severe disadvantage.
That was all. If there was any killing ...
... which became an independent country. My family left Asmara for Addis Ababa where we lived in a refugee camp for the next ten years. The new government was not in any hurry to help the families of soldiers ...
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Even the Pope has launched an appeal for distributing a free vaccine in the poor countries, and India and South Africa (which are members of the G20) have asked to the General Assembly of the World Health ...
Viewpoint by Roberto Savio*
ROME (IDN | OtherNews) – For 2021, Italy has been given chairmanship of the Group of 20, which brings together the world’s 20 most important countries. On paper, they represent ...
... can become a party to global treaties for which the Secretary-General of the United Nations is the depositary. The 197 states include all 193 UN member states, the two UN observer states (the Holy See ...
... There were the terrible “Clearances” which began in the middle of the eighteenth century and which allowed loyalist landlords to expel their peasant inhabitants in favour of sheep. This move left more ...
... August 6 and 9 of the previous year and the political impact of the bombings was still very strong. The United States was the only country possessing atomic capabilities at the time, which remained the ...
By Kwame Buist
NEW YORK (IDN) – The process of recovery from the coronavirus pandemic offers the chance to change course and put humanity on a path which is not in conflict with nature, UN Secretary-General ...
... members of the prominent Kouninefa family. In that case, four family members received long jail sentences – from 12 to 20 years – for illegal profiteering and breach of contract by which they amassed enormous ...
... for impeachment”.
I reliably understand that Article I “Incitement of Insurrection” refers not only to the attack on the Capitol but also to his prior phone call on January 2, 2021, in which Trump urged ...
... the very systems upon which we rely for survival.
The Covid-19 pandemic, which almost certainly sprang to humans from animals, took very little time to expose and exploit overlapping inequalities, ...
... seen of the Persian gazelle which so enriches the beauty of its home province of Zanjan in Iran.
Zanjan is also home to the university that hosts its name, the UNAI SDG hub for Goal 15, geared to the ...
... by helicopter to capture Maduro. This plot failed as the Maduro government got prior knowledge of it.
Last month, the Maduro government won a resounding victory in the National Assembly elections which ...
... open debate on January 6. The debate was organized by Mr Kais Saied, the Security Council's Presidency for the month of January.
He called for a Global Ceasefire, which he said, goes hand-in-hand with ...
... which hosts 25,000 refugees from Eritrea. The camp has still not been reached by humanitarian organisations and refugees and communities have been without food supplies for over two months.
The ENDF ...
... unquestionably sovereign nations. China’s territorial claims are naturally controversial internationally but are modest compared to those sought by other powers—not least the U.S. itself, which early in ...
... of Chicago. The following are excerpts from the article, which was originally published at Palladiummag on December 29, 2020. [IDN-InDepthNews – 07 January 2021]
Photo: Secretary of State John Kerry ...
... It is the latest statement by an Ethiopian Federal official which confirms the presence of Eritrean troops in Tigray.
General Belay is blaming the TPLF for starting the conflict and stopping the ENDF ...
... deep divisions among the nuclear-weapon states (NWS), and between them and the non-nuclear-weapon states (NNWS), which are deeply disappointed with the lack of progress towards nuclear disarmament despite ...
... activity of nature; with every rood of land brought into cultivation, which is capable of growing food for human beings; every flowery waste or natural pasture plowed up, all quadrupeds or birds which ...
... symbionts), which results in the coral bleaching. Bleaching can be reversed when sea temperatures cool. What happened between 2014 and 2017 was that the sea temperatures did not drop enough for the corals ...
... the UNESCO site Negash Mosque, Africa's oldest mosque, which was severely damaged in December as a result of shelling.
A list has been published on-line, claiming to contain the names of civilian victims ...
... at other mines across South Africa, events which collectively made 2012 the most protest-filled year in the country since the end of apartheid.
Tribute was also paid by the National Education, Health, ...
... which was assembled in a meeting in Planet hotel in Mekelle.
These are some of the highlights of the January 3 EEPA report on the situation in the Horn of Africa. EEPA, Europe External Programme with ...
... around the world come from India, which means one out of every three vaccines.
The cost of production and clinical trials is the lowest in the world in India.
As the world's pharmacy, India would seek ...
... Minister of Foreign Affairs accused Sudan of sending troops into Ethiopia, which is denied by Sudan. Negotiations between the countries broke down last week.
These are the highlights of the January 2 ...
... the music industry more than $10 billion in lost sponsorships. The global publishing market could shrink by 7.5 per cent.
"The sector, which accounts for 30 million jobs, is struggling to survive and ...
... in September 2020, which were not recognised by Addis Ababa. National elections had been postponed due to the COVID-situation.
Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) won a new mandate, it claims, through ...
... it through a dark period in history, but there are brighter days ahead in 2021, as we begin the roll out of vaccines for all, which will be fundamental to our collective efforts, to safeguard humanity." ...
... hostilities.
Until December 1, no supplies had been allowed into the conflict zone, which has displaced thousands, many across the border into Sudan.
UN humanitarian coordination office (OCHA) spokesperson ...
... Capital Territory, which is responsible for collecting the results from laboratories and notifying patients of their status, doesn’t bother sending out results anymore.
“The department has virtually ...
... heavy bombardment and killed 21 youth, including a 7 year old child.
The economist has published an article which argues that there is mounting evidence of an Eritrean presence in Ethiopia. This “makes ...
... on WHO’s Covid19-Technology Access Pool or the C-TAP initiative, which encourages the voluntary contribution of IP, technology and data to support the global sharing and scale-up of the manufacturing of ...
... who, when a young Harvard professor, wrote that nuclear weapons could be used. His somersault towards being against any possession of nuclear weapons, which other top ex-foreign policy officials have emulated, ...
By J Nastranis
NEW YORK (IDN) – 2020 will be remembered as a year in which a contagious virus shut down the world, widened the gulf between the rich and the poor, triggered a spike in poverty for the ...
... zone; and Girma Meni, member.
Three of the officials were arrested in connection with the massacre in Bekuji Kebele, Bulen Woreda, Metekel zone in which more than 200 civilians were killed. The regional ...
... the Kofi Annan Foundation's Extremely Together initiative, which mobilizes political will to overcome threats to peace, development and human rights. For two years, she was the youngest consultant for the ...
... 60 civilians were killed by Ethiopian National Defense Forces and Eritrean forces while hiding in a church in a small village called Tashi (ጣሺ), which is approximately 60 km from Mekelle.
It is reported ...
... positive change and transformation.”
This reference to positive change and transformation which brings me to the subject of my lecture “The Culture of Peace: For a Safer, Saner and Substantial World”. ...
... to ALAIN Amharic news which reports that senior military officials have been in closed meetings with the senior officials in the zone.
Some officials in the Benishangul Gumuz Region have been arrested ...