By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies NEW YORK, 19 June 2023 (IDN) — As Ukraine prepared to launch its much heralded but long delayed counteroffensive, the media published a photograph of a Ukrainian soldier with his finger on his lips, symbolizing the need for secrecy to retain some element of surprise for this […]
India’s Vibrant New Relationship with US—Political, Economic & Military
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, 18 June 2023 (IDN) — When India, the world’s largest democracy, was on the verge of taking a dictatorial path in the mid-1970s, the United States expressed its usual anxieties—and held out its usual threats. Back in June 1975, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had not only declared emergency rule, suspended […]
A Pakistani University Employs Artificial Intelligence to Boost Agriculture
By J Nastranis NEW YORK | KARACHI, Pakistan, 18 June 2023 (IDN) — A member institution of the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) in Pakistan, the Iqra University, appears to have spared the South Asian country of an impending food crisis, predicted within two years.
‘The US & EU Need a New Roadmap to Solve Serbia-Kosovo Conflict’
By Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK, 17 June 2023 (IDN) — It is naïve to assume that given the current geopolitical conditions in the Balkans and the psychological dimension of the conflict between Kosovo and Serbia that a resolution to their conflict can be found unless the EU and the US develop a clearly articulated cost-and-benefit […]
Nations Pledge to Improve Refugee and Migrant Health
By Bernhard Schell RABAT, Morocco, 16 June 2023 (IDN | WHO) — One in eight people worldwide is either a migrant or is forcibly displaced by factors including conflict, persecution, environmental degradation, or the lack of human security and opportunity. With this in view, United Nations member states and several UN agencies have adopted a […]
Is Pres. Biden’s Son Undermining US-Bangladesh Relations?
By Muzaffar Ahmad Noori Bajwa* NEW DELHI, 1 June 2023 (IDN) — In an unsettling turn of events, recent revelations have brought to light the involvement of Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden, and Nobel Peace Laureate Professor Mohammad Yunus in actions that have raised profound concerns over the delicate fabric of US-Bangladesh […]
Mobilizing Guyana’s Diaspora Beyond Remittances
By P.I. Gomes The writer is Former Secretary-General of the Organisation of African, Caribbean & Pacific States (OACPS). GEORGETOWN, 23 May 2023 (IDN) — In the north-east coast of South America, the small and newest petro-state sits the Cooperative Republic of Guyana. With a population of almost 800,000 persons, the former British colony was granted […]
India: PM Modi’s BJP Ousted in Key Karnataka State Elections
By Devinder Kumar NEW DELHI, 17 May 2023 (IDN) — The opposition Indian National Congress (INC), which appeared to have sunk into oblivion, scored a decisive victory in the southern state of Karnataka over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the legislative assembly elections on 10 May. Karnataka is the […]
US Offers Another $1.2 Billion in Arms to Ukraine
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS,12 May 2023 (IDN) — The United States, which has maintained uninterrupted supplies of arms to Ukraine, announced on May 9 the delivery of another package amounting to a hefty $1.2 billion. The new package provided under a Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) is aimed at bolstering Ukraine’s air defenses and […]
A New Message Rings Out at Royal Coronation: “Not My King!”
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK, 8 May 2023 (IDN) — Along streets packed with Londoners, visitors from around the world, and members of the royal class, the coronation of Charles and Camilla was a sumptuous display of pageantry, trumpet fanfare, and gun salutes. A glittering gold stagecoach built in 1760 was on […]