Boris Johnson has become Prime Minister during a critical time in the UK’s history. He has promised to deliver Brexit by October 31st, and has less than three months to achieve this deadline. With Parliament in recess, there is inadequate...
Now that Boris Johnson is officially the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, his focus turns from talking about how to steer the UK out of its Brexit dilemma to actually fulfilling those promises. Carrying out his ideas will...
When child brides grow and turn into women, their lives are already marked, as is their gaze, harsh and knowing. According to a report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, there are currently over 650 million women...
“The people who bet against Britain are going to lose their shirts” – a warning shot from Boris Johnson, Britain’s new top man, on the steps of Downing Street. Or was the obscure idiom totally innocent? It’s hard to tell...
Theresa May’s premiership resulted in three wasted years for this country. Not just because she failed to deliver Brexit, but because she expanded the size of government to an unprecedented level. The tax burden under this Conservative government has been...
Pyramiden, the Ghost Town of the Arctic. Until 1998 inhabited by Russian miners, it is now an abandoned place where only a few tourists arrive, they stay a few hours to visit the "model" city of the former Soviet Union and then they leave. Currently there are 11 people living here: they are guardians of the settlement as well as guides for those coming to visit Pyramiden
In the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world, survival lays in the knowledge of ice and climate. In fact, in the blink of an eye, the ice could melt, or a storm could break out. In the photos, a guide tests the ice before showing around tourists, a house during a storm, the merchant ship that transports coal from Mine 7 to the mainland, and a view of Mine number 7.
Among the people living on the Svalbard islands in the Artic Ocean, the most Northern part of Norway, as well as the northernmost inhabited land on Earth, are miners, firemen, philosophers who do plumbing to make ends meet, and Evelina, the store manager of a weapons-for-hire store.
July 20, 1974: A large-scale Turkish military invasion in the northern part of Cyprus changes the picture of the island for once and for all. Only a small area has been initially occupied by the Turkish forces; a few weeks...
When Ursula von der Leyen was nominated for the role of European Commission president, she was pitched as a compromise candidate. Someone the various factions could get behind to end their unseemly squabbling. French leader Emmanuel Macron, a champion of...