Water scarcity is one of the biggest problems of the twenty-first century, caused by climate change, global population rises and people relocating to cities en masse. Historically, civilisations with access to fresh water survived; those without perished. Water is physiologically...
On Oct. 29, the US House of Representative voted in favour of a resolution to recognise the murder of up to 1.5 million Armenians by the Turkish government as a genocide. Senator Robert Menendez, who has co-authored resolutions to recognise...
Germany’s Foreign Minister Maas and his colleagues from Paris and London as well as EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini stated they were ‘extremely concerned’ about Iran’s repeated violations of the nuclear agreement. The EU would now consider ‘mechanisms’ in...
As Trump’s retreat from Syria was fueling the mankind’s next potential act of ethnic cleansing and Germany bringing closure to a near century-long hunt for justice with, what could be, the final Holocaust trial, the pursuit of justice for another,...
South Sudan risks witnessing the reignition of a civil war after the main opposition party opposed a Nov. 12 deadline by which day a coalition government should be formed, calling instead for a six-month delay for this crucial step towards...
Parties in the eight-year-long Syrian civil war have been meeting face to face for the first time to discuss constitutional reforms which will help repair the highly polarised nation. A total of 150 delegates, among them members of the civil...
Alaa Salah shot to online fame earlier this year when clips of her dressed in flowing white robes went viral on social media and made her an immediate icon of the revolution against strongman President Omar al-Bashir. This week, the...
Ordinary Iranians are struggling to access medicine, find jobs and are facing a worsening human rights situation in part thanks to the reimposition of biting sanctions by the United States on Tehran last year, a United Nations official said this...
The repercussions of Turkey’s invasion of Syria in pursuit of Kurd militias will be felt far and wide. It will lead to a serious humanitarian crisis as many civilians flee to other countries in the Middle East, and even make...
The United Nations (UN)’s financial crisis does not surprise anyone given that in early 2019, the organization’s Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that UN member countries owed almost $2 billion in peacekeeping budget (with the US accounting for a third of...
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