By Ben Hubbard and Daniel Victor(*) – The New York Times BEIRUT, Lebanon — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with King Salman of Saudi Arabia, the crown prince and other top officials in Riyadh on Tuesday to discuss the disappearance of a prominent Saudi journalist who Turkish…
Introduction On the occasion of the 50th Anniversary since its founding, the Club of Rome will hold a major conference on October 17-18 in Rome. The background was a network of entrepreneurs, diplomats, scientists and economists, established in 1968 in Rome, on the initiative…
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* Brazilian democracy is on the brink of the abyss. The institutional coup that was set in motion with President Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment and led to the unjust imprisonment of former President Lula da Silva is all but complete.
Angela Giuffrida * – The Guardian Mayor of Italian town hailed as a model of migrant integration is under house arrest Italy’s far-right interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has ordered hundreds of refugees to be moved out of Riace, a small town in Calabria celebrated around the…
By Patrick Wintour* – The Guardian World Bank joins CNN and Financial Times in pulling out of kingdom’s showpiece investment event A high-profile investment summit in Riyadh later this month is rapidly becoming a fiasco as prominent businesses and media groups pulled out over…
By Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik* – openDemocracy Published and distributed by Human Wrongs Watch It’s time to join the dots between our overlapping crises of – and shared solutions to – environmental degradation, damaged health, racial oppression and gender injustice. ‘The…
Marianne Lavelle* – InsideClimate News Trump’s second Supreme Court justice has a history of opposing regulations Congress didn’t explicitly authorize. That could be a problem for greenhouse gas policies In his dozen years on the federal appeals court that hears the most…
The Daily Star, Lebanon TUNIS: Tunisia’s parliament has adopted a law criminalizing racist speech, incitement to hatred and discrimination, in a vote hailed as a historic first in a country with a significant black minority. The legislation was approved on Tuesday night after…
Richard Wolffe* – The Guardian Perhaps Trump’s former officials were somehow suckered into salivating over him – but these fantasies are becoming ever distant Nikki Haley wants you to know that she’s not quitting her awesome, once-in-a-lifetime job to spend more time with her…
By Tharanga Yakupitiyage UNITED NATIONS, Oct 10 2018 (IPS) – The release of a groundbreaking report has left the international community reeling over very real, intensified impacts of climate change which will hit home sooner rather than later. The Intergovernmental Panel on…
