Mon 24 Apr 2023: World military spending reached an all-time high of $2.24 trillion in 2022, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine fuelled a sharp jump in military spending across Europe, according to a leading defence think tank. Global spending rose for the eighth consecutive year, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said on Monday […]
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Tue 28 March 2023: Amnesty International publishes annual report highlighting the state of human rights in more than 150 countries. The invasion of Ukraine has exposed the “double standards” of human rights internationally, a new Amnesty International report has said, with the West adopting a tough response to Russia’s war of aggression while also maintaining a […]
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Mon 27 March 2023: Global societies are still feeling the effects of the more than 400-year-long transatlantic slave trade, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Monday, Anadolu Agency reported. Speaking at a commemoration ceremony marking the UN’s International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Guterres said the “evil enterprise” of […]
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Mon 20 March 2023: Children’s lives are in danger worldwide due to contaminated drinking water and a lack of sanitary infrastructure, according to UNICEF, the UN agency for children. According to a UNICEF report released in New York on Monday, more than 1,000 children under the age of five die each day from diseases brought […]
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Sharp lead pellets fired by Indian security forces from pellet gun, had hit12-year-old Moin Mushtaq. The pellets destroyed his right eye beyond repair (2 October 2016). Tue 14 March 2023: Rights group says a global Torture-Free Trade treaty is urgently needed to regulate the trade in policing equipment. Police misuse of rubber bullets and other […]
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Sun 12 March 2023: The inaugural Islamic Arts Biennale is underway in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (Biennales are large and prestigious international art exhibitions held every two years.) This important new event for the Muslim world features numerous African artists. And the biennale’s artistic director is Sumayya Vally, a South African architecture professor and principal of Counterspace design studio. A rising star in the art […]
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Sun 05 March 2023: People who share news items extensively on social media often tend to discern less over their accuracy, according to a study. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) conducted an experiment to understand a core tension between the impulse to share news and to think about whether it is true. […]
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Sat 04 March 2023: Guterres says wealthy nations should provide $500bn a year to help the most deprived states ‘trapped in vicious cycles’ boost their economies. United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has condemned rich countries and energy giants for throttling poor nations with “predatory” interest rates and crippling fuel prices. Speaking on the first day […]
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Sat 04 March 2023: A record number of countries have enforced internet shutdowns in 2022 that had a “devastating impact on human lives”, a new report has found. The digital rights group Access Now and the #KeepItOn campaign – a coalition of about 70 organisations – documented 187 blackouts following protests, active conflict, examinations, elections and political […]
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Fri 03 March 2023: More than 50% of the world’s population will be overweight or obese by 2035 without significant action, according to a new report. According to the World Obesity Federation’s 2023 atlas, 51 percent of the world’s population, or more than four billion people, will be obese or overweight within the next 12 […]
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