Thu 30 May 2019: President Cyril Ramaphosa’s new cabinet comprises 50 percent women, a first for Africa’s second-biggest economy. South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has brought the numbers of women appointed in his new cabinet up to 50 percent a first for Africa’s second-biggest economy. “For the first time in the history of our country, […]
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Fri 24 May 2019: Hussein was arrested in December 2016 without trial or charges. His release was confirmed by his daughter. Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein has been released from detention by an Egyptian court, his daughter said on Thursday. Zahra Hussein confirmed her father’s release on social media, with a post that read: “Dad […]
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Fri 17 May 2019: The New Zealand mosque massacre in which a terrorist slaughtered 51 people is to be turned into a movie called Hello Brother, its producer told media at Cannes on Wednesday. The feature film, which follows a family of refugees that flees Afghanistan for the safety of Christchurch only to get caught up […]
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Wed 15 May 2019: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – WhatsApp said on Tuesday that a security breach on its messaging app had signs of coming from a government using surveillance technology developed by a private company, and it may have targeted human rights groups. WhatsApp, a unit of Facebook, said it had notified the U.S. Department of […]
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Wed 15 May 2019: YANGON (Reuters) – A U.N. official has urged Myanmar to grant aid workers “predictable, sustained access” to Rakhine state, where fighting between government troops and rebels has displaced nearly 33,000 people since late last year, saying lack of aid has cost lives. Ursula Mueller, a U.N. assistant secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, […]
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Fri 10 may 2019 Beautiful, fragrant, alive may not be words immediately associated with sewage. That’s where the Living Machine comes in. The waste water treatment system created in Scotland is now spreading around the world. An unassuming greenhouse sits on the outskirts of the Findhorn ecovillage in Moray, Scotland. Inside, a series of tanks are […]
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Mon 06 May 2019: Pope Francis urged European leaders on Sunday to address wealth inequality and low birth rates which he said had created an “ice curtain” between Europe’s richer and poorer states and was fuelling emigration. Francis was speaking during a two-day visit to Bulgaria, his first and the first by a pope in […]
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Sat 04 May 2019: Revamping global food production, retooling the financial sector, moving beyond GDP as a measure of progress and other “transformative changes” are needed to save Nature and ourselves, a major UN biodiversity report is set to conclude. Delegates from 130 nations wrap up week-long negotiations in Paris Saturday on the executive summary […]
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Sun 28 Apr 2019: Hong Kong (CNN Business)Arslan Hidayat was at work when the trolls attacked. “My phone was going ‘bring, bring, bring,’” said the 31-year-old English teacher. “I was like, What the hell’s going on?” A Facebook page he helps run which focuses on the Uyghur ethnic minority was being flooded by thousands of […]
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Sun 28 Apr 2019: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has a fortune of $200 billion dollars and is overseeing a regime of corruption, the US embassy in Baghdad claimed on Thursday amid heightened tensions between the two arch-rivals. “Corruption is rife in all parts of the Iranian regime, starting at the top,” a fiery post on the embassy’s official […]
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