Sat 05 August 2023: Families in the Para region are worried they will be displaced to make way for an open-pit mining project. Para, Brazil – In Brazil’s Para region, more than 800 Indigenous families could be forced to relocate as a Canadian mining company prepares to build a massive open-pit gold mine, activists warn. The project would cover […]
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Former US president Donald Trump’s repeaded false statements about the 2020 election having been “stolen” from him eventually led supporters to attack the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. Fri 04 August 2023: Conspiracy theory beliefs and (more generally) misinformation may be groundless, but they can have a range of harmful real-world consequences, including […]
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Sat 29 July 2023: Now, don’t misunderstand me. The development of BRICS, and the potential expansion of BRICS is a good thing, or CAN be a good thing. No question about it. But we have to understand that this is not something that the global business and investment community is alarmed by or that took […]
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Mon 31 July 2023: The recent coronation of King Charles III was a high-profile example of when facial recognition technology has been used to monitor a crowd, but there are plenty of others. The technology is used by law enforcement all over the UK and other countries. It’s now common in US airports. It’s being used to monitor refugees and identify […]
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Mon 31 July 2023: Analysts say accessibility and affordability, coupled with political and economic crisis, are behind Pakistan’s ranking. Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan, the world’s fifth most populous country, has been ranked 99th out of 129 nations in a Global Hunger Index (GHI) report which described its level of hunger as “serious”. The fourth edition of the report, […]
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Sun 30 July 2023: The arrogance and ignorance of the Western media were highlighted a few days ago when a former British army officer-turned-politician was accused of making himself a “useful idiot” for the ruling Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Some of his fellow MPs have even tried to oust Tobias Ellwood, the Conservative chair of […]
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Sat 29 July 2023: Privacy is no longer a social norm, said Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in 2010, as social media took a leap to bring more private information into the public domain. But what does it mean for governments, citizens and the exercise of democracy? Donald Trump is clearly not the first leader to use […]
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Sat 29 July 2023: Decades after the end of apartheid, severe inequality persists with around 40 percent of Black South Africans unemployed. Johannesburg, South Africa – A new law to help close the racial economic gap in South Africa – which remains one of the world’s most unequal societies – has sparked public debate and seen […]
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Fri 28 July 2023: Headlines and photographs of the singer Sinéad O’Connor told us that the iconic star had died. What followed have been well-deserved eulogies, despite some glaring omissions. Sinéad was beautiful, brave and talented, and an uncompromising rebel who often railed against the Establishment and has never been forgiven by some for ripping […]
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Wed 26 July 2023: The second Russia-Africa Summit takes place in St Petersburg on 27-28 July. This comes at a time of a major geopolitical shift, which African leaders may see as offering beneficial opportunities. The previous summit, in 2019, led to the signing of 92 agreements, contracts and memoranda of understanding worth over $11 billion. Several African countries (Nigeria, […]
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