As trade ministers from around the world continued meeting in Atlanta on Thursday for final-stretch negotiations on the corporate-friendly Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), civil society groups demonstrated on the streets in a final salvo against a deal they describe as “a wholesale auction of our rights, our freedoms, and our democracy to multinational corporations who…
The refugee chaos that is now pushing deep into Europe – dramatized by gut-wrenching photos of Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi whose body washed up on a beach in Turkey – started with the cavalier ambitions of American neocons and their liberal-interventionist sidekicks who planned to remake the Middle East and other parts of the world through…
Diplomatic talks between high-level delegations from the U.S., Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and other interested countries from across the Middle East and Europe concluded in Vienna on Friday with a resulting agreement that many are taking as a possible “breakthrough” in the effort to end the devastating civil war in Syria. Though no representatives from…
Safeguards for media workers must be strengthened to protect not only their work, but their lives, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday to mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists. More than 700 reporters and other media workers have been killed in the past decade “simply for bringing news…
Like father, like son, right? Liev Schreiber surprised us all on the 2016 Emmys red carpet and brought along a date that’s definitely one for the history books: 9-year-old son Alexander “Sasha” Pete. Rather than walk hand-in-hand with gorgeous wife Naomi Watts, the Ray Donovan actor, nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series,…
BANGKOK (AP) — China on Monday urged the U.S. military to “stop flexing muscles” in the disputed South China Sea, a point of persistent friction in a relationship both sides said was generally improving. A spokesman for the Chinese ministry of defense, Col. Wu Qian, told reporters in Bangkok that the South China Sea was…
On Nov. 17, 1989, student protesters filled the streets of Prague. It was eight days after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the same tide of freedom that had swept Berlin seemed to have come to the Czech capital. Police tried to beat back the demonstrators, hoping to tamp down the demand for freedom,…
When Aurora Lo Porto noticed an alarming escalation of racist attitudes on social media in Italy during the past two years, she felt the impulse to act. The medical student had noticed that in her once-welcoming hometown of Catania, Sicily, neighbors and acquaintances had started speaking about immigrants only through harmful stereotypes and unverified data….
Launched in 2008 with the support of the FIA Foundation and local authorities, the Itinerant Education for Road Safety programme aims at raising awareness about the risks on the road among children and students, but also adults, teachers, municipal traffic inspectors and police officers, and provides authorities with concrete tools to address road safety at…
M-Sport Ford’s Elfyn Evans has retaken the lead of the Tour de Corse, restoring a top position he briefly held in this morning’s battle with Toyota’s Ott Tänak, who finished second. Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville is close behind in third place. Friday’s afternoon pass was an identical re-run of this morning’s trio of stages, with dry…