Khaled Olomi/Seven Billion Today So the news has just broke that Russia is delivering new anti-aircraft missiles to Syria, after its plane was shot down last week. Apparently Syrian forces shot down the Russian aircraft as a mistake, as it happened during an Israeli air strike. There is really nothing we can do now, this…
Josie Le Blond, Rhino Camp Settlement, Uganda/UNHCR Private investment has brought connectivity to north-western Uganda, as well as new opportunities for refugees and locals Sudanese refugee Richard Maliamungu strolls through the dusty market. Squinting up at the midday sun, he slows and stops outside a shuttered stall. Here, in Rhino Camp Settlement, Richard hopes to…
Arafat Hasan: Germany’s Catholic Church was scheduled to confess to and apologize for thousands of sexual abuse cases against children yesterday, as the global scandal mounts escalating pressure on the Vatican. According to the report prepared by the German Bishops’ Conference, almost 3,700 minors were abused between 1946 and 2014 in Germany alone, details of…
M Humayun Kabir: The Indian media yesterday slammed ruling Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah’s reference to illegal immigrants from Bangladesh as “termites” and “vermin” saying it “coarsens discourse and deepens divides” and risks “ruining relations” with that country. The Indian media also questioned Shah’s reportedly dishing out the figure of 100 crore “illegal Bangladeshi…
Desk Report: The help desk operating with a toll-free phone number under the National Emergency Services has been plagued with unnecessary phone calls thanks to lack of public awareness, reports Daily Sun. The unnecessary calls keep the emergency helpline number — 999 — busy almost all the time, sources said. They said most of the…
Desk Report: People of a village in Gazipur’s Sreepur upazila collect herbs to earn their livings. They collect herbs from remote corners of Bhawal forest, process, and supply them to pharmaceutical companies, reports Dhaka Tribune. They say they have chosen the profession of herbal trading due to geographical location and huge demand of herbs for…
Arafat Hasan: While talking to reporters at his office at the Supreme Court, Attorney General Mahbubey Alam said that former Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha has damaged the image of the country’s judiciary with the “adverse comments” he made about the judges of the Supreme Court’s Appellate Division in his book. The comments made by…
Scott Lemieux, Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington/The Mainichi, Japan Christine Blasey Ford’s now-public allegations that she was the victim of an attempted sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh have had a striking and immediate political impact, with the Senate Judiciary Committee delaying its vote on Kavanaugh….
The Ladders/Thrive Global, California According to a new Yale study, our minds really are hardwired to forgive people We may have a dossier of evidence against a coworker’s slights and insults against us, but even with the mounting evidence, a part of us still wants to give them one more chance. Why do we keep…
The Straits Times: Disgraced television icon Bill Cosby risks being sentenced to a maximum punishment of 10 years on Tuesday after the Canadian woman whom he sexually assaulted appealed for “justice” from a US court. The frail 81-year-old — once beloved as “America’s Dad” — became the first celebrity of the #MeToo era convicted of…