How often we pray for an easy path, an easy life without problems and worries, but have we ever thought that so many of the difficult things we go through are what puts spice into our earthly lives? That what w
Thalif Deen
Inter Press Service
The ominous warnings keep coming non-stop: some of the world’s developing nations, mostly in Africa and Asia, are heading towards mass hunger and starvation.
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Indian cricket, I had heard a few years ago, was against modern technology that would reduce human error when it comes to umpiring decisions! Howzat! They would prefer the men in white coats to remain on the fi
Fabiano Maisonnave
The Associated Press
An illegal dirt road ripping through protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon is now just a few miles shy of connecting two of the worst areas of deforestation i
Fabiano Maisonnave
The Associated Press
In the Brazilian Amazon these days, it’s nearly impossible to run for office talking up the environment.
More common is a scene like this: A candidate for Co
Very often I meet people who tell me, “If I wasn’t sickly, I would have done well in life!”Or it could be, “I wish I was beautiful then I would have succeeded in whatever I put my hands too!”Or, “Do
Philip Marcelo
The Associated Press
Asa Peters marched into a thicket of Japanese knotweed in the woods of coastal Massachusetts this month and began steadily hacking the towering, dense vegetation do
Many decades ago my father, a businessman, decided to start exporting handicrafts to the USA. He went to the emporiums and shops which had the items, found out who the people were who were making it, and sent s
Review by Kevileno Sakhrie
“Each year, Ukepenuopfü weeps, her tears bathing the skies, rushing down the mountain and flooding the plains. Each year, her beloved soaks in these tears and reme
Ben Saul, University of Sydney
“Strategic ambiguity” – the policy that has underpinned the West’s defence of Taiwan for half a century or more – rests on another ambiguity: Taiw
Müzitalü Lohe,
B.A. 5th Semester, Department of English,
Modern College, Kohima
Body Shaming has become a common thing which affects the lives of many young people today. Receiving unfavourable r
We are a noisy people.I remember going down to another city for a wedding, and staying with a friend, who had given me the best room in the house. A room with a sit out on the terrace with even a little waterfa
Let me tell you my dear readers that it is easy to write about certain issues, but quite often it is difficult to practice what you preach, and one area for me was forgiveness. One day a friend of mine, heard m
As my daughter left back to her home in New York last month, my eyes were moist, was this ‘the little girl I carried?’ I wondered, and my mind went back a few years: All you fathers having daughters kn
As the global downturn continues, the crypto scam revenue for 2022 also dropped 65 per cent at $1.6 billion this year, lower than where it was through the end of July in 2021
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As the global downturn c
No, not a coach to have taught Hitler to paint better, though I do believe if he’d had one to show him how to paint houses better, he would have been the richest house painter in Austria, and the world would
Reconciliation has a practical role to play because it gives us a mindset by which we can accept our differences and move beyond our harmful belief that anyone who is not with us is the “other”
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It was a week after the funeral. She had buried her hard working accountant husband, who had painstakingly worked from morn till sundown, risen from clerk to bank manager, sent two children to college and jobs
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Rebeca Grynspan and Pamela Coke-Hamilton
Inter Press Service
We are in the toughest period the world economy has faced since the creation of the multilateral system more than three-quar
Mario Osava
Inter Press Service
The mandatory initial permit granted by Brazil’s environmental authority for the repaving of the BR-319 highway, in the heart of the Amazon jungle, intensified the alar