Books
Mississippi: Assistant principal fired over book choice
ByThe Associated Press - March 12, 2022, 9:51 PM JACKSON, Miss. -- An assistant principal in a Mississippi school district has been fired after he read a children's book to…
Culture
Gen Z features: how school is being replaced by games, gadgets and videos on TikTok
People who were born between 1997 and 2012 are called Gen Z, or "digital natives" - they have been using phones, tablets and computers since birth. This also affects how…
Europe
A life-saving journey – critical WHO supplies arrive in Ukraine
This is not an ordinary cargo, it carries life-saving medical supplies destined for Ukraine. On Saturday 5 March, just over a week following the escalation of military operations in Ukraine,…
Human Rights
Peace building through mutual recognition, justice and dialogue is the only way forward
Bashy Quraishy: Secretary General - EMISCO -European Muslim Initiative for Social Cohesion Thierry Valle: Director - CAP LC – Coordination des Associations et des Particuliers pour la Liberté de Conscience. The…
Africa
The Great Pyramid of Cheops will be studied using cosmic rays
A team of scientists will use advances in high-energy physics to scan the Great Pyramid of Cheops at Giza using cosmic ray muons. The researchers want to look deeper into…
Defense
Russia prohibits the export of over 200 products
Russia has banned the export of more than 200 products and equipment produced abroad by the end of the year as part of Moscow's response to sanctions imposed over the…
International
Life on Mercury, closer to the Sun: a very bad or brilliant idea
People have been discussing the idea of colonizing Mars for a long time and are already taking steps in this direction - after all, the Red Planet is relatively close…
Environment
The origin of domesticated horses established
An international team of researchers, including Russian ones, has established that horses were first domesticated on the territory of the modern Volga-Don region of Russia more than 4200 years ago.…
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Defense
RIA Novosti: Putin signed a law containing a number of social measures
Announcing the law, TASS noted that the social initiative aims to "protect the national interests of the country from the hostile actions of foreign countries and international organizations." Russian President…
Christianity
Public statement by the Dean of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Fribourg/Switzerland
In a public statement of March 2 and in a private letter of March 3 on the occasion of Russia's military invasion of Ukraine, I expressed, as Dean of the…