News
Although often unseen, social workers provide important care to the most vulnerable. During the pandemic, they have visited patients in their homes, been close to them in difficult times, and...
International
Following armed conflict from1991 to 1994 in Croatia and the rest of former Yugoslavia, that triggered increased radicalization and hate speech, an independent UN human rights expert urged the authorities…
Europe
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and partners, are scaling up aid along the border between the European Union and Belarus, amid worsening winter weather, which is leading to rising deaths due to hypothermia among asylum seekers stranded there.
America
The American Library Association has reported a troubling rise in organised attempts to ban – and in some cases even burn – library books. According to the ALA, the majority...
Health
Enrique Gonzalez: "You feel as if you have been buried alive" " they got on top of me, reduced me, put me on the stretcher and tied me up", SPAIN....
Europe
Urgent action is needed to avoid a repeat of tragedies like this week’s drowning of at least 27 people in the English Channel, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Thursday.
Books
Lockdown offered many frustrated writers a key to unbolt the constraints of daily routine and an opportunity to work on the novel or work of nonfiction that has been gathering...
America
MILFORD — A Waterbury man charged with stealing $200,000 in rare comic books from a Shelton storage unit rejected a plea offer in the case that would have seen him...
America
NEW YORK, Nov 23 — For Gagosian, books can be works of art like any other. That’s why the mega-gallery is launching a new imprint called Picture Books in December,...
America
Goldie: “I can’t decide what to get my brother for his birthday.” Ruth: “A book is always nice.” Goldie: “Nah. He already has a book.” — “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In,”...
