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Promoting cycling can save lives and advance health across Europe through improved air quality and increased physical activity
On World Bicycle Day, celebrated on 3 June, WHO highlights a new master plan that calls countries to acknowledge cycling as an equal mode of transport and to double the…
News
Tokyo 2020: Olympics ‘100%’ going forward – Video games president Seiko Hashimoto
The 2020 Olympic Games were postponed by one year because of the Covid-19 pandemicTokyo 2020 president Seiko Hashimoto is “100%” certain the Olympics will go ahead, but warned the Games…
Europe
Mental health in crisis
Friday (28 May 2021) United Nations human rights experts called upon the Council of Europe to withdraw a possible new legal instrument that would maintain an approach to mental health policy and…
Books
What was once private has gone public – now the book industry faces a crisis
It’s a tricky, disturbing debate, with few insiders prepared to go on the record. And as Grady points out, it raises fundamental questions. “Is the industry’s purpose to make the…
Europe
EU citizens still have broadly positive image of EU but ask for reforms
Parliament’s latest public opinion survey shows support for EU remains high, despite the pandemic, but COVID-19 impact on personal finances felt or expected by more than half of Europeans
Human Rights
U.S. Youth for Human Rights Freedom Concert to be held virtually on July 4th
While the concert will be virtual this year, Youth for Human Rights has held its iconic Freedom Concert on the steps of Lincoln Memorial one year and also on the…
Europe
For joint fish stocks: catch quotas are agreed by the European Union and Great Britain
Thursday 3 June 2021 For normal fish stocksThe European Union and Great Britain agree on fishing quotas Despite the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union, the Union and Great…
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Relating disease with religion is inhuman: Indresh Kumar
By Aashique HussainNew Delhi [India], June 3 (ANI): Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) ideologue Indresh Kumar on Wednesday said that connecting a disease with religion is inhuman and unconstitutional. This comes…
Europe
Antigua: PM Browne Engages European Parliament on Regional Development Issues
Photo: OECS Wednesday, June 2, 2021 — Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister, Hon. Gaston Browne, yesterday continued his diplomatic outreach and engagement with members of the European Parliament (MEPs) on…