United Nations
“There is a very positive, jubilant mood in Gaza this morning and there was overnight,” said Olga Cherevko from the UN aid coordination office, OCHA. “There were people whistling and…
News
President Trump announced on social media Wednesday evening that Hamas had agreed to release all hostages held inside Gaza “very soon,” while Israel agreed to a gradual withdrawal of its…
Human Rights
Today, with the backing of the UN, one of those former detainees, Syrian human rights defender Riyad Avlar, is working to find out what happened to those who did not…
Europe
The European Commission is moving ahead with proposals that would give Brussels sweeping new control over how Member States tax and regulate tobacco, despite significant opposition at the national level.…
FORB
On 26 August, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in the case Erikas Rutkauskas v. Lithuania that the religious freedom of a religious minister of Jehovah’s Witnesses had been…
Economy
In the first half of the year, the Employment Agency admitted 27,109 citizens from 77 non-EU countries to the Bulgarian labor market under all procedures related to the employment of…
Christianity
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew met with the President of the United States Donald J. Trump at the White House on Monday. This is the sixth American head of state with whom…
Africa
Since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iraq has been undergoing a brutal and complex restructuring of its religious and political landscape. After decades of marginalization, the Shiites, who…
Culture
89-year-old Woody Allen is not wanted in his homeland, the United States, after accusations by his stepdaughter Dylan and his ex-wife Mia Farrow. He lives and works as an exile…
Economy
Today, the first sod of the strategic Kars-Igdir-Aralık-Dilujü railway line will be laid in the eastern Turkish city of Kars. The 224-kilometer-long project is a key part of the Zangezur…
