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Religion is impeding our progress as a country
The Member of Parliament(MP) for Assin Central constituency, Kennedy Agyapong, has indicated a number of factors that have become a hindrance to the progress of the country. According to the…
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Europe
U.S., European Union slowdown on tariffs good news for bourbon industry
<!-- content -->LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ/Wire Services) — What could have been an even more serious hangover from former President Donald Trump’s trade wars three years ago got a hint of…
Europe
Minister calls for closer links with ‘best ally’ EU
External Relations Minister Ian Gorst. Picture: DAVID FERGUSON. (30837477) Senator Ian Gorst described the EU as ‘Jersey’s best ally’ in the current dispute over recognising historic fishing rights under the…
Europe
Providing India supplies worth over € 100 mn: EU
India will soon receive more medical support from the European Union to help loosen Covid-19’s grip on the country, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said. In an interview…
Europe
Commission expected to raise detentions of EU nationals with UK
LONDON — The European Commission will raise the recent detentions of EU nationals at U.K. airports on immigration grounds with the British government at a coming meeting, MEPs said. At least…
Christianity
Christian Finnish lawmaker who opposes same-sex marriage faces potential 6-year jail term
Finland's Prosecutor General has charged Päivi Räsänen, a seventh-term Member of the Finnish Parliament and ex-chair of the Christian Democrats party, for allegedly committing crimes regarding her opinion on marriage…
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A tangle of COVID-19 challenges for European churches and society: how do we begin to unknot them?
Maria Sonnleithner was reflecting on young people whose mental health has been at risk amid COVID-19, even as the strain on the caring adults and churches in their lives has…
Europe
Faces of WHO – Lilit Dadikyan, WHO Country Office Armenia
“Faces of WHO” is a series of interviews with some of the people working for WHO/Europe across the 53 Member States of the WHO European Region. In these interviews, WHO…
Health
What can the UN do to help Asia through its life-threatening COVID-19 surge?
The UN is at the forefront of efforts to help India extricate itself from the almost unimaginable scale of suffering its citizens are undergoing, as a result of a devastating…
Europe
EU survey highlights support for greater crisis management role at EU level
Two days ahead of the launch of the Conference on the Future of Europe, Parliament today published the results of its Eurobarometer survey on the future of Europe. Source :…