Peace

Written by Shubhajit Roy | New Delhi | Updated: July 16, 2020 12:56:50 am PM Narendra Modi at the 15th India-EU (virtual) summit. (Screen grab)A day after Indian and Chinese Corps Commanders held extensive talks over disengagement of troops along the Ladakh frontier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday briefed European…

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A long-running dispute between Ethiopia and Egypt over the construction of a new mega dam on the Nile River is threatening to erupt into a war between the two countries.Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s prime minister, warned yesterday that his country is ready to mobilise “millions” of troops if necessary.Meanwhile, Egypt has…

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu and actor George Clooney are among more than 100 people who have signed an appeal for COVID-19 vaccines to be declared a global common good and made widely available. The appeal is led by the founder of the microcredit movement…

NEAR JERICHO, West Bank (Reuters) - The Israeli government faces calls from campaigners to declare sovereignty over ancient Jewish ruins on land in the occupied West Bank that Israel does not plan to annex under U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace blueprint. The annexation plan, which the government is due to…

Rebellion is growing, from Minneapolis, where demands to defund the police radiate globally from the site of George Floyd's murder, to cities nationwide where monuments to Confederate generals, colonizers and others are being torn down. Some decry this onrushing change: corrupt police unions dismiss the violence their members wreak with…

Referenda, British prime minister Margaret Thatcher once observed, "are a device for dictators and demagogues." I mention this in light of Alberta's new referendum legislation -- Bill 26, the Constitutional Referendum Amendment Act -- which our province's United Conservative Party government introduced yesterday. Thatcher, normally a hero to the UCP,…

Offering a vision of Afghanistan that goes beyond what's often depicted in the media, President Ashraf Ghani shares his thoughts on peacemaking, the true cost of war, the nation's COVID-19 response strategy and the sweeping economic and social reforms happening throughout the country. "The ultimate goal is a sovereign, democratic,…

Former SAR Chief Executive CY Leung has said no country in the world would tolerate its own people asking another country to place sanctions on it, saying national security legislation was needed to stop just that. Leung, who's now a vice chairman of Beijing's top advisory body, the CPPCC, said…

As movie theaters reopen across the United States and the world, there are lingering questions about what kinds of measures those theaters will be taking to keep staff and moviegoers safe in the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. These concerns were illustrated last week, when AMC CEO Adam Aron…