by Gianni Beretta
Me duele respirar’, it hurts me to breathe. These are the last words of 15-year-old Alvaro Conrado, one of the very first victims of the student uprising that broke out in Nicaragua in April 2018, involving hundreds...
by Jonathan Power * - IDN-InDepthNews, Othernews
Lund, Sweden. 18 July 2023 (IDN) - That bar, the Red Star, on the far side of eastern Europe was closed - until the Ukraine war started. So why did the White Moon...
by By Joseph Camilleri* - Pearls and Irritations, Australian platform, Othernews
Much has been made of the creation of AUKUS and the agreement to provide Australia with eight nuclear powered submarines. Many have rightly decried Australia’s loss of independence. AUKUS,...
by Maurizio Sacchi
Visiting Port-au-Prince on 3 July, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for a "robust international force" to help the Haitian police fight criminal gangs. It was Guterres' first visit to Haiti as UN chief. "We must put Haiti...
By Ambra Visentin
The next US presidential election will be a battle between Republicans. According to polls, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is currently the most promising Republican candidate, along with former President Donald Trump. However, the gap between the two...
By Dan Collyns* – Global development
This article appeared on our partner Other-News on May 9th, 2023
The wind sweeping in from the Pacific Ocean buffets makeshift tents made of blankets and scraps of fabric, as sheltering migrants peer out, squinting...
by Ambra Visentin
Known as 'mutual death', it is the mechanism provided for in the Ecuadorian constitution that allows the president to dissolve parliament if he believes it is affecting his ability to govern. The measure stipulates that new...
By Maurizio Sacchi
Former Brazilian Head of State Dilma Rousseff (2011-2016) was elected on 24 March as the new President of the NBD (New Development Bank), the economic body of the so-called BRICS countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South...
by Gianni Beretta
While the tenth anniversary of Pope Francis' pontificate is being celebrated in Rome, in Nicaragua the events of recent days have precipitated relations between the country on the Central American isthmus and the Vatican, which had already...
by Maurizio Sacchi
Peru's chief prosecutor's office has opened an investigation into new President Dina Boluarte and members of her cabinet for the violent clashes in which at least 40 people have been killed and hundreds injured since the beginning...
