Illustration: Andrew Dyson. Offshore processing is a cruel method of dealing with asylum seekers. There are alternatives. The violence on Manus Island has inflamed passions. For some, it is more evidence of a cruel and illegal failure to protect refugees. For others, it is an unfortunate collateral hiccup in the essential, hard slog of safeguarding our sovereignty. Offshore processing still ... Read More »
The geographic setting of where you live is important for health in a number of ways. Daniel Pietzsch/Flickr, CC BY-NC Socioeconomic disadvantage and its impact on where we live and work (and how we get between the two), has enormous implications for health and well-being. But the picture is not as clear cut as many people assume. The built environment’s ... Read More »
Senate intelligence committee chair accuses CIA of intimidation in effort to block publication of controversial torture report Dianne Feinstein launches scathing attack on CIA ‘I have grave concerns that the CIA’s search may well have violated the separation of powers principles embodied in the United States Constitution,’ Feinstein said. Photo: Brendan Smialowski /AFP /Getty Full text of a statement made ... Read More »
“Souvenirs are perishable, fortunately, memories are not.” Susan Spano A decade ago, when I last visited the palaeontological museum of my ancestral village of Mytilinioi in Samos, I did so with the intention of viewing the stuffed carcass of the leopard immortalised in Alki Zei’s childrens classic “To Kaplani tis Vitrinas,” published in English as “Wildcat under Glass.” I also ... Read More »
Σαν ένας χαιρετισμός για τον αδελφό του μοιάζει η κίνηση αυτή του Νομπελίστα συγγραφέα, που χαιρετά τους δημοσιογράφους έξω από την κατοικία του στο Μεξικό, με αφορμή τον εορτασμό των 87ων γενεθλίων του. Ο αδελφός του Νομπελίστα συγγραφέα Γκαμπριέλ Γκαρσία Μάρκες πέθανε την Κυριακή σε ηλικία 77 ετών από την εκφυλιστική νόσο του Αλτσχάιμερ, ανακοίνωσε την Τρίτη η χήρα του, ... Read More »
Smiling Union Jack piggy banks are lined up for sale in the window of a souvenir store on Oxford Street in central London January 20, 2014. REUTERS/Andrew Winning LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Imagine you have the choice between buying your electricity from a company that has a certificate proving that it pays its UK corporation tax in a fair ... Read More »
A woman walking by a poster calling people to vote in the upcoming referendum, in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol (Reuters / Baz Ratner) The parliament of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea has adopted an independence declaration from Ukraine which is necessary for holding a March 16 referendum. “We, the members of the parliament of the Autonomous Republic of ... Read More »
The journalist was shot in Kabul A journalist with British and Swedish nationality has been killed in Afghanistan. The man, named as radio journalist Nils Horner, was shot near a busy roundabout in the Wazir Akbar Khan area of Kabul on Tuesday morning. He died on the way to hospital and the gunman escaped. The Foreign Office said it was ... Read More »
Only two option: Starvation or surrender Areas such as Yarmuk, Eastern Ghouta and Homs city become synonymous with dire living conditions and shortages of basic goods. Some survive by eating animal feed, others are reduced to living off vegetable peel. The human degradation in Syria, notably in areas besieged by the army, has reached levels unimaginable three years ago. Since ... Read More »
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