Central banks don’t want to find inflation is more stubborn than they thought and reverse course. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Inflation in the 20-nation eurozone crept lower to 2.5% in June, but remained stuck above the level favored by the European Central Bank (ECB), which is in no hurry to add more rate cuts after … Read more
Vocational schools fail to produce students with the right expertise. | Photo Credit: REUTERS After years of informal work as a farm labourer, Federico Olivieri, 29, could not believe it when a huge building site appeared next to his home in Sicily with training on offer for many specialised jobs required. The programme by Italy’s … Read more
Arouna Loure, a vocal critic of Burkina Faso’s ruling military junta, received a conscription order on September 7 last year requesting that the anaesthesiologist start a month of military service four days later. The order did not specify a date or location for the doctor to report for duty. Days later, on September 13, two … Read more
A former student makes drinks at a restaurant in Bangkok, after leaving Myanmar to avoid conscription by junta. | Photo Credit: AFP When Myanmar’s junta announced a conscription law to help crush a popular pro-democracy uprising, Khaing knew there was only one way to escape its clutches, and began planning her escape. Weeks later the … Read more
Presidential candidates Saeed Jalili, left, and Masoud Pezeshkian in Tehran. | Photo Credit: AP Over 20 years ago, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stood before a crowd at Friday prayers to denounce the U.S. for its disenchanted electorate. “It is disgraceful for a nation to have a 35% or 40% voter turnout, as happens … Read more
For those of you who don’t celebrate World UFO Day, consider this: A former US Air Force intelligence officer told Congress last summer about a government programme that retrieves and reverse engineers unidentified flying objects. The Mexican Congress held an unprecedented session in September during which supposed mummies were presented as “nonhuman beings that are … Read more
Daily Quiz | On July 3 events 1 / 5 | This movie, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, was released in American theatres on this day. It went on to become a huge hit. Which was the film? 2 / 5 | This American singer and songwriter died … Read more
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid (left) leaves after attending a press conference in Kabul on July 03, 2024, following the third Doha meeting. | Photo Credit: AFP The Taliban’s delegation to the third United Nations-led Doha meeting on increasing engagement with Afghanistan met with U.S. envoys on the sidelines and discussed the two Americans imprisoned in … Read more
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during a meeting, in Astana, Kazhakstan. | Photo Credit: PTI External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Wednesday, July 3, 2024, raised the issue of Indian nationals in the war zone and pressed for their safe return during a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergey … Read more