Category: World
The Earth Is Burning — And We Are Still Choosing to Let It
I have spent my life on an island. From the granite hills of Mahé, one can watch the sun rise over an ocean…
Living Longer at Age 80
Upon reaching the age of 80, men and women are living longer than ever before. These gains in longevity among octogenarians represent a…
Asia’s Energy Progress Is Great, But Must Pick Up Pace
In much of the Asia-Pacific region, energy is a success story. Electricity access has greatly increased and the use of clean cooking fuels…
Where Some See Waste, Others See Opportunity: Young Sierra Leoneans Fight Against Electronic Waste, Plastic Pollution
Growing up, Peter George, a young innovator in Bo District in Southern Region, Sierra Leone, watched people dump electronic waste near the farmland…
INDIA: ‘The Cockroach Janta Party Brings Together Everyone Who Has Been Neglected for Years’
CIVICUS discusses India’s Cockroach Janta Party movement with Harshit Singh, a young activist, poet and storyteller who took part in protests in…
Palestinian Children Deserve Education, not Ethnic Cleansing
World News are more or less currently fully occupied with the U.S. – Iran debacle and to a lesser degree the Gaza genocide,…
Why the Trump administration will have to accept a Hormuz toll
In the weeks since the U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding collapsed, Washington and Tehran have used the time to strengthen their respective positions in…
Israel is going all out to stop Turkey from getting F-35s
For the first time in years, Washington is discussing Turkey’s return to the F-35 program as a serious possibility. At the NATO summit…
US Military testing sowing chaos in civilian skies
Almost every day, the military tests various emerging technologies across the U.S., including drone and counter-drone systems and GPS jamming.To a certain extent,…
Let them eat burritos: Out of touch influencers risk all for Trump war
As the 2026 midterm elections near, polls show American voters’ top priority is the economy, including concerns that the unpopular U.S. war in…
