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While Trump administration is ramping up its military rhetoric, US and North Korea seem dangerously close to conflict. Nuclear
08/12/2017 16:37 GMT
Europe needs a multilateral approach in order to deal with economic migration and a clear recognition that migration from Africa will not cease but will continue to grow under the pressure of demographics and financial inequality.
23/11/2015 15:58 GMT
Since 2011, when the Syrian crisis begun, gradually developing into a civil war (nurtured by internal as well as external forces) the number of dead is estimated around 220,000. It is important to clarify that there is no way to ascertain that number. The UN ceased publishing their own estimates by 2014 as there was no way to verify the actual numbers.
10/11/2015 08:57 GMT
The country's supposed weirdness fascinates media to a point that they forget all standards of journalism when they report on North Korea. The audience used to exaggerated narratives rarely doubts the information. This is North Korea; anything can happen there.
18/05/2015 11:55 BST
North Korea (or DPRK) remains misunderstood by the outside world, partly due to the lack of access by foreign journalists and researchers but also because public opinion about the country has been shaped by overused stereotyping narratives and images. But what I experienced during those two years in DPRK, had nothing to do with the standard stereotypes.
27/03/2015 08:32 GMT
While the Greek political system is being plunged into the waters of corruption, immorality and inefficacy and Greeks are reeling under the weight of salary slashes, a rising tax burden and euro zone's highest unemployment rate, hunger striker and anarchist, Kostas Sakkas, continues to be illegally detained, amid growing fears of his deteriorating health.
08/07/2013 16:36 BST
The privatisation of state water companies around the world almost always has one common denominator: it is made under the pressure of international lenders in countries with large debt or under the pressure of multinational corporations and politicians in countries with a strong economy.
04/06/2013 13:01 BST
As Greece enters its fifth year of recession - and Greeks are reeling under the weight of salary slashes, a rising tax burden and eurozone's highest unemployment rate - life for migrants is becoming tougher amid rising racism as well as a drop in living standards.
23/04/2013 18:53 BST
As startling images of Greeks struggling to get bags of free distributed vegetables make the headlines in the international media, it's becoming evident that the crisis in the country has now overpassed vulnerable groups of people and is taking over the once thriving middle class.
07/02/2013 17:53 GMT
There is a sense of abandon, when walking in downtown Athens today. Open drug use within a view of the nation's parliament, an alarming surge in HIV infections and a total collapse of the health system and all safety nets are signs of a society that its priorities are out of balance.
06/01/2013 22:43 GMT
Although Greece has antidiscrimination laws protecting gays in employment, there are no hate crimes per se in its criminal code. Very few cases are being reported to the police because gay men and women fear further discrimination.
25/11/2012 23:28 GMT
