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Haiti's national police guard removed makeshift barricades made of steel fences and tree branches protesters placed to block the National Palace entrance. Image by Matiado Vilme from Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain). In August last year, the Kenyan government announced its interest in sending about 1,500 police troops to Haiti to lead international security efforts to curb gang violence. This was in response to the Haitian government's appeal for help, which was supported by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the United States. Meanwhile, major international governments including the U...
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Portraits of Russian president Vladimir Putin and North Korean president Kim Jong Il side by side during Putin's recent visit to Pyongyang. Screenshot ofYouTube video of the NewsEnd Channel. Fair use. Relations between Russia and North Korea have grown closer since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, writesthe BBC. Last week, Vladimir Putin made his first official visit to the country since 2000. State media footage showed tens of thousands of people lining the cleared streets of the capital as the leaders’ motorcade passed through. According to the state news agency, the two leaders discussed enhan...
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Press Conference of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Swiss Peace Summit. Screenshot from UATV's YouTube Channel. Fair Use. The Ukraine Peace Summit, hosted by Switzerland between June 15 and 16, concluded with a joint declaration calling for Ukraine's territorial integrity as the basis of a peace deal. Though 78 countries signed the declaration, Russia was uninvited ahead of the summit, China and many African countries were absent, Brazil, India and South Africa from the BRICS alliance, and a few other countries, including Indonesia, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia, refused to sign. They ...
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Lin Wei-Yun Górecka (林蔚昀), photo used with permission Taiwan and Poland are distant not just geographically but also culturally, yet they share a long history of bilateral cultural relations that is little known outside of the circle of researchers and experts on the subject. One of them is Lin Wei-Yun Górecka (林蔚昀), a Taiwanese literary translator of Polish literature, who is also a researcher, poet, and writer and is the first Taiwanese to have been awarded the Polish Cultural Merit Medal by the Polish Ministry of Culture. She recently released a new non-fiction book “世界之鑰” (“The Keys of the...
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Viktor and Nadiia with their granddaughter Alina at their home in Hirnyk, Donetsk region. Photo courtesy of Ryan Carter. Used with permission Sirens, shelling, tears, destruction — these are the realities of an average day in a frontline area in the East of Ukraine. Donetsk region, more than half of which is currently occupied by Russia, is shelled 1,500–2,500 times almost daily. Much of this shelling targets residential buildings and critical infrastructure, such as water and electricity supply. Still, for many leaving their homes is not an option. While many do not leave out of necessity, fo...
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Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaking to journalists from Central Asia. Screenshot from the video “Владимир Зеленский пообщался с представителями СМИ Центральной Азии. Главные темы разговора” from the Freedom. Live YouTube channel. Fair use. On May 24, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave his first interview to journalists from Central Asia in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. The interview took place at the destroyed printing house, which had been hit by a Russian missile a day earlier. Journalists and activists from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan requested Zel...
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Preparing the kava drink in Fiji. Photo from Flickr page of Dave Lonsdale. CC BY 2.0 DEED Kava (Piper methysticum) is a plant native to the Pacific islands. Its roots are dried, crushed, and mixed with water which turns it into a non-alcoholic drink with sedative and stress relieving effects. Kava is used not just in ceremonies but in the everyday lives of Pacific communities. Thanks to the Pacific diaspora community, Pacific kava has become a popular alternative health drink around the world. Meanwhile, regional leaders and communities are working to protect small farmers and secure intellect...
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Thousands of Taiwanese attended the inauguration event for Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te, in Taipei, on May 20, 2024. Photo taken by Howard Yu via Office of Taiwanese President's Flickr under CC BY 2.0 Deed. This report was written by Mercedes Hutton and originally published in Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) on May 20, 2024. An edited version is published below as part of a content partnership agreement with HKFP. Residents of Taipei largely went about their commutes as normal on May 20 morning, aside from those who found their routes blocked by road closures around the Presidential Office Buil...
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Ahead of June's vote, Euronews asks MEP candidates and EU citizens to say what their priorities would be if elected to the European Parliament. Stay tuned as Euronews will publish new episodes daily. Watch the video above to find out more.
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Screenshot from Taiwan Plus News YouTube channel. In an era where traditional diplomatic norms face challenges, Taiwan and Somaliland, two de facto states not recognized by the UN and a majority of countries, are pioneering a unique approach toward international relations. Through people-to-people diplomacy, they navigate the complexities of non-recognition, forging meaningful connections that transcend conventional state boundaries. The 1961 Vienna Convention establishes a comprehensive framework for initiating, sustaining, and concluding diplomatic relations, based on mutual consent among so...
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