2022/05/23
Anna Amalia of Prussia: Flute Sonata in F major
2022/05/16
2022/05/09
Russian envoy to Poland hit with red paint at war cemetery
2022/05/07
ICIJ publishes final batch of Pandora Papers data on more than 9,000 offshore companies, trusts and foundations
2022/05/04
Ligeti: Mysteries of the Macabre
2022/04/29
Pop Art Visionary Marisol Was All But Forgotten. Now, a New Exhibition Places Her on Equal Footing With Her Pal Andy Warhol
2022/04/25
Female artists dominate the Venice Biennale for first time
“was not a choice, but a process,’’ Alemani, a New York-based Italian curator, said this week. “I think some of the best artists today are women artists,’’ she told The Associated Press. “But also, let’s not forget, that in the long history of the Venice Biennale, the preponderance of male artists in previous editions has been astonishing.”
2022/04/06
Mariupol
2022/04/05
Satellite Images Show Bodies in Bucha for Weeks, Rebutting Moscow Claim
Civilian massacre at Borodyanka worse than Bucha
‘Motorcade of shame’: outrage over pro-Russia displays at Berlin rally
2022/04/03
Ukrainian children used as ‘human shields’
2022/03/28
Putin, the butcher
2022/03/27
Drone composition
2022/03/26
Les Chants de Milarepa
2022/03/25
Satellite data shows entire Conger ice shelf has collapsed in Antarctica
Scientists are particularly concerned about the future of the Florida-sized Thwaites glacier – also nicknamed the “doomsday glacier” – which is around 100 times larger than Larsen B and contains enough water to raise sea levels globally by more than half a metre. “The speed of the breakup of [the Conger] ice shelf reminds us that things can change quickly,”
The Butcher of Mariupol
2022/03/24
Biden warns Russia Nato will respond if Kremlin uses chemical weapons
Study finds neurons that encode the outcomes of actions
Navalny: Putin critic given nine-year jail sentence in trial branded 'sham'
2022/03/22
A project to track down and catalogue the vast wealth held outside Russia by oligarchs and key figures close to Russian President
2022/03/19
Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962
the Soviet Union shipped nuclear missiles to its ally Cuba. The US assembled a fleet of ships to mount a sea-borne invasion of the island. What the Americans did not know is that the Soviets didn't only have long-range strategic missiles. They also had smaller, tactical nuclear missiles - so-called battlefield nuclear weapons. And that Soviet military doctrine delegated first-use decision making to commanders on the ground. Had the threatened invasion gone ahead, it would have triggered a nuclear exchange. The then American Defence Secretary Robert McNamara only found out about this when the Soviet archives opened in 1991. Only then, did he understand how close the world had come to catastrophe.
2022/03/17
Quantum hair
Russia has been accused by Britain, the US, France, Albania, Ireland and Norway of war crimes in Ukraine
A fabric that “hears” your heart's sounds
2022/03/14
The IPCC’s latest report, with warnings for supply chains and food security, may be the most suspense-filled document in human history
“unique and threatened ecosystems” (bleached coral reefs and vanishing alpine glaciers) and “large-scale singular events” (the collapse of West Antarctic ice sheets, or the Amazon’s turning into savannah).
Tibet: mass detention; systematic surveillance; widespread torture
2022/03/12
Russian Scandals
Credit Suisse leak unmasks criminals, fraudsters and corrupt politicians
The Wagner Group and its activities in the Ukraine invasion
The Wagner Group is said to be used by the Russian government in conflicts where plausible deniability is called for. The use of these mercenaries - described as "ghost soldiers" - also allows Russia more secrecy about its military operations abroad and the number of losses.
Over 100,000 ghost flights have flown over our heads this winter
2022/03/11
How a network of enablers have helped Russia’s oligarchs hide their wealth abroad
Holodomor, an engineered famine that killed anywhere from 4 to 10 million people in Ukraine during a single winter
2022/03/06
In Brazil, in 2017, there were 126,230 cases of violence against children and adolescents
2022/02/26
Russia’s Syria Intervention Paved the Way for its Attack on Ukraine
2022/02/22
Why do some nations fail while others succeed?
whether or not a nation succeeds or fails depends on how the people in that society themselves organize that society
2022/02/13
Portugal: the past & the present
Portugal and Spain will become one, says Nobel author
2022/02/10
Portuguese GNR soldiers filmed themselves torturing immigrants
2022/01/28
Brazil Is Among Worst in Ranking of Countries Based on Environmental, Social and Anti-Corruption Indicators
2022/01/27
Holocaust Remembrance Day
2022/01/26
Web of corruption around Isabel dos Santos still being untangled two years after Luanda Leaks
2022/01/09
Six journalists killed in Europe in 2021, 95 more in prison
Artist Sarah Morris on Why She Started Painting Spiderwebs During Lockdown
Charting the Storm
2021/12/31
Firm action to prevent portuguese police ill-treatment and ensure that cases are effectively investigated
An investigation in Spain is revealing how the Portuguese taxpayer has been ripped off for years by overpaying for aerial support services for firefighting teams
2021/12/26
Accelerated mass loss of Himalayan glaciers since the Little Ice Age
2021/12/22
Tibetan writer, intellectual and monk, Go Sherab Gyatso, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison
2021/12/15
Sakharov Prize 2021: Parliament honours Alexei Navalny
2021/11/30
Corruption Rank in Portugal increased to 33 in 2020 from 30 in 2019
Pandora Papers journalists face government backlash for investigating financial secrecy
2021/11/07
The ‘Seikilos Epitaph’
2021/11/06
Changes in permafrost in the 21st century
2021/11/05
New Research Directly Links Western Fashion Brands to Deforestation
2021/11/01
Celebrated Brazilian classical pianist Nelson Freire has died
2021/10/25
Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed while filming Rust
2021/10/20
Total has known that burning fossil fuels was causing climate change since the 1970s
2021/10/08
Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov win Nobel peace prize
2021/10/03
The Pandora Papers
2021/09/25
The Causes of Climate Change
Scientists attribute the global warming trend observed since the mid-20th century to the human expansion of the "greenhouse effect" — warming that results when the atmosphere traps heat radiating from Earth toward space.
2021/09/24
Dza Wonpo in eastern Tibet has been the target of intensive surveillance, arbitrary arrests and searches
New evidence suggests spyware used to surveil Emirati activist Alaa Al-Siddiq
Even in death, there was little peace for Alaa Al-Siddiq. When the body of the 33-year-old Emirati activist, who died in a car accident in Oxford in June, was shown in a viewing to mourners at Regent’s Park Mosque, a number of her close friends stayed away. They wanted to avoid being seen paying their respects, for fear that the mosque was secretly being filmed, and that their association with the activist and researcher could be dangerous for themselves or their families at home in the UAE.
2021/08/26
2021/08/20
Taliban ‘set woman on fire for bad cooking’
An Afghan woman was reportedly set on fire by Taliban fighters because they were dissatisfied with her cooking amid a wave of capricious attacks as the Islamists revel in their victory. The alleged incident described by an Afghan judge comes after the group attacked people waving the Afghan flag and a Germany charity was forced to close after Islamists went door to door hunting journalists and interpreters.