In a message for Monday’s World Youth Skills Day, António Guterres pointed out that the world’s young people are already working to build safer and stronger communities, even though almost a quarter are not in education, employment or training. “They can make an even bigger difference for our shared future with training for the burgeoning green and digital economies, education to help break the cycle of hate speech and misinformation, tools to enhance mediation and dialogue, and so much more,” he declared. The UN chief also highlighted the link between countries spending on education, school completion rates and levels…
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Russian Foreign Minister and Council President for July, Sergey Lavrov accused the United States of exceptionalism and promoting a “rules-based order” that threatens multilateralism and international law. Washington “demands unquestioning obedience” from its allies, he said, “even to the detriment of their national interests”. “Rule America, that is the essence of the notorious rules-based order, which is a direct threat to multilateralism and international law,” he asserted. ‘Wilful’ violations of the Charter In response, US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield chided Russian “hypocrisy” in convening a meeting on multilateral cooperation while “wilfully and flagrantly violating” the UN Charter’s core tenets of territorial…
The Boeing 777 flight was heading from Amsterdam, capital of the Netherlands, to the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, when it was shot down near the Russian border, in an area controlled by pro-Russian rebels, on 17 July 2014. All 283 passengers and 15 crew members, together representing some 16 countries, were killed. The passengers included 196 Dutch nationals, according to the Government of the Netherlands. UN chief’s appeal “On the 10th anniversary of the tragic downing of the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine, the Secretary-General recalls with sadness the 298 victims who lost their lives,” the statement said.…
The “grim milestone” means that 20 per cent of the population has been forced to flee in the span of just 15 months, he added. “The majority of those displaced are inside the country – that is almost eight million human beings – and over half of those are children,” said Mr. Dujarric, speaking during his daily media briefing from UN Headquarters in New York. “Meanwhile, more than two million people have crossed into neighbouring countries, countries that often are facing their own humanitarian challenges.” Major humanitarian challenges Mr. Dujarric said the humanitarian community in Sudan is doing everything possible…
One hundred years ago the discovery of a skull in South Africa’s North West province altered our understanding of human evolution. The juvenile skull was dubbed the Taung Child by Raymond Dart, an anatomist at the University of the Witwatersrand, who first described it. In 1924 Dart could not say exactly how old it was, but he announced that it belonged to a new species which he named Australopithecus africanus. It was the first evidence that confirmed British naturalist Charles Darwin’s assertion that apes and humans shared a long-ago common ancestor and that humanity originated from Africa. Following on from…
Danish architecture studio Schmidt Hammer Lassen has adaptively reused a domed cement factory in Shanghai, China, to create a performing arts and sports venue. Now named West Bund Art Center, the factory’s central curved structure has been converted into a 300-square-metre multipurpose hall for art exhibitions, music concerts and sporting events. Schmidt Hammer Lassen has converted a cement factory in ShanghaiThe renovated building, which takes its name from its site in the West Bund cultural district, has been adapted as lightly as possible in celebration of its industrial history. Schmidt Hammer Lassen used historic documents to restore the dome’s orange-painted…
In August 1879, around 6,000 spectators lined the banks of the River Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland, to see two teenagers called Elizabeth and Minnie swim half a mile. Now, 145 years later, there’s a growing global movement to revive urban waterways – rivers, harbours and canals – as safe swimming spots for city dwellers. For my PhD, I’m investigating the social and cultural history of swimming in Glasgow, Scotland, from 1850 to 1950. I’ve discovered a fascinating connection between the rich, and often unexplored, history of swimming in urban waterways and the modern open air swimming movement. In Glasgow, as…
ARCH-ENEMIES they might have been on the hallowed turf of Croke Park on a September Sunday in 1974, but since then, a wonderful bond of friendship has built up between the Galway and Dublin football teams from that era. The joys of sport and the ups-and-downs of life led to a special presentation of a cheque to Galway Hospice for €5,000 last month from the ‘Dublin ‘70s’ footballers, after they had heard a poignant personal story a couple of months previously, from the man who captained Galway in the ’74 final. Since that Sunday of September 22 1974, in a…
Employer name: PAR Construction LLCInvestigation site: 1424 Ryan St. Lake Charles, LA 70621Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found PAR Construction paid 19 non-exempt employees straight time for overtime for hours over 40 in a workweek, denying these workers the time and one-half overtime premium required by the Fair Labor Standards Act. Back wages recovered: $37,273 in back wages …
The 2024 Paris Olympics is drawing the eyes of the world as thousands of athletes and support personnel and hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the globe converge in France. It’s not just the eyes of the world that will be watching. Artificial intelligence systems will be watching, too. Government and private companies will be using advanced AI tools and other surveillance tech to conduct pervasive and persistent surveillance before, during and after the Games. The Olympic world stage and international crowds pose increased security risks so significant that in recent years authorities and critics have described the Olympics…