• EUROPE
    Germany calls for global food security alliance

    German development minister Svenja Schulze is travelling to the World Bank Group’s spring meetings in Washington with a clear mission: G7 and donor countries should form a food security alliance to tackle the global food crisis. EURACTIV Germany reports.

  • HISTORY
    21 April 2022: This day in history

    753 BC: Romulus and Remus found Rome (traditional date) 1526: First Battle of Panipat: Central Asian conqueror Babur defeats Sultan Ibrahim Lodi, establishing the Mughal Empire in India 1792: Brazilian revolutionary Tiradentes, is hanged, drawn and quartered in Rio de Janeiro 1863: Bahá’u’lláh, founder of the Bahá’í Faith, enters garden of Rivden near Baghdad. He makes his declaration as a Messenger of […]

  • OPINION
    Challenges for India’s G20 Presidency in 2023

    After the United States and Australia called for Russia to be excluded from the upcoming G20 Summit in Bali this November, there was some concern that the political pressure and the fallout from Russian aggression in Ukraine would derail Indonesia’s G20 Presidency. With Indonesian President Joko Widodo calling for caution and suggesting the venue was a gathering for […]

  • EUROPE
    Ukraine completes questionnaire for EU membership

    Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy formally submitted a completed questionnaire on EU membership to the bloc’s envoy in Kyiv on Monday (18 April) and said he believed this step would lead to his country gaining candidate status ‘within weeks’.

  • HISTORY
    20 April 2022: This day in history

    1862 First pasteurization test completed by Frenchmen Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard 1902: Marie and Pierre Curie isolate the radioactive compound radium chloride 1920: Balfour Declaration recognized, makes Palestine a British Mandate 1968: British politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial “Rivers of Blood” speech 1974: ‘The Troubles’, the Northern Ireland conflict between republican and loyalist paramilitaries, British security forces, and civil rights groups, claims its 1000th […]