Новости за 25.01.2024

By Kalinga Seneviratne

The grand consecration of the idol of Lord Ram at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya in northern India on January 22, which was broadcast live across India and attended by over 8000 dignitaries, may well be the first step towards declaring India a “Hindu Rashtra” (Hindu Polity) —a treasured ambition of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

The symbolism that accompanied the event and Modi’s speech on the occasion should leave no doubt in peoples’ mind... Читать дальше...

The many opponents of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) coming to America with its attendant threats to liberty will be happy to hear recent comments from independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and leading Republican presidential nomination contender Donald Trump regarding the matter.

As 2024 starts, the good news is that there haven’t been any notable requests by a low-income country for comprehensive debt relief since Ghana’s, more than a year ago. Despite this, vulnerabilities remain, with high debt servicing costs a growing challenge for low-income countries.

By Kung Chan and He Jun

New energy vehicles, especially electric cars (EVs), have become a trend in the global automotive market. According to data released by the research firm EVTank, the global sales of new energy vehicles reached 14.65 million units in 2023, a year-on-year increase of 35.4%. Among them, China’s sales reached 9.495 million units, accounting for 64.8% globally, maintaining its position as the world’s number one for the ninth consecutive year. In 2023, the annual sales... Читать дальше...

Black voters feel trapped in the duopoly but other groups are giving a master class in political courage. The Abandon Biden campaign shows the way.

In the Asian theater, the islands of the Pacific Ocean serve a specific function in terms of security awareness. The US and China continue to compete for influence and to project force on these islands and island chains, which are surrounded by vast expanses of water. 

British poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, in his work A Defense of Poetry (1821), scribbles that "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer." They say that French economist Thomas Piketty was right when he took the initiative to gather empirical data spanning several hundred years that supports his central thesis that the capitalists, or owners of capital, and employers create wealth and fortune more quickly than labor or employees, thus making the socioeconomic trend "the rich-get-richer" all the... Читать дальше...

By Kerry Boyd Anderson

Technically, the process of voting to choose the candidate who will represent the Republican Party in the presidential election has only just started. However, after Donald Trump’s huge lead in last week’s caucus in Iowa and his win in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary, many Americans are wondering if the race is effectively over already.

This year’s Republican contest for selecting a presidential candidate is highly unusual, because a former president... Читать дальше...

A powerful symbol of the U.S.-led global security order is increasingly under threat by the Yemeni rebel group. The lack of a robust international response has laid bare vulnerabilities as the U.S. attempts to shore up the world's maritime routes in the aftermath of the COVID-19 disruption to supply chains.

On January 20, more than two million people joined the massive human chain organized by the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) in protest of the far-right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led central government's apathy and discrimination toward the State of Kerala. The southern state is governed by the Left Democratic Front coalition led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

The Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which boasts two million members, has joined a growing section of the U.S. labor movement in calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. SEIU is now the largest union in the country to issue such a statement. "Wherever violence, fear and hatred thrive, working people cannot," reads the statement by Mary Kay Henry, the president of SEIU.

On January 19, Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) abducted Haitham Dafallah, the chief editor of the Al-Maydan newspaper, published by the Sudanese Communist Party (SCP). The notorious paramilitary force also abducted Dafallah's brother Omar.

By Saeed Al-Batat

Yemen’s government troops fended off on Tuesday a major attack by Iran-backed Houthis on the town of Bayhan in the southern province of Shabwa, the latest in a string of Houthi military escalations around the nation.

The government’s Giants Brigades said on Wednesday that the Houthis launched an attack from three fronts from neighboring Al-Bayda province on their positions outside the town of Bayhan, resulting in heavy fighting that killed or wounded dozens of Houthis... Читать дальше...

By Jeff Seldin and Carla Babb

Iran-backed Houthi militants launched new attacks Wednesday on merchant shipping in the Gulf of Aden, just hours after the United States carried out preemptive strikes to stave off what it said was an imminent attack on shipping lanes in the Red Sea.

U.S. Central Command, which overseas U.S. forces in the Middle East, said late Wednesday that a U.S. guided missile destroyer shot down two anti-ship ballistic missiles aimed at the M/V Maersk Detroit... Читать дальше...

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi left Tehran for Ankara on Wednesday for his first state visit to Turkey as the president of Iran. 

By Kamran Chaudhry

(UCA News) -- The Pakistani government has decided that the study of Islam is no longer compulsory for non-Muslim students in Pakistan.

In a notification on Jan. 22, the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training approved a new curriculum, which makes studying Islam non-compulsory for Christian, Bahai, Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, and Zoroastrian students in the Islamic nation.

The Religious Education Curriculum 2023 for Grades 1 to Grade... Читать дальше...