For the Fallen: Remembrance Day 11th November 2022:
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.     _{(Laurence Binyon - 1869-1943)}

MOSCOW: France 24: 30th August 2022:
Last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, dies aged 91 ... Read more

LONDON: The Independent: 7th August 2022:
Thousands of infected blood victims to receive £100,000 compensation ‘as soon as possible’. An estimated 4,000 victims survived what has been labelled the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS which saw 2,400 die ...... Read more

HIROSHIMA: Deutsche Welle: 5th August 2022:
Japan on Saturday marked the 77th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima that took place in the final days of the Second World War. A moment of silence was observed at 8.15 am, the exact moment when a uranium bomb dropped from a US bomber detonated over the city on August 6, 1945, killing around 140,000 people and exposing many more to harmful radiation ...... Read more

UNITED STATES: Los Angeles Times: 24th June 2022:
US Supreme Court strikes down Roe v. Wade, ending women's right to abortion ... 50 years of federal protection comes to a close ...... Read more

UNITED STATES: Jacobin Magazine: 28th May 2022:
Dollar General workers have had it up to here with abusive labor practices, poverty wages and unsafe working health and safety violations Unionisation could be on the cards for yet another retailer like Amazon and Starbucks ...... Read more

FRANCE: Variety: 19th May 2022:
Vangelis, the electronic-music pioneer who won an Oscar for “Chariots of Fire” and composed such other landmark film scores as “Blade Runner,” died Tuesday, the Athens News Agency reported. He was 79. Greek media reports say he died in a French hospital while being treated for COVID-19 ...... Read more

TEHRAN: Tehran Times: 7th May 2022:
Sinn Féin stuns Ireland as UK elections show divided country ...... Read more

TEHRAN: Tehran Times: 7th May 2022:
Iran’s Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the frequent aggressions of the Israeli regime’s forces on Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, saying that the occupiers of Quds are on the verge of decline ...... Read more

TEHRAN: Tehran Times: 16th March 2022:
Blinded by oriental stereotypes, Putin is being condemned for his ‘expansionist designs’ and machismo politics. In its bloodthirsty eagerness to portray Russia as devil empire, U.S. Republican senator Lindsey Graham even openly suggested assassination of Russian President Vladimir Putin, referring to Brutus, who was involved in assassinating Roman emperor Julius Caesar ...... Read more

ISTANBUL: Daily Sabah: 22nd January 2022:
Decendants remember Greek-Turkish population exchange ......
Sunday was the 99th anniversary of the implementation of the population exchange agreement between Turkey and Greece, one of the biggest resettlements of the early 20th century and remembered with both pain and pride by descendants of the “exchanged” ...... Read more