Police killings in T&T have increased by 86 percent this year Screenshot of a video shared via WhatsApp and broadcast in a TTT Live Online video, showing police officers returning fire against protestors in east Port of Spain, Trinidad, on June 30, 2020. On Saturday, June 27, hours after policeContinue Reading
The reasons for this appetite gain are still unknown. Nok Lek/ Shutterstock People often believe that exercise can make you hungrier, so they may therefore eat more during subsequent meals. But for the typical person, single sessions of land-based moderate to high-intensity exercise (such as running, resistance exercise and intermittentContinue Reading
Statements about foreign meddling during civil uprisings are not new. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Photo credit: Flickr/Eneas De Troya (CC BY 2.0). This story is part of our special coverage on Black Lives Matter and anti-black racism. During the first half of June, as thousands marched to support the BlackContinue Reading
The referendum is likely to extend Putin’s term in office A poster urging citizens to vote in Russia’s upcoming constitutional referendum, stressing amendments on social policy. Moscow, June 2020. Photo (c): Alexey Kovalev. Used with permission. The delayed Russian referendum on constitutional reform goes ahead this week as the country emerges fromContinue Reading
Histories written by warmongers tend to omit the war’s human costs Photo of Yugoslav People’s Army conscript from Bosnia and Herzegovina Bahrudin Kaletović, screencap from Yutel video from 1991. Source: Wikipedia, Fair Use. The interview is as haunting today as it was 29 years ago, perhaps even more so. AContinue Reading
The neighbourhood a child grows up in may influence their health for years to come by changing the activity of their genes. Sergey Bezgodov/ Shutterstock Numerous studies have shown that children who grow up in more deprived neighbourhoods tend to have worse physical health as adults compared to those raisedContinue Reading
Jan Novák’s book spends 900 pages bashing the novelist but fails to settle the debate surrounding him From left to right: Kundera’s work in Turkish, the first Kundera’s biography in Czech by Jan Novák, and Kundera’s work in Chinese. Photo by Filip Noubel, used with permission At 91, Czech-French authorContinue Reading
A dystopian police state is rising from the ashes of the city’s institutions HK government’s press conference on the national security law. Image from The Stand News. The text of the newly enacted national security law of Hong Kong (HKNSL) was first released to the public at 11:00 PM localContinue Reading
Activists cautioned that the law must now be put into practice Montenegrin activists at the 2013 SeaSide Pride in Budva, holding signs reading “I’m like you,” “For marriage equality,” “Love is love,” and “I vote for love.” Photo by LGBTQ+ Forum Progres, CC BY-NC-SA. Montenegro’s parliament has adopted a law onContinue Reading
The novel coronavirus – SARS-CoV-2 – may have been in Europe for longer than previously thought. Recent studies have suggested that it was circulating in Italy as early as December 2019. More surprisingly, researchers at the University of Barcelona found traces of the virus when testing untreated wastewater samples datedContinue Reading
